Repurposing mifepristone: new hope for anti-aging treatments
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Mifepristone, which is also used to treat Cushing's disease and certain cancers, has caught the attention of scientists exploring ways to promote longer, healthier lives.
Expanding access to weight-loss drugs could save thousands of lives a year
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The findings highlight the critical need to remove existing barriers that are hindering people's access to effective weight loss treatments and impeding public health efforts to address the national obesity crisis, the researchers said.
World-first clinical trial for treating spinal cord injury using olfactory cell nerve bridges
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Griffith University researcher, Professor James St John, said olfactory ensheathing cells are the specialised cells within the olfactory (sense of smell) nerve within the nose that have numerous therapeutic properties for repairing and regenerating nerves.
Drug discovery within the patient
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Specific type of DNA could be a target of future cancer therapies
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Using data available from The Cancer Genome Atlas, the International Cancer Genomics Consortium, the Hartwig Medical Foundation, and the Glioma Longitudinal Analysis Consortium, the researchers considered more than 8,000 tumor samples, divided between newly diagnosed untreated tumors and those that had been through previous treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, and others.
Gene therapy automatically converts omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in the body
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Key molecule in wound healing identified
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The study focuses on the molecular processes in wound healing that regulate the transition from inflammation - a critical defence mechanism - to a proliferative phase, where new cells form to repair damaged tissue.
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