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Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

August 16, 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Renn looks at some of the pioneering companies driving the precision medicine technologies that will support this level...

COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults

August 9, 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight response in young adults, potentially distrupting many bodily processes and providing insight into 'long-COVID' symptoms. Pain response, lung function,...

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease

August 2, 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies....

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders

July 29, 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered by Alzheimer's patients. Discovery of a special gene variant, that causes astrocytes of the brain and exhausts...

Researchers reduce severity of sleep apnoea by at least 30 per cent

July 5, 2021
Imagine waking up a hundred times every night not being able to breathe! Believe it or not, data suggests this actually happens to around one and a half million adults...

Will remote clinical trials help or hinder?

May 28, 2021
With the current world focus on remote solutions, some contract services appear to benefit from place-independence. But Ellie Robertson discusses why, when looked at in greater depth, remote trials aren't...

How moths find their flame – genetics of mate attraction discovered

May 14, 2021
Biologists have discovered the gene controlling the mating preference of male European corn borer moths for the female sex pheromone. Results will provide a better understanding of why mating signals...

Learning on the fly: Computer model links insect and mammalian learning

May 7, 2021
Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone, according to a new study from the University of Sussex which shows how they may use dopamine to...

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