Yousra Sharif Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel‐Aviv University, Tel‐Aviv, Israel Fareed Jumah Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel‐Aviv University, Tel‐Aviv, Israel Louis Coplan Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel‐Aviv…
Science
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Robert F. Service Dec. 6
– Dec 6, 7:21 AM
On 20 December, the editors and news writers of Science will announce their selection of the most significant scientific breakthrough of 2018. We invited you to choose from among the candidates and, with some 10,000 votes cast, the four below rose…
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Dr. Francis Collins
– Dec 11, 6:00 AM
Forty-five years ago, when I was a first-year medical student, a lecturer introduced me to a young man with sickle cell disease (SCD). Sickle cell disease is the first “molecular disease”, with its cause having been identified decades…
Medical Xpress
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Science X staff
– Dec 11, 12:55 PM
USC scientists report that a novel time-keeping mechanism within liver cells that helps sustain key organ tasks can contribute to diseases when its natural rhythm is disrupted. This dual function of the nuclear receptor protein HNF4A offers a…
Doris Tsao launched her career deciphering faces — but for a few weeks in September, she struggled to control the expression on her own. Tsao had just won a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius' award, an honour that comes with more than half…
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
– Sep 25
No, flu vaccines cannot cause flu illness. Flu vaccines given with a needle (i.e., flu shots) are currently made in two ways: the vaccine is made either with a) flu viruses that have been ‘inactivated' (killed) and that therefore are not…
Medical Xpress
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Science X staff
– Dec 12, 9:34 AM
The holiday season is a hard one for anyone watching their weight. The sights and smells of food are hard to resist. One factor in this hunger response is a hormone found in the stomach that makes us more vulnerable to tasty food smells…
