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How Will Health-Tracking Technology Affect The Quality Of Care In The Next Ten Years?

Booking an appointment long in advance, getting ready to visit the doctor, taking all the necessary medical files, driving the distance, is now...

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Scientists Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant In Human Patient

The first attempt to transplant a pig kidney into a human has been successfully carried out by surgeons in the United States. ...

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Proteins in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Support Precision Medicine

Small molecule antagonists of pathogenic mutant proteins are now authorized for use in the diagnosis of AML....

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Why Drug Companies Should Open Their Trial Vaults Now

Since 2013, YODA, a Yale University-led initiative, has disseminated clinical trial information from Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic to outside scientists....

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A One-Stop-Shop for Disease-Specific Human Stem Cells Allows Scientists to Focus on Research

The EBiSC was formed to streamline the reuse of iPSC lines for research projects in 2014 so that researchers wouldn't have to create...

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Inflammation Clock Can Reveal the Body’s Biological Age

A new kind of age “clock” can assess chronic inflammation and predict whether someone is at risk of developing age-related disorders such as...

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Outrage as Chinese Scientists Claim To Edit Babies’ Genes

In a clinical trial shrouded in mystery, a team of scientists led by He Jiankui used CRISPR to alter the genome of human...

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Is Preventative Healthcare the Key to a Long Life?

When it comes to healthcare, most individuals react rather than act proactively. However, preventative care could prevent you getting sick in the first...

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Centenarians Have a Distinct Microbiome That May Help Support Longevity

Microbes identified in fecal samples from 160 Japanese centenarians with an average age of 107 were analyzed by a team of researchers from...

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Anti-aging – Causes, Prevention and More!

Anti-aging has taken on a variety of distinct meanings and implications, each of which is promoted by a different organisation or informal coalition...