In total, it is estimated that about 1 billion primarily Chinese slaughter pigs each year also supply intestines for the extraction and processing of heparin.
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Sildenafil, the generic version of the drug known as Viagra, could be the long-waited remedy for a group of dogs with a rare disorder called megaesophagus.
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Researchers are helping define an evolving era in medicine, one in which messenger ribonucleic acid—mRNA—can be delivered directly to cells to fight against disease.
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A University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is developing a tool that illuminates the complex, multi-scale interplay of the immune system’s many components.
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Children who receive years of season-specific flu vaccines develop antibodies that also provide broader protection against new strains, including those capable of causing pandemics.
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A pill that releases RNA in the stomach could offer a new way to administer vaccines, or to deliver therapies for gastrointestinal disease.
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Researchers have identified where anti-tumor activity is housed on the molecule and has now used that information to simplify lankacidin as a potential starting point to engineer treatments.
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Their work sheds light on why Alzheimer’s drugs so far have been ineffective at curing or reversing the disease and identifies new targets for drug development.
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The researchers stopped the growth of scar tissue and triggered the regenerative process in African clawed frogs by enclosing the wound in a wearable bioreactor loaded with drugs, which they call the BioDome.
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It took a global pandemic, but the critical role of messenger RNA in all of life’s functions has taken center stage in the past year with the successful rollout of mRNA vaccines to combat the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
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Researchers had never compared the two treatments head-to-head in a military Veteran population to learn which one is more effective. Until now.
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Inspired by the growth of bones in the skeleton, researchers have developed a combination of materials that can morph into various shapes before hardening.
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An alternative statistical method honed and advanced by researchers can make clinical trials more reliable and trustworthy while also helping to remedy what has been called a “replicability crisis” in the scientific community.
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Using cannabis alongside other drugs may come with a significant risk of harmful drug-drug interactions, new research suggests.
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An extensive international study found that an experimental drug that has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for future treatment of a rare development disorder can also treat a variety of symptoms relating to autism, intellectual disability, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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