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Microbiome composition linked to depression Research by Amsterdam UMC, the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus MC delivers the most extensive evidence to date of a relationship between the composition of the microbiome and instances of depression. This composition also plays a role in the differing rates of depression across different ethnic groups. These studies, based partly on data from the HELIUS study, appear today as a double publication in Nature Communications.
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World's largest exome sequencing Alzheimer's study finds two new genes that raise risk of disease An international study led by Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands, Pasteur Institute of Lille, France and the University of Rouen Normandy, France, has led to the discovery of two new 'Alzheimer genes', and evidence for a third. A genetic alteration in any one of these genes can lead to a significantly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study is published today in Nature Genetics.
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Healthy people with abnormal PET scans are at high risk of future memory problems Cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal amyloid-β and tau PET scans have a greatly increased risk of developing mild cognitive symptoms or even dementia within three-and-a-half years, according to new research by Amsterdam UMC's Alzheimer Center and Lund University in Sweden.
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More effective treatment of oesophageal cancer possible thanks to new insight Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not always successful against oesophageal cancer. However, a new discovery by researchers at Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, can provide more insight into why: irradiated oesophageal cancer cells have more mitochondria or 'energy factories'. With these factories they can make energy and repair the damage caused by the radiation.
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Booster vaccinations prove useful for people with transplanted kidney Booster vaccinations prove useful for people with transplanted kidney Immune response emerges after multiple shots
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It's Time to Accept Death and Give it a Real Place in Society Life expectancies are constantly increasing but for Dr. Roeline Pasman, Associate Professor of End of Life Research we need to suppress the urge to "want to live longer” and, instead, "accept death and give it a real place in society”.
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Giving Everyone an Equal Opportunity to be Healthy By giving everyone "an equal opportunity to be healthy", Professor Charles Agyemang is certain that "we can help people make a change in their lives.” A change that would go a long way to reducing not only health inequalities, but also societal inequality.
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