The phenomenon, called parallel evolution, has only been observed in action a few times before—and this is believed to be the first observed in real-time in mammals.
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Surgeons performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine.
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In 2017, a medical center in Japan traced an outbreak of the multidrug-resistant bacteria Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) to the facility’s sinks. After a few months, in an attempt to rein in the outbreak, the medical center replaced all the sicks in the pediatric ward.
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Some of the world's deadliest bacteria seek out and feed on human blood, a newly-discovered phenomenon researchers are calling “bacterial vampirism.”
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The new method could be used to noninvasively scan the skin for unhealthy cells as well as provide rapid results on biopsies taken elsewhere in the body.
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A new study finds that Canada will not reach the original World Health Organization’s (WHO) target of eliminating HCV by 2030 and lags in comparison to other developed countries.
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In one of the largest and most accomplished citizen science projects of all time, millions of gamers playing a very popular looter-shooter video game have exponentially increased what we know about the human microbiome.
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In this study, researchers identified a variant of the fibronectin gene that reduces the odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease by preventing buildup of excess fibronectin.
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An AI-powered “digital twin” of the infant microbiome predicted changing microbial dynamics across development.
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Researchers have presented a cryptographic one-way function that works differently from today’s and will also be secure in the future.
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These findings provide insight into the development of metabolic disease in both men and women.
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It’s unknown exactly how the protein inhibits the growth of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, but the researchers hope to harness the protein’s protective abilities to create skin creams that could help prevent the disease, or to treat infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.
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Scientists have taken a major step towards developing a blood test that could identify millions of people who spread tuberculosis unknowingly.
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Last summer, three patients in the United States acquired malaria without leaving their home states of Florida, Texas and Maryland. Before this, locally acquired mosquito-borne malaria had not occurred in the U.S. since 2003.
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A simple skin biopsy test detects an abnormal form of alpha-synuclein, the pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease and the subgroup of neurodegenerative disorders known as synucleinopathies, at high positivity rates.
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