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可加重老年痴呆症危险的基因被发现
10-09-25 Researchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common type of the disease. Abbreviated（缩写） MTHFD1L, a gene on chromosome（染色体） six, was identified in a ge...
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痴呆耗费1%的世界GDP
10-09-21 The costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world's gross domestic product this year at $604bn (388bn), a report says. 一项报告称，与痴呆相关的花费总计超过世界国内生产总值的1%，今年达到6040亿美元。 The World Alzheimer Repor...
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囊胞性纤维症新疗法或将问世
10-09-19 The lab of Kevin Foskett, PhD, the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has found a possible new target for fighting cystic fibrosis ( CF囊胞性纤维症 ) that could compensate for the lack of a functi...
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防止老年痴呆患者的脑部“拥堵”
10-09-10 Amyloid（淀粉的） beta () proteins, widely thought to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD), block the transport of vital cargoes（货物） inside brain cells. Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have discovered that reducing...
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口腔内某些细菌可能诱发心脏病
10-09-07 Plaque（血小板，斑块） -causing bacteria can jailbreak from the mouth into the bloodstream and increase your risk of heart attack says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham. Professor Howard Jenkinson, fr...
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帕金森病患者具有一定的认知能力
10-09-06 Researchers at Queen's University have found that people with Parkinson's disease can perform automated tasks better than people without the disease, but have significant difficulty switching from easy to hard tasks. The findings are a step towards...
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长期口服双磷酸盐会加倍患食管癌风险
10-09-03 People who take oral bisphosphonates（二磷酸盐类） for bone disease over five years may be doubling their risk of developing oesophageal（食管的） cancer (cancer of the gullet食道，咽喉 ), according to a new study published on bmj.com today. Oral bi...
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致使老年痴呆症脑内斑块形成的蛋白质被发现
10-09-02 In Alzheimer's disease, the problem is beta- amyloid（淀粉体） , a protein that accumulates in the brain and causes nerve cells to weaken and die. Drugs designed to eliminate plaques（斑块，瓷片） made of beta-amyloid have a fatal problem: they need...
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过敏性哮喘的基因根源
10-08-30 Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic（过敏的） asthma（哮喘） in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem...
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帕金森氏病治疗取得一定突破
10-08-24 Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that using specific drugs can protect nerve cells in mice from the lethal（致命的） effects of Parkinson's disease. The researchers' findings are published in the August 22 issue of Nature Medicine. The newly...
