The Telethon between first medical victories and 95% of rare diseases still without treatment

2023-12-08 07:00:00 «20 years ago we only talked about tragedies and deaths», recalls Laurence Tiennot-Herment when she took over as president of the AFM-Téléthon. Since 2018, she has been delighted “a real acceleration of results and victories“. Thanks to donations, Généthon, the association’s laboratory, has enabled revolutionary breakthroughs in the understanding and even treatment of … Read more

Latest News on AIDS Vaccine Trials and HIV Prevention Strategies in Africa

2023-12-09 23:52:23 AIDS rapid screening. (Image/Dazhi/Associated Press) There is still no vaccine to prevent AIDS. The results of an AIDS vaccine trial in Africa were announced early, but the results were disappointing. Because the vaccine is ineffective in preventing HIV, the trial has now been stopped. The study, described as a last-ditch effort led by … Read more

Emergency Services Called as Car Dives into Canal in Herstal – Search Continues for Driver

2023-12-09 15:49:21 Onlookers contacted the emergency services on Saturday, around 7:45 a.m. Several of them saw a car with a person on board diving into the canal near Boulevard Zénobe Gramme, in Herstal. Liège firefighters went to the scene but found no trace of the car or its driver, for whom the worst is to … Read more

Wasabi and Memory Improvement: The Latest Research Findings

2023-12-06 00:45:15 News Science Health 06/12/2023 A recent study showed that wasabi may be beneficial in improving cognitive abilities and memory in older adults. This research, carried out jointly by Tôhoku University and the Japanese company Kinjirushi, specializing in the production of wasabi, focused on hexaphane, one of the components of this plant, known to … Read more

Personality Traits and Dementia Risk: How Negative Traits Increase the Risk

2023-12-02 07:01:32 The higher the negative personality traits, the higher the risk of dementia. Entered 2023.12.02 16:00 Views 414 Entered 2023.12.02 16:00 Modified 2023.12.01 16:41 Views 414 People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extroversion, and positive affect were found to be less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative … Read more

new avenues of research against HIV-AIDS

2023-12-01 08:19:06 Forty years after the discovery of HIV, many battles have been won, and many hopes disappointed. Overview of the avenues explored by research to put an end to AIDS. Will it be possible to end HIV by 2030, as the UNAIDS association aims for? Forty years of research on HIV have made it … Read more

Assassination of Lawyer Claudia Van Der Stichelen: Ongoing Investigation and Search Operations Update

2023-11-30 16:19:07 Searches carried out near the victim’s home as part of the investigation into the assassination of lawyer Claudia Van Der Stichelen in Hautem-Saint-Liévin were interrupted Thursday midday. The East Flanders public prosecutor’s office confirmed that these operations did not lead to any concrete results. of videos The events took place on October 28 … Read more

Evolution of ROP Signaling and Multicellularity in Plants: Insights from Molecular Biology Research

2023-12-01 02:23:46 The move from single-celled organisms capable of photosynthesis to multicellular plants was accompanied by a change in signal processing. At the threshold of multicellularity, cells switched to polarized growth and remained together after division. Molecular biologists at the ÖAW were able to show that from this point in plant evolution – regardless of … Read more