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The Many Faces of the Bacterial Defense System
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[02/05/2013] Even bacteria have a kind of immune system they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, were now able to show that this defense system is much more diverse than previously thought and that it comes in multiple versions. The Many Faces of the Bacterial Defense System - Read more
Conversion from Bad Fat to Good Fat
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[29/04/2013] Scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich have shown for the first time that brown and white fat cells in a living organism can be converted from one cell type to the other. Conversion from Bad Fat to Good Fat - Read more
High Treatment Costs Harming Patients
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[29/04/2013] The increasing cost of treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the United States has reached unsustainably high levels and may be leaving many patients under- or untreated because they cannot afford care, according to a study. High Treatment Costs Harming Patients - Read more
Detecting Autism from Brain Activity
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[19/04/2013] Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Detecting Autism from Brain Activity - Read more
How Alzheimer's Could Occur
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[12/04/2013] A new hypothesis has been developed by researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) on how Alzheimer's disease could occur. They analyzed the interaction of the proteins FE65 and BLM that regulate cell division. How Alzheimer's Could Occur - Read more
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