Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that tells the mRNA to make the inflammatory protein only when it detects …
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Long COVID Study Suggests Immune System At Root Of Symptoms
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A California panel is holding up studies on psychedelics. Some researchers want it gone
Emily Alpert Reyes | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — At the Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, scientists are eager to explore whether a psychedelic chemical found in …
Long Covid creates changes in the blood, aiding detection, reports new study
An international team of scientists has found distinct changes in the blood of people with long COVID, suggesting a potential strategy to diagnose and perhaps treat a mysterious condition that …
Google’s New AI Chatbot To Converse With Patients, Make Diagnosis Like Doctors
Home Technology Google’s New AI Chatbot To Converse With Patients, Make Diagnosis Like Doctors The AMIE has been trained on real-world datasets comprising medical reasoning, medical summarisation, and real-world clinical …
Patients with narcolepsy face a dual nightmare of medication shortages and stigma
Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times | (TNS) KFF Health News Nina Shand couldn’t stay awake. She had taken afternoon naps since she was a teenager to accommodate her “work hard, …
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
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Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could become …
A country jackpot: $10,000 cash incentive to lure GPs out bush
Doctors will be eligible for $10,000 dollars in cash incentives if they move out bush in a bid to plug chronic GP shortages in the regions. A $10,000 one-off payment …
You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
You booked this doctor’s appointment weeks in advance. You took off work, endured the trip here, filled out paperwork while a cooking show blared from a TV on the wall, …
Family beg health chiefs ‘save our baby’ as they claim medicine is expensive
The seven-month-old baby’s family are pleading for health chiefs to reverse draft guidance that said the wonder drugs are too costly for new and future patients. His father Dan said: …