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Antithrombotic therapy is prescribed to prevent thrombotic (blood clotting inside a blood vessel) events but the treatment also increases the likelihood of experiencing a bleeding event, which can be extremely serious if it occurs in a vital organ.

A new approach that targets the cellular machinery that viruses need to reproduce – rather than the virus itself – appears to stem replication of a common childhood pathogen known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study.

More than a year-and-a-half after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific community is still feeling the effects of the vastly disruptive event -; and may for many years to come.

Specialized cells that conduct electricity to keep the heart beating have a previously unrecognized ability to regenerate in the days after birth, a new study in mice by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

Typ-2-Diabetes gilt als Erkrankung, die chronisch voranschreitet. Tatsächlich aber zeigen verschiedene Untersuchungen, dass eine Normalisierung des Zuckerstoffwechsels bei den Betroffenen möglich ist.

Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different "program" that makes them less effective than immune cells in patients whose cancers respond to these immune treatments, suggests a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Our bodies can fine-tune the immune response to an infection and make it proportional to the threat at hand.

Und Vegetarier sind depressiver als Fleischesser

Rasch zum Fussballspiel oder in den Club? Für Ungeimpfte und Ungenesene derzeit nur mit einem Zertifikat möglich. Antigen-Schnelltests sind laut einer Studie aber zu unzuverlässig.

Der Asteroid "Bennu" ist auf Kollisionskurs mit der Erde. Eine Nasa-Mission zeigte nun, dass ein Einschlag wahrscheinlicher ist als gedacht. Grund zur Sorge gibt es aber laut Experten nicht.