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Woman among the 1st Wake Tech grads turns 95
A major milestone is approaching for Pauline Tucker in Raleigh. Tucker was one of the first graduates at what is now known as Wake Technical Community College. She earned a diploma in the medical laboratory assistant program when she was 40-years-old.
Researchers Find Brain Biomarkers for Detecting Alzheimer's Disease
From the detection of functional brain changes that occur during Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a research team from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has located a set of biomarkers that could predict which patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a higher risk of developing dementia.
Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine
Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient disease, is the leading infectious cause of death globally, yet the world’s only licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), was developed a century ago. Given to infants via a needle placed just under the skin, BCG protects babies from a form of the disease called disseminated TB
Researchers discover process that may explain how Type 2 diabetes develops
A central question in diabetes research is why cells of the pancreas, known as beta cells, initially over-secrete insulin. The prevailing theory was that the body may be in the process of becoming “deaf” to insulin, so beta cells secrete more to compensate. But isolated beta cells still over-secrete insulin, which exposes a gap in that theory.
Storing Medical Information below the Skin's Surface
MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient's vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.
23andMe to Combine Genetic Data with Medical, Drug History
Genetic testing company 23andMe is beta testing a method for combining customers’ private health data—including clinical laboratory test results and prescription drug usage—with their genetic data to create the largest database of its kind.
Researchers study yeast genomes to uncover new ways of brewing
Jonathan Van Hamme and his team are using the microbiology research lab at TRU in Kamloops to sequence the genomes (the complete genetic information) of the yeast strains in the Belgian ale the company markets as Wild Ride.
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