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  • Unofficial third-party test reports chronic wasting disease in Ferry County mule deer

    Unofficial third-party test reports chronic wasting disease in Ferry County mule deer

    SPOKANE – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) received a private testing company report reflecting a positive chronic wasting disease (CWD) test result from a mule deer harvested in game management unit (GMU) 101 in Ferry…

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  • Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer

    Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer

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    All experiments conducted in this study were approved by the MIT Committee on Animal Care or the MGH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Female B6 and female NSG mice 6–10 weeks of age were used. Animals were housed at ambient…

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  • Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit

    Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit

    Generating the integrated IBD scRNA-seq atlas

    Previously published scRNA-seq datasets on CD and UC were used for integrative analysis2,9,11,13. The dataset of Smillie et al.2 was generated with colonic tissue biopsies obtained from 12 non-IBD…

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  • The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

    The Ancient Art of Nasal Rinsing Might Protect You From a Cold

    On average, the typical American contracts two to three colds per year between September and May, at an estimated cost of around $40 billion to the economy. Effective forms of treating or preventing colds have proven hard to come by, with the…

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  • How West Bedford Medical Clinic offers a glimpse of primary care’s future

    West Bedford Medical Clinic only accepts patients through the Need a Family Practice Registry. If you need a family doctor or nurse practitioner, please register at NeedAFamilyPractice.NSHealth.ca.

    When Dr. Akeem Adebayo arrived in Nova Scotia in…

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  • β-Blockers Show No Added Benefit After MI With Preserved LVEF

    β-Blockers Show No Added Benefit After MI With Preserved LVEF

    A meta-analysis of recent clinical trials evaluating β-blockers as treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) found this treatment did not provide any additional benefits…

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  • Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants

    Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants

  • Depienne, C. & Mandel, J.-L. 30 years of repeat expansion disorders: what have we learned and what are the remaining challenges? Am. J. Hum. Genet. 108, 764–785 (2021).

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  • Hundreds of thousands of young children now to be protected against chickenpox – Knowsley News

    1. Hundreds of thousands of young children now to be protected against chickenpox  Knowsley News
    2. Ignore the sceptics: with this new vaccine, chickenpox could become a thing of the past | Wes Streeting  The Guardian
    3. Changes to the childhood vaccination…

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  • Lipoprotein(a) Screening Proposed for Healthy Women

    Lipoprotein(a) Screening Proposed for Healthy Women

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    Screening for elevated levels of lipoprotein (Lp)a levels among healthy women may be warranted, say researchers after finding that extremely high levels were associated with long-term…

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