Category: Health Newsfeed
November 4, 2016 – Microbiome Specificity
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Anchor lead: Why do some people have gut bacteria that may cause cancer and others don’t? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do gut bacteria play a role in colon cancer development? Francis Giardiello, a gastroenterologist and colon cancer expert at Johns Hopkins, …
November 3, 2016 – Bad Microbiome
November 2, 2016 – Sayana Press
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Anchor lead: Can a self-administered injection help African women achieve effective family planning? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine an easy to use, inexpensive and reliable means of birth control that no one can tell if you’re using. Amy Tsui, an international …
November 1, 2016 – Parkinson’s Pathology
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Anchor lead: Could Parkinson’s disease spread from cell to cell like an infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein known by the acronym LAG3 may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease progresses in the brain, research by Ted Dawson …
October 31, 2016 – Cell Death
October 28, 2016 – Embracing Variation
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies may help us understand why some people respond to medical treatments and some don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Trying to understand why some people respond to certain medicines or treatments and others don’t is a kind of …