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Drugs help people forget
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Drugs help people forget

Do you have painful memories that you never want to remember? A new drug being developed can help you erase bad memories in the brain.

December 14, 2018
Testing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
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Testing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

US researchers at Cornell University in New York have conducted a first trial of gene therapy in 11 Parkinson's patients and have achieved encouraging results.

December 14, 2018
Canada studies glaucoma
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Canada studies glaucoma

A Canadian study first identified a range of factors that help prevent glaucoma, an eye disease that attacks nearly 67 million people worldwide.

December 14, 2018
Rice contains vaccine against cholera
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Rice contains vaccine against cholera

The team, led by Professor Hiroshi Kiyono, of the University of Tokyo's Department of Immunology, announced the development of a rice containing vaccine for cholera. Thi…

December 14, 2018
Cancer drugs can increase memory
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Cancer drugs can increase memory

That is the statement of researchers at the University of California Irvine (USA) in the newspaper Neuroscience last 6/6. This result opened up new opportunities for the…

December 14, 2018
Artificial blood comes from plastic
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Artificial blood comes from plastic

Researchers at the University of Sheffield (UK) announced that they have successfully prepared artificial blood from plastic molecules. This blood can be used in an emer…

December 14, 2018
Cure blindness by transplanting germ cells
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Cure blindness by transplanting germ cells

British scientists are planning to use germ cells (in the spinal cord) to cure blindness. This is good news for those patients who still think it cannot be cured. The fi…

December 14, 2018
Pesticides increase the risk of Parkinson's disease
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Pesticides increase the risk of Parkinson's disease

A team of Scottish researchers at the University of Aberdeen has demonstrated an association between exposure to pesticides and the risk of Parkinson's disease, also kno…

December 14, 2018
Apple shell against cancer
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Apple shell against cancer

According to Cornell University scientists (US), laboratory studies show that apple shells can block and destroy cancer cells. This finding may open a new way of treatin…

December 14, 2018
Detection of bone calcification control mechanism
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Detection of bone calcification control mechanism

Canadian researchers at McGill University have discovered for the first time a biological mechanism that controls calcification of bones, teeth and tissues, causing many…

December 14, 2018
Europeans are getting higher and higher
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Europeans are getting higher and higher

A study by Princeton University (USA) and Munich (Germany) has confirmed that Americans have slower growth height than Europeans.

December 14, 2018