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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

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Based on early successes in animal experiments, doctors tested the vaccine on an infant whose mother had died of TB shortly after giving birth. Some fluoroquinolones — a class of antibiotics that inhibits DNA replication — may even cause psychosis.

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

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This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. “Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed. RDEB is inherited from two carrier parents.

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From melanoma survivor to front-line nurse

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1 Many times, melanoma is caused by damage to the DNA in skin cells. 1 This damage to the DNA (often called a gene mutation) can cause cancerous tumors to form in the skin. As a nursing student, Jordan understood the seriousness of the cancer having spread to her lymph nodes. . Talk to your doctor and know your status!”

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The Forgotten Pandemic

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Archaeologists have found evidence of ancient Egyptian mummies carrying the pathogen’s DNA , including some that had developed Pott’s disease — a bending of the spine brought on by TB spreading to bones. But doctors explored numerous uninformed remedies in the interim. The current lineage of M. Left) Robert Koch.