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Can a £1,300 pot of manuka honey REALLY heal you?

Can a £1,300 pot of manuka REALLY heal you? Scientists say store-bought honey’s antibacterial properties may be overestimated by the public due to a lack of rigorous controls True Honey Company’s Rare Harvest New Zealand Manuka Honey costs £1,349 Studies suggest that honey with high levels of MGO has anti-bacterial properties A study examined the antimicrobial […]

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A tailor-made molecule that ties nerve connections

Researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), UK and Japan have developed a neurologically acting protein and tested it in laboratory studies. In mice, the experimental compound ameliorated symptoms of certain neurological injuries and diseases, while on the microscopic level it was able to establish and repair connections between neurons. This proof-of-principle study […]

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Scientists say Hong Kong man got coronavirus a second time

University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in […]

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International team identifies a new regulatory pathway in bladder cancer

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with Insilico Medicine announce the publication of a new research paper titled “GULP1 regulates the NRF2-KEAP1 signaling axis in urothelial carcinoma” in Science Signaling. The KEAP1-NRF2 pathway plays a key role in cancer prevention and protective cellular responses to oxidative and electrophilic stress. In normal and premalignant tissues […]

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How we found coronavirus in a cat

Since the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the potential role of animals in catching and spreading the disease has been closely examined by scientists. This is because the virus that causes COVID-19 belongs to the family of coronaviruses that cause disease in a variety of mammals. The evidence suggests that this virus arose in bats […]