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Medical Xpress / Skin cells may help rabies invade nerves after minor bites or scratches

While it was previously thought that keratinocytes (skin cells) were only passive conductors that allow the rabies virus to pass through, novel research reveals that these cells play a much more active role. The findings ...

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Medical Xpress / A better flu shot may be coming: How epitope targeting could widen protection

Doctors recommend getting your flu shot annually, since the specific influenza strain it targets varies from year to year. But what if the shot could be more effective while protecting against more strains? Researchers from ...

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Medical Xpress / A new depression treatment may rival electroconvulsive therapy while avoiding one of its biggest drawbacks

An international clinical trial led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and University of California San Diego School of Medicine, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, has found that magnetic ...

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Medical Xpress / Buprenorphine found to be a safe treatment for opioid addiction in pregnancy

Children born to mothers who used buprenorphine for opioid addiction during pregnancy do not have a greater risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD and autism, compared with children whose mothers took methadone, ...

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Medical Xpress / By cutting selected synapses, brain circuit 'editing' could make memory stronger and rewire how learning works

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses. These are the junctions where one neuron passes signals to another, forming the vast communication ...

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Medical Xpress / New anti-clotting medication lowers risk of stroke without added bleeding

A large international study has found that asundexian, an investigational anti-clotting medication, reduces the risk of a stroke in people who recently experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) caused by a clot ...

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Medical Xpress / A major cancer protein hijacks RNA editing, exposing a new weakness in prostate tumors

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered an unexpected role for a well-known cancer-related protein, revealing a new layer of genetic regulation that could reshape how certain cancers are treated. In a new study published ...

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Medical Xpress / Air pollution associated with increased migraine activity

Air pollution is associated with increased migraine activity, according to a study published in Neurology. Both short-term and cumulative exposure to air pollution as well as climate factors such as heat and humidity were ...

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Medical Xpress / Your brain turns faces behind you into stronger emotions, rewriting how we read social cues

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology investigated how facial expressions are perceived when a face is located behind ...

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Medical Xpress / Gut microbiome serves as key driver of bacterial infection outcomes in fatty liver disease

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine's Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health has uncovered a critical biological link explaining why individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic ...

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Medical Xpress / Genetic atlas reveals how human liver cells divide their labor

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew in the 1966 science fiction classic "Fantastic Voyage"—one of their first stops would no doubt be ...

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Medical Xpress / Ultra-processed food intake tied to sharply higher obesity risk in adolescents

Adolescents who consume more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have significantly higher odds of being overweight or obese, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the open-access journal PLOS One by ...

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