A new approach for creating immunity against the flu virus that produces a stronger immune reaction and protects against more strains than the current vaccines, has shown promising results in animal tests. The result is a step forward in the development of a universal flu vaccine say the researchers behind it. Every year, flu vaccine developers race against time to produce vaccines that match circulating viruses…
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In a new breakthrough to find the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have pinpointed a molecule that appears to trigger a chain reaction of protein malfunction that eventually clogs up and kills brain cells. The teams, from the University of Cambridge in the UK and Lund University in Sweden, write about their findings in a paper due to be published online first this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tuomas Knowles, one of the study leaders, runs a group based at Cambridge that studies the physical aspects of protein molecule self-assembly…
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Patients suffering from high blood pressure – the single most important risk for death worldwide – could be helped by a UK-wide clinical trial aimed at improving treatments. Clinicians have recruited the 500th patient to the trial, which is evaluating the most effective drug combinations for newly diagnosed patients. Researchers want to know whether prescribing two drugs at the start of treatment is better than the more common approach of starting patients on one drug and only introducing a second if the first is not effective enough…
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