Health Blogs
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Structure of Control Element Behind Protein Misfolding Identified
As important as protein folding is to virtually all biological systems, the mechanisms behind this process have remained a mystery. The fog, however, is being lifted.
A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), using the exceptionally bright and powerful x-ray beams [...]
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Scripps Florida Team Awarded Nearly $1.5 Million to Develop Potent New HIV Inhibitors
A Scripps Florida team has been awarded nearly $1.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to identify and develop novel potent inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
A. Donny Strosberg, a professor on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute, is the principal investigator for the new [...]
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Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover Inflammatory Circuit That Triggers Breast Cancer
Although inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the progression of cancer, little is known about its role when normal cells become tumor cells. Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shed new light on exactly how the activation [...]
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World’s First Drug Development Company Based on Crowdsourcing
Transparency Life Sciences launched with the introduction of a prototype of a crowdsourced web platform that allows patients, physicians, researchers and other stakeholders to contribute to the design of clinical studies. The goal of the new company is to develop therapies for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising [...]
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New blood types revealed
You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you’re Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these.
Yet this knowledge could be “a matter [...]
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A little poker fun
We write about finding the balance between doing what you like and what you need to do to survive. Sometimes what you need to do takes over and we forget to have a little fun. Fun is considered frivolous or a waste of time. We know that fun is needed [...]
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Kale without fail
Number of comments: 2Nacho ordinary kale chips (see what I did there?).
My first attempt at making kale chips was a disaster. I think I baked them too long and at too high a temperature, and they came out like a pile of late autumn leaves. They would have been more enjoyable [...]
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YesVideo
We are excited to announce that YesVideo is hosting a Twitter Party on Tuesday, February 28th at 8:00 PM CST. [...] -
V-Log Moms – An experience in your past that shaped you…
V-LogMoms - An experience in your past that shaped you... [...]
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Science!
Number of comments: 0Every weekday morning, I help put together the webpage for Health News Florida, a nonprofit website that compiles health-related stories from around the state and also features original reporting.
Tuesday morning, I was trolling for consumer stories and found this headline:
Total rethink needed on dieting: scientists
Whaa?
To sum up, researchers at [...]
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