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Brain Protein DeltaFosB Found to Drive Cocaine Relapse Health

Brain Protein DeltaFosB Found to Drive Cocaine Relapse

Michigan State University scientists have identified DeltaFosB as the key molecular switch that rewires the brain's reward-memory circuit during chron...

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What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Rett Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological disorder caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene that almost exclusively affects girls, stripping away language, mo...

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What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, resists most standard medications, and is caused by a single faulty g...

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LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness Health

LRG1 Protein Unmasked as Root Cause of Diabetic Blindness

Scientists at UCL have identified the protein LRG1 as the earliest trigger of diabetic retinopathy, constricting retinal blood vessels before any visi...

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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health Science

What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health

The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...

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What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive? Science

What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive?

Lazarus species are animals and plants once declared extinct that later turn up alive. Scientists explain why they vanish from the fossil record — and...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...

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Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91% Health

Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91%

The experimental drug zorevunersen has reduced seizure frequency by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome. The results of a clinical trial publis...

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Scientists Find Malaria's Fatal Weakness in ARK1 Protein Health

Scientists Find Malaria's Fatal Weakness in ARK1 Protein

An international research team has identified ARK1, a protein kinase essential for malaria parasite replication, as a promising drug target — offering...

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Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells Science

Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells

A landmark study published in Nature Communications has discovered more than 200 metabolic enzymes sitting directly on human DNA, revealing a hidden '...

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