Author: Hippocratic Post

University of Queensland partners with Moderna: The University of Queensland has been selected as one of the first launch institutions in the world to partner with biotechnology company Moderna to research and develop vaccines to tackle the world’s greatest global public health threats.The partnership, brokered by two of the University’s leading researchers Professor Mark Walker and Professor Paul Young, […]

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Ongoing ‘immune injuries’ might cause persistent breathlessness after COVID-19: Long-lasting immune activity in the airways might be the cause of persistent breathlessness following COVID-19. This is according to a new study of 38 people who were previously hospitalised with severe COVID-19. The results, published in Immunity, suggest these patients have an altered landscape of immune […]

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Leading British Doctor – Dr Hilary Jones, is backing the Stroke Association’s campaign to urge the public to get checked for ‘silent’ health conditions that can cause a deadly stroke, with new UK data suggesting that at least 13 in every 100 Londoners could be living with a ‘silent’ condition that causes deadly strokes. Further […]

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Patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease may be slipping through the net because there’s a better test that GPs can use to detect it, according to new research. Heart disease is one of the biggest killers in the UK, with heart and circulatory conditions claiming the lives of 160,000 people each year, according to […]

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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Montreal (Canada) have discovered that a micro-protein, which they named Nrs1, supports cell division and proliferation when nutrients are scarce. This result, published in PLOS Biology, sheds a new light on how evolution subtly reshapes the genomes of unicellular microorganisms, providing them with plasticity […]

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