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Fourth IHR Emergency Meeting on 2024 Mpox Surge – Temporary Recommendations

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WHO Maintains Global Health Emergency Status for Mpox Amid 2024 Surge, Issues Strengthened Recommendations In response to the continuing resurgence of mpox across several regions in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on 5 June 2025.

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Yesse Technologies secures another grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to sniff out Parkinson’s disease

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The funds will be used to advance its nose-on-chip platform to detect the characteristic smell linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD). Yesse Technologies scientists recently validated the presence of a distinctive smell, arising from an oily skin secretion called sebum, in patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

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How nucleolar stress accelerates aging in mice

Drug Target Review

How has nucleolar stress (NS) been linked to age-related diseases, and what approach did researchers use to investigate its toxicity? The nucleolus (and nucleolar stress) had been previously linked to aging and age-related diseases such as cancer or degeneration.

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Precision Medicine in the Genomic Era

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Out of the millions of genetic variants present in human populations, GWAS are designed to uncover those associated with specific traits or diseases. 9 Polygenic diseases are much more common, and thousands of genetic variants with very small effects could impact their phenotype.

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Gilead Sciences Endows Its Foundation With More Than $200 Million to Support Health Justice, Community Giving and Employee Match Program

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The Gilead Foundation, established in 2005, builds on the company’s longstanding commitment to supporting underserved communities around the world. Similar to Gilead’s other philanthropic efforts, the Gilead Foundation will partner with internal and external stakeholders to inform programmatic priorities and strategies.

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Gilead Sciences Appoints Stacey Ma, PhD as Executive Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing

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She is an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow and has co-chaired many international scientific conferences and workshops related to Chemical, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) development strategies, including several co-sponsored by the U.S. Ma holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale University.

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SARS-CoV-2 viral peptide fragments cause serious inflammatory response

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For example, innate immune peptides being imitated by SARS-CoV-2 fragments have a special ability to organise double stranded RNA into structures that strongly amplify activation of the human innate immune system in autoimmune diseases. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Physical Review E.

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