Molecular targets for therapies that could prevent breast cancer recurrence have been identified by a group of German, Norwegian and British scientists who analyzed tumor cells that proved resistant to the original treatment. Recent advances in early detection and targeted therapy have led to a growing success in treating breast cancer upon first presentation. This […]
The Australian government has pre-purchased 300,000 courses of an experimental antiviral oral drug called molnupiravir. Interim results announced by the company, US pharmaceutical Merck, show the drug halved the number of patients who ended up in hospital due to COVID. No patient who took the drug died from the virus. But the drug isn’t yet […]
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). RNA viruses are prone to high rates of mutation. In fact, it has been reported that in SARS-CoV-2, 10−3 substitutions occur on each site of the virus every year. Study: Mutational hotspot in the SARS-CoV-2 […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Northwell Health, the largest hospital system in New York state, fired 1,400 employees on Monday for not complying with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The employees represented less than 2% of Northwell’s 76,000 employees, who are now all fully vaccinated against […]
The onset of puberty, the developmental stage at which adolescents reach sexual maturity, is known to be associated with the activity of a specific class of neurons, namely gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons. Past neuroscience research revealed that while these neurons are already activated before humans and other mammals are born, they then remain dormant until […]
Researchers have identified a potential new treatment that suppresses the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. In order to multiply, all viruses, including coronaviruses, infect cells and reprogram them to produce novel viruses. The research revealed that cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 can only produce novel coronaviruses when their metabolic pentose phosphate pathway is […]
As a young adult, Javier Evelyn didn’t always carry his epinephrine autoinjector, which dispenses the medicine he needs if he has a food allergy reaction. It wasn’t cool to carry a clunky piece of equipment, he recalled. “I did not carry my device with me at all for most of college, so I was just […]
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A new industry-academic partnership between the University of Oxford and biopharmaceutical company NuCana as found that chemotherapy drug NUC-7738, derived from a Himalayan fungus, has 40 times greater potency for killing cancer cells than its parent compound. Oxford University researchers have worked in collaboration with industry leaders NuCana to assess a novel chemotherapy drug derived […]
Here in Britain we’re lucky that the average life expectancy of both men and women is quite high. In fact, according to worldometers we take the 29th highest spot for lifespan in the world at 81.77 years – that’s just 3.52 years lower than Hong Kong which is in the top spot. But, while our […]
