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News in brief: July 2024

This month's top news in brief stories

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AI search engines put to the test

Four proposed state-of-the-art image search engines for automating search and retrieval of digital histopathology slides were found to be of inadequate performance for routine clinical care, US research suggests.

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Sarcoma relapse risk reduced by 43%

A global team of researchers has announced clinical trial results that point to a new immunotherapy treatment option for two of the most common types of soft tissue sarcoma in adults.

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Avian flu detected in New York City wild birds

A small number of New York City wild birds carry the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Virology.

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Avian flu detected in New York City wild birds

The work highlights that the interface between animals and humans that may give rise to zoonotic infections or even pandemics is not limited to rural environments and commercial poultry o

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Novel triple antibiotic combo

Traditional strategies have focused on modifying antibiotics or utilising β-lactamase inhibitors, such as avibactam (AVI), but the efficacy of these is limited against metallo-β-lactamase

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Tech round up: July 2024

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Novel Protein Conjugate Therapy

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Under the microscope: mucus

Why are we putting mucus under the microscope?

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A universal vaccine?

This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots to target subvariants, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a viru

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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood

Swedish researchers have discovered that when enzymes are mixed with red blood cells they are able to remove specific sugars that make up the A and B antigens in the human ABO blood group

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Predictive model for tumour-killing cells

Combined with additional algorithms, the predictive model can be applied to personalised cancer treatments that tailor therapy to the unique cellular makeup of each patient's tumours.

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