Plant virus treatment shows promise in fighting metastatic cancers in mice
An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad…
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STAT+: Late-stage results set up Cytokinetics heart drug to compete with Bristol
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA dithering on pharma patents, WHO pandemic talks, and more
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We now know Tome’s gene editing target
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STAT+: FDA is criticized for taking a ‘ministerial’ role in sorting out some pharma patents
When it comes to a crucial controversy over pharmaceutical patents, the FDA has been MIA….
After decades fighting Big Tobacco, Cliff Douglas now leads a foundation funded by his former adversaries
“Does it trouble you to answer that question?” one of New York’s highest paid attorneys…
Opinion: Congress: Close Medicare’s dangerous gaps in coverage for addiction treatment
While many people immediately picture young adults when thinking about the current addiction and overdose…
Opinion: A dose of reality on adult vaccinations
The number of children who received their routine vaccinations declined during the pandemic, so public…
CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread
Reluctance among dairy farmers to report H5N1 bird flu outbreaks within their herds or allow…
STAT+: Can AI build custom ‘n-of-1’ drugs faster? Maybe not yet, new case study suggests
Two years ago, Yiwei Shi was searching desperately for someone to build a drug for…
Beyond antibiotics: Exploring alternative treatments for recurrent UTIs – The Times of India
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STAT+: First recipient of kidney transplant from genetically engineered pig has died, family says
Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, has…
Women warned alternative treatments could risk health – BBC.com
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Opinion: First Opinion essay on colorectal cancer screening: letter and response
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Cellular activity hints that recycling is in our DNA
Introns are perhaps one of our genome’s biggest mysteries. They are DNA sequences that interrupt…
Melanoma in darker skin tones
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Clues from deep magma reservoirs could improve volcanic eruption forecasts
New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth’s surface could help save lives by…
US Navy Growler jet noise over Whidbey Island could impact 74,000 people’s health
As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at…
ERR-gamma ‘trains’ stomach stem cells to become acid-producing cells
Researchers have identified molecular and genetic pathways that direct the generation and maturation of parietal…
Federal officials will fund farms’ protective measures to contain H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — The federal government will provide livestock farms as much as $28,000 apiece to…
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AI systems are already skilled at deceiving and manipulating humans
Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that…
ONe novae stellar explosion may be source of our phosphorus
Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the…
How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world (without being thrown into chaos)
Many neurons exhibit ‘mixed selectivity,’ meaning they can integrate multiple inputs and participate in multiple…
STAT+: Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’
About 10 years ago, a small piece of human brain arrived in the lab of…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Sanofi licensing Novavax’s Covid shot, Moderna’s RSV vaccine, and more
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STAT+: CRISPR edits fail to cure HIV patients in early test
BALTIMORE — An ambitious effort to cure HIV with CRISPR genome editing fell short in…
The public wants Medicare to cover obesity drugs
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STAT+: After its last deal fell through, a rare disease therapy gets a second chance with Shionogi
After seeing its last deal go bust in the face of regulatory scrutiny, Maze Therapeutics…
STAT+: Sanofi enters vaccine licensing deal with Novavax, giving beleaguered biotech a lifeline
LONDON — Novavax, the beleaguered maker of a Covid-19 vaccine, just got a boost of…
Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week that dairy and…
STAT+: No, alcohol isn’t good for you. Will new dietary guidelines be shaped more by health or industry interests?
In 1995, when Marion Nestle was on the committee drafting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,…
Opinion: What nurses really want: sufficient staffing for patient care
Pizza. Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. But…
Opinion: When heat threatens, use the wet bulb globe temperature to keep workers safe
A 30-year-old farm worker in North Carolina died last September on a day that was…
Transforming common soft magnets into a next-generation thermoelectric conversion materials by 3 minutes heat treatment
A research team has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft…
GPS-like system shows promise as HIV vaccine strategy to elicit critical antibodies
A team has developed a vaccine approach that works like a GPS, guiding the immune…
Discrimination may accelerate aging
Discrimination may speed up the biological processes of aging, according to a new study. Read…
Good vibrations: New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices
What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can, but better? A new class…
‘Smart’ contact lenses could someday enable wireless glaucoma detection
Most people with early-stage glaucoma don’t know they have it, even though early treatment is…
New machine learning algorithm promises advances in computing
Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine…
New ‘forever chemical’ cleanup strategy discovered
A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known…
Squeezed by neighbors, planet glows with molten lava
Astrophysicists discovered that an exoplanet is covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from…
Transformation of ocean management is underway
Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption…
A fragment of human brain, mapped in exquisite detail
Researchers have created the largest synaptic-resolution, 3D reconstruction of a piece of human brain to…
Listen: Everything you need to know about H5N1 bird flu
What happens when a common virus jumps from birds to cows? And should we be…
Ocean biodiversity work needs improvement
An international collaboration says the world’s largest marine protected areas aren’t collectively delivering the biodiversity…
Take cover! Survey shows tornado warnings widely misunderstood
A study showed that about half of those surveyed in the mid-South could not accurately…
New treatment could reverse hair loss caused by an autoimmune skin disease
Researchers developed a potential new treatment for alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair…
An entirely new COVID-related syndrome
An international collaboration recently uncovered a previously overlooked COVID-related syndrome: MDA5-autoimmunity and Interstitial Pneumonitis Contemporaneous…
Improved wildfire smoke model identifies areas for public health intervention
The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States…