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Medical News Today
Using innovative techniques and a wide range of experiments, researchers have demonstrated that prostate cancer cells have the ability to alter their shape, thereby promoting metastasis.
Cancer is a complex beast. It is difficult to treat when it is present in one location, but when it moves to other parts of the body in a process called metastasis, it becomes even more problematic.
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What causes the body to age?
The Greek Philosopher Aristotle thought it was the heart — a “hot, dry” organ at the seat of intelligence, motion and sensation. Fast-forward a few centuries, and the brain has overthrown the heart as master of thought. But its control over bodily aging — if any — was unclear.
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Santa Fe Institute via ScienceDaily
Unlike other mosquito-borne outbreaks, Zika doubles as a sexually transmitted infection, with men retaining the virus 10 times longer in their semen than women do in their vaginal fluids. According to research, populations least likely to get tested for Zika could sustain a silent outbreak.
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City College of New York via ScienceDaily
Genes for many may be widely associated with determining certain traits and characteristics. Now a study is demonstrating that they could also influence neural motor skills. This could lead to new insights in the treatment of motor skills impairments such as cerebral palsy.
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Outbreak News Today
In a follow-up on the hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego County, California, the number of cases reported this year has climbed to 312, including 10 fatalities, according to latest health department data.
Of the cases, nearly seven out of 10 patients required hospitalization for their illness.
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Infection Control Today
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded more than $200 million through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases cooperative agreement to help states, cities, counties and territories prevent, detect, respond to and control the growing threats posed by emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. State programs are the foundation of the U.S. public health system and are integral to the nation’s efforts to combat infectious disease threats.
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University of Adelaide via Lab Manager
University of Adelaide researchers have shown that it may be possible to eradicate populations of invasive pest animals through the inheritance of a negative gene — a technique known as gene drive. Invasive pests cost agricultural industries around the world hundreds of millions of dollars and are a major threat to biodiversity and the environment.
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DARK Daily
Research findings indicate how a new system-in-a-box device that phlebotomists and clinical laboratories would use when drawing blood could reduce contamination of blood cultures and lower patients’ use of antibiotics. In a study involving 1,800 blood cultures done on 904 patients at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, use of the device was attributed to an 88 percent reduction in the blood culture contamination rate.
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HealthDay News
A new DNA blood test can catch a rare but deadly form of cancer that occurs in the sinuses, researchers report.
The test, which looks for DNA evidence of Epstein-Barr virus in blood samples, was 97 percent accurate at detecting the presence of nasopharyngeal cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial.
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American Chemical Society via Infection Control Today
As antibiotic resistance rises and fears over superbugs grow, scientists are looking for new treatment options. One area of focus is antimicrobial peptides, which could someday be an alternative to currently prescribed antibiotics, many of which are becoming increasingly useless against some bacteria. Now, a team reports in ACS Chemical Biology that they have improved the anti-microbial — and anti-cancer — properties of an anti-microbial peptides from a spider.
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