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A long and ongoing look at the secrets of human longevity and healthy aging

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers participating in the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes or CIAO study will gather in Acciaroli (Pollica-Cilento) Salerno, Italy to review a decade of work and plan their next steps.

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Broad Institute and Manifold collaborate to build AI-enabled life sciences research platform to accelerate global discoveries

Broad Institute

By TK January 13, 2025 The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today announced a strategic collaboration with Manifold , a leader in research infrastructure for biomedical science, to develop a cutting-edge research platform. Founded in 2016, Manifold is an AI-powered platform accelerating biomedical research.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

Base editing, which Lius team developed in 2016, is a gene editing technique that directly converts an individual DNA base pair into a different base pair. During his doctoral research at University of California Berkeley, Liu initiated the first general effort to expand the genetic code in living cells.

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Cases of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Have Tripled in China, Posing a Global Threat

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 -- A strain of highly antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea first emerged in China in 2016, and cases of this tough-to-treat infection have tripled there in just five years, Chinese researchers report. It's a warning to the rest.

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U.S. Gender-Affirming Surgeries Nearly Tripled in 3 Years

Drugs.com

23, 2023 -- The number of Americans undergoing gender-affirming surgery is on the rise, new research reveals, almost tripling between 2016 and 2019 alone. WEDNESDAY, Aug. During that period, more than 48,000 patients -- about half of them between 19.

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You're Far Less Likely to Get an Opioid Now After Surgery

Drugs.com

doctors had already cut the amount of opioids they gave patients after surgery by 2022 to just a third of the amount given in 2016, new research shows.Much of the. MONDAY, Dec. 11, 2023 -- In response to the ongoing crisis of opioid misuse, U.S.

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Mood Disorders Have Increased Among Kids, Teens

Drugs.com

in 2016, researchers. WEDNESDAY, April 23, 2025 -- Depression and anxiety have been increasing steadily among children and teenagers in recent years, a new study says.More than 1 in 10 children (10.6%) suffered from anxiety in 2022, up from 7.1%

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