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  • Epilepsy is more common in patients with frontotemporal dementia than expected

    Epilepsy is more common in patients with frontotemporal dementia than expected

    According to a recent study, in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), epileptic seizures are significantly more common than previously known. The discovery deepens understanding of the symptoms of this memory disorder and emphasises the importance of taking epileptic seizures into account in the treatment and monitoring of patients.

    Coordinated by Neurocenter Finland, this major project by the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu examined the prevalence of epilepsy…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • New mRNA vaccine is more effective and less costly to develop

    New mRNA vaccine is more effective and less costly to develop

    A new type of mRNA vaccine is more scalable and adaptable to continuously evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H5N1, according to a study by researchers at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and the Pennsylvania State University. The study was published today in npj Vaccines.

    Though highly effective at inducing an immune response, current mRNA vaccines, such as those used to prevent COVID-19, present two significant challenges: the high amount of mRNA needed to produce them…

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  • Two plant species invent the same chemically complex and medically interesting substance

    Two plant species invent the same chemically complex and medically interesting substance

    The elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway of ipecacuanha alkaloids shows how two distantly related plant species could develop the same substance independently.

    Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many plant natural products are ancestry-specific and occur only in certain plant families, sometimes only in a single species. Interestingly, however, the same substances can sometimes be found in distantly related species. In most cases, however, only the end product is…

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  • Clinical research on psychedelics gets a boost from new study

    Clinical research on psychedelics gets a boost from new study

    As psychedelics gain traction as potential treatments for mental health disorders, an international study led by researchers at McGill University, Imperial College London, and the University of Exeter stands to improve the rigour and reliability of clinical research.

    Up to now, psychedelic clinical trials have had what has been widely acknowledged as a critical flaw: the failure to properly account for how a person’s mindset and surroundings influence the effects of psychedelics such as MDMA…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Large-scale immunity profiling grants insights into flu virus evolution

    Large-scale immunity profiling grants insights into flu virus evolution

    A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population.

    The work, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, uses a high-throughput sequencing-based assay to quantify antibody immunity against circulating H3N2 flu strains in both children and adults. The editors describe this as an important study that advances our understanding of population-level immunity, and say that the strength…

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  • De-escalating to escalate: Ceasefire is no longer on the horizon in Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war

    De-escalating to escalate: Ceasefire is no longer on the horizon in Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war

    For a while now, the Ukraine-Russia war has been compared by various pundits to the Korean War of the early 1950s. That conflict, which split the Korean Peninsula in two, ended without a clear victor. Hostilities ceased with the signing of an armistice in 1953, but no formal peace treaty ever followed. The Korean Peninsula remains technically at war, suspended in an uneasy truce and still divided along the 38th parallel.

    Could Ukraine be heading toward a similar outcome? In many respects,…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • The Rwanda-DRC peace deal must include the voices of the voiceless | Opinions

    The Rwanda-DRC peace deal must include the voices of the voiceless | Opinions

    More than three decades after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda plunged the African Great Lakes region into unprecedented turmoil, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to struggle in establishing collaborative and neighbourly relations for the collective benefit of their peoples.

    Following the genocide, in which approximately 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans – including some members of the defeated Rwandan…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • The Golan: A Battle For Power | Agriculture

    The Golan: A Battle For Power | Agriculture

    Syrian farmers in the occupied Golan Heights oppose an Israeli energy company’s plans for wind turbines on their land.

    A battle over land, natural resources and wind energy in the occupied Golan Heights – a microcosm of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict.

    This documentary is about a group of Syrian fruit farmers taking on an Israeli energy company over the right to build wind turbines on land they’ve been farming for several centuries.

    The farmers are Syrian Druze from the northern Golan,…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Spain Moves to ‘Reduce to Zero’ Military Ties with Israel, Cancels Missile Deal

    Spain Moves to ‘Reduce to Zero’ Military Ties with Israel, Cancels Missile Deal

    Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. (Photo: European Parliament, via Wikimedia Commons)

    The decision, confirmed by Defense Ministry sources to Spanish news agency EFE, is part of Madrid’s broader effort to “reduce to zero” its technological dependency on Israel over its military operations in Gaza.

    Spain’s Defense Ministry has ordered the suspension of an Israeli missile manufacturing license, effectively canceling a €285 million ($310 million) contract for the delivery of 168 Spike…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Dead and wounded in Israeli bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip

    Dead and wounded in Israeli bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip

    A number of citizens were killed and others injured on …

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