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Scientists have transformed RNA, a biological molecule present in all living cells, into a biosensor that can detect tiny chemicals relevant to human health. Research by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists centers on RNA, a nucleic acid that plays a crucial role in most cellular processes. Their work is expected to have applications in the surveillance of environmental chemicals and, ultimately, the diagnosis of critical diseases including neurological and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

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Researchers at WashU Medicine identified a direct connection between cancer-related inflammation and the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer. In a mouse study they describe a brain pathway that starts with neurons (labeled in green, above) that sense inflammation signals, and the researchers were able to treat the loss of motivation by blocking this pathway.

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Scientists at St. Jude Children鈥檚 Research Hospital explored selectively blocking the CYP3A4 protein responsible for breaking down large swaths of approved drugs, providing a way to improve drug efficacy.

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One shoulder has four separate joints, packed with muscles, that allow movement of the arm in eight different major ways, giving the most degrees of freedom of any joint in the body. But the same complexity that allows such motion also presents opportunities for pain when something goes wrong. A Tufts University School of Medicine expert served as the lead author on two new papers about efforts to help coalesce this information and make it easier for everyone to understand what this unique joint requires to stay healthy.

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Proper nutrition is crucial for enhancing athletic performance, supporting recovery and overall health. Now, a new stud...

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Nine University of West Florida sport management students recently had the opportunity of a lifetime, traveling to San Antonio, Texas, to work the NCAA Men鈥檚 Basketball Final Four. The students expe...

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The Focused Ultrasound Foundation today announced a historic achievement for the field of noninvasive medicine: more than one million patients worldwide have now been treated with focused ultrasound.

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A new genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) has been uncovered by an international team of researchers. The discovery, published in Nature Genetics [10 Apr] and led by the University of Bristol, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and KU Leven in Belgium, offers diagnostic certainty and hope to potentially thousands of families worldwide who have long been searching for answers.

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Scientists have developed a new fabrication technique that could improve noise robustness in superconducting qubits, a key technology to enabling large-scale quantum computers.

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Cleveland Clinic virology researchers have found that a specific protein modification to the immune protein MDA5 is key to how our bodies detect and respond to viruses and viral replication. The PNAS publication explains how two protein modifications activate MDA5, an essential immune protein, to sense invaders, limit viral replication and fight infections. This process is key to preventing outcomes like virus-induced heart inflammation. This most recent publication builds on a body of work from the lab of Michaela Gack, PhD, scientific director of Cleveland Clinic鈥檚 Florida Research & Innovation Center, that seeks to improve our understanding of how our bodies detect viruses.