Verpleeghuis De Stelle in Oostburg neemt de komende drie weken geen nieuwe bewoners op. Dit stelt Paul Rademacher, voorzitter van de Raad van Bestuur van Woonzorg West Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, in BN De Stem.
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In order to better understand the causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, a group of scientists at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal Research Centre (CRCHUM) studied 29 genes involved in the development of motor neurons in 190 ALS patients from Quebec and France…
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SUNDAY, Jan. 30 — It may not be news to those who spend a lot of time at sea, but a new study reports that if you’re aboard a ship, looking at the horizon can help keep your body stable, researchers say.
In the study, investigators compared a group…
SUNDAY, Jan. 30 — The number of running-related injuries suffered by American youngsters aged 6 to 18 increased 34 percent between 1994 and 2007, according to a new study.
During that period, there were an estimated 225,344 such injuries treated in…
SATURDAY, Jan. 29 — An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided on Friday that electroconvulsive (also known as “electroshock”) devices should be subject to the same tough testing as other medical devices entering the…
RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: RXII), a recognized leader in RNAi-based therapeutics, announced that, as part of its collaboration with miRagen Therapeutics, Inc., positive data were generated demonstrating that RXi’s sd-rxRNA™ technology can be used, in vitro, to specifically enhance the activity of a microRNA of high interest to miRagen…
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New research provides the first detailed genetic picture of an evolutionary war between Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria and the vaccines and antibiotics used against it over recent decades. Large-scale genome sequencing reveals patterns of adaptation and the spread of a drug-resistant lineage of the S. pneumoniae bacteria. The study unmasks the genetic events by which bacteria such as S…
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In a new study, scientists at the University of Maryland and the Institut Pasteur show that bacteria evolve new abilities, such as antibiotic resistance, predominantly by acquiring genes from other bacteria…
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This finding has particular importance because several neurodevelopmental disorders have recently been linked to genetic mutations in the complex developmental cascade containing Erk and its sister proteins. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a crucial function for a key player in the development of the nervous system…
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Gene expression signature identified that can accurately assess which patients are at risk of relapse Researchers from McGill University’s Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have discovered a gene signature that can accu…
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