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Olivia Francis dreamt of dancing in the famous Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, but just a year after she started dance lessons, she was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition. The nine-year-old from Oklahoma, USA, was diagnosed with Friedreich’s ataxia –…

Controlling the first large North American mpox outbreak required early, sustained, and culturally sensitive engagement with affected communities, along with a timely shift toward preexposure prevention (PrEP) for those at risk, according to a report published today in Annals of…

‘Mummy, there’s a ghost in my tummy’: The childish words that told little Dylan-James’s mother his cancer was back. Now she makes an impassioned plea for readers to back our campaign to save children like him The day her three-year-old…

Rice University synthetic biologists have developed a new way to study a sensory system that salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens use to sicken millions of people each year. In pathogenic bacteria, the sensor PhoPQ turns on a cluster of…

Youth sports team participation is associated with increased odds of electronic vapor product (EVP) use, according to a study published online Dec. 12 in Pediatrics. Eli Rapoport, from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City,…

Last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released a report of mortality statistics. It showed that from January to July 2022, there were 17% more deaths (16,375) than the average expected for these months. This historical average is based…

NEW ORLEANS — A new Italian study yields more evidence that stem-cell transplant patients need not lose their appetites along with their immune systems. Low-bacterial, gruel-like diets, once the mainstay of immunity-lowering surgeries, don’t actually provide any protection against infections, researchers…

Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought…

Young Swiss women and girls were hospitalized at an “unprecedented” rate last year for mental health issues, the national statistics office said Monday, indicating the pandemic took a particularly heavy toll on this group. For the first time, mental disorders…

A patient with relapsed T cell leukemia has been given base-edited T-cells in a world-first use of a base-edited cell therapy, in a 'bench-to-bedside' collaboration between UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). The patient, 13-year-old Alyssa from…