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Study raises Safety Concerns About Experimental Cancer Approach: Widespread Vascular Tumors, Massive Hemorrhage and Death Reported in Mice A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has raised safety concerns about an investigational approach to treating cancer. Washington University in St. Louis … Anti-Notch therapies are being evaluated […]
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New survey device gets better information on teenage sexual behavior Brown University sociologists have developed a low-cost, easy-to-use device that is helping researchers in Ethiopia obtain more reliable answers when they ask teenagers about stigmatized sexual behaviors. Their findings are published in the December issue of Studies in Family Planning. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — […]
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Researchers report two advances against preeclampsia Preeclampsia, a sudden-onset and sometimes fatal prenatal disease, may strike up to 8 percent of pregnant women worldwide. Researchers have now developed a dependable pregnancy-specific animal model for laboratory testing and may have a predictive test that would allow early intervention. The studies are reported in The American Journal […]
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Brown licenses potential muscular dystrophy treatment to Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects only young boys, who begin to show symptoms when they are of preschool age. The disease is invariably fatal. Justin Fallon has led a research team that has developed a novel therapy in mice. Brown University has licensed the technology to Tivorsan […]
Computer-based video analysis boosts data gathering in behavioral studies Thomas Serre, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown, and colleagues at MIT and Caltech have developed a computer-based system that can learn how to identify behaviors of interest and then analyze many hours of video. The team describes the system in Nature […]
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Study: Mining Is a Major Driver of Sub-Saharan Africa’s TB Epidemic A study by Mark Lurie of Brown University and an international team of researchers has developed the first statistical evidence linking mining to high rates of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. The exponential rise in TB in the region had been attributed to higher rates […]
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