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Zebrafish offers hope for spinal cord repair: US study
The Zebrafish, which can completely regenerate its severed spinal cord, might hold promise for research into tissue repair in humans, researchers said Thursday. Scientists are looking at one protein in particular that is key to this accomplishment in the fish, the researchers said. “This is one of nature's most remarkable feats of regeneration,” said the…
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Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on cell ‘recycling’
Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for his work on autophagy — a process whereby cells “eat themselves” — which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes. Autophagy is a fundamental process in cell physiology with major implications for human health and disease. The process is essential for the orderly degradation and recycling of damaged…
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Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel Medicine Prize for work on cell ‘recycling’
Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for his work on autophagy — a process whereby cells “eat themselves” — which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes. Autophagy is a fundamental process in cell physiology with major implications for human health and disease. The process is essential for the orderly degradation and recycling of damaged…
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Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process
(Story repeats, adding reference to Sunday's canonization.) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta marked the culmination of a process – sometimes called “the saint-making machine” – that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during…
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After lifetime with the poor, Mother Teresa speeds to sainthood
By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after her death. A Nobel peace prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most influential women in…
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Nearly half of Zika cases in Singapore are foreigners: media
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s ministry of health said of the 115 people who tested positive for Zika virus, 57 were foreigners who live and work in the city-state, Channel NewsAsia reported. It said most had displayed mild symptoms and had recovered. Most of the foreigners infected were from China, followed by India and Bangladesh, it…
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Novo Nordisk’s veteran CEO Lars Rebien Sorensen to step down
By Annabella PultzNielsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk's long-serving chief executive Lars Rebien Sorensen is to step down early, it was announced on Thursday, at a time when the world's largest insulin maker has said it faces increased competition in the U.S. market where it generates about half its revenues. The company said Rebien Sorensen…
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Philippines’ Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. Two U.N. human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop…
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Philippines’ Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. Two U.N. human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop…