Researchers link post-right stroke delirium and spatial neglect to…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Nov.20, 2017. Stroke researchers at Kessler Foundation have proposed a theory for the high...
What happens when patients access their mental health providers’…
Credit: Michael Moody Thanks to electronic health records and online portals, more and more patients are being given access to...
Pigeon study takes on sexism in science
Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis In experimental research, scientists tend to assume that — unless they are looking specifically at reproduction...
New treatment shows promise for patients with rare dermatologic disease
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A new treatment for a rare and often incurable condition called dermatomyositis (DM) reduced the...
Global CAR T therapy trial shows high rates of durable remission for…
In a pair of clinical trials stretching from Philadelphia to Tokyo, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah™...
Asthma research unexpectedly yields new treatment approach for inherited enzyme disease
Credit: Courtesy of EBioMedicine Experiments designed to reveal how a protein protects the lungs from asthma-related damage suggest a new...
Wayne State receives major NIH grant to develop novel treatment for…
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A Wayne State University research team recently received a $1.9 million grant...
Peptide complex formed in the brain is responsible for…
Credit: Vladimir Polshakov. Members of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have determined the structure...
Systems analysis points to links between Toxoplasma infection and…
More than 2 billion people – nearly one out of every three humans on earth, including about 60 million people...
A monkey and a virus: One million years together
Credit: Image courtesy of the MIPT press office The introduction of sequencing and genome comparison tools marked the beginning of...
Diagnosing mononucleosis: UGA’s Mark Ebell works to expedite proper treatment
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia's Mark Ebell wasn't impressed with research on infectious mononucleosis when he wrote his...
People with prosthetic arms less affected by common illusion
Credit: Lauren Jennings People with prosthetic arms or hands do not experience the "size-weight illusion" as strongly as other people,...
New EU project designed to link diagnosis and treatment of diseases over the long term
This news release is available in German. An international team from four EU countries plans to use an innovative concept...
Lesions found within pancreatic islets provide clue for diabetes…
Credit: Saba Parween Researchers at the Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine have created the first 3D spatial visualization of an...
Scratch-and-sniff test could predict Parkinson’s even earlier
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. – A new study provides further evidence that a simple scratch-and-sniff test could...
St. Jude and TSRI scientists help launch Human Dark Proteome…
Memphis, TN and La Jolla, CA – November 9, 2015 – Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, The Scripps...
New NIH grant will study alcohol’s effects on the nervous system
Credit: Michigan Tech When a drink at the local watering hole turns into five or six, what are the effects...
A step toward understanding how hibernation protects hearts
Wintry weather means hats and scarves for some mammals, and hibernation for others. Hibernation dramatically lowers body temperatures, heart rates...
Birds of a feather mob together
Credit: Filipe Cunha Dive bombing a much larger bird isn't just a courageous act by often smaller bird species to...
Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being…
An ancient latrine near a desert in north-western China has revealed the first archaeological evidence that travellers along the Silk...