Health

July 9, 2026

Drugs for better long-term treatment of poorly controlled asthma discovered

A USF Health preclinical study shows that targeting a promising bitter taste receptor with structurally distinct drugs can help prevent...

Adipogenic progenitors keep muscle stem cells young

In adult skeletal muscle, loss of myofiber integrity caused by mechanical injuries or diseases are repaired by resident muscle stem...

Habitual tea drinking modulates brain efficiency: Evidence from brain connectivity evaluation

The researchers recruited healthy older participants to two groups according to their history of tea drinking frequency and investigated both...

Around half a million men who have sex with men in the EU need PrEP but cannot access it

Need to improve easy access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis PrEPStatus of PrEP implementation, Dublin Declaration monitoring in Europe and Central...

Conclusions from a behavioral aging study on male and female F2 hybrid mice on age-related behavior

Due to strain-specific behavioral idiosyncrasies, inbred mouse strains are suboptimal research models for behavioral aging studies.Credit: Malin Hernebring [email protected] Due...

UTHealth leads effort to enhance Texas’ financial exploitation investigations of seniors

Credit: UTHealth An elder abuse team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is partnering with...

Illumination of abnormal neuronal activities caused by myelin impairment

Suggests possible contribution to learning deficitsCredit: Kobe University The neural circuit basis for motor learning tasks when myelination is impaired...

New test diagnoses Lyme disease within 15 minutes

Rapid diagnostic test for Lyme disease matches and outperforms standard testing approaches; could be used in a clinician's officeCredit: Sia...

Harvard University to launch center for autism research

Created with a $20 million gift, the center will aim to unravel the basic biology of autism and related disordersCredit:...

When studying immune cells, environment matters

Report urges researchers to look outside the petri dish and into the body to study T cell metabolismCredit: Image courtesy...

‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves

NIH mouse study could prompt scientists to rethink how benzodiazepines workCredit: Courtesy of Lu lab, NIH/NINDS. Between 1999 and 2017,...

Improving neural implants

Pitt bioengineer Xinyan Tracy Cui receives $2.37M NIH award to deliver improved neural recording technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh/Swanson School of...

Study identifies 5 patterns of gun ownership by motivation, practices, other features

Credit: University of California Regents A study of 429 firearm owners who answered the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey...

With AGS Cocare: Help, AGA expands reach of seminal delirium prevention program

Mutation of the co-chaperone Tsc1 in bladder cancer diminishes Hsp90 acetylation and reduces drug sensitivity and selectivity

The cover for issue 56 of Oncotarget features Figure 5, 'HDAC inhibition synergizes with Hsp90 inhibition to induce apoptosis in...

Genetics of nephropathia epidemica researched by Kazan Federal University

A paper appeared recently in VirusesCredit: Kazan Federal University This particular inquiry pertains to CCR5 - a gene which has...

Plant death may reveal genetic mechanisms underlying cell self-destruction

Loss of protein homeostasis is involved in programmed cell death during hybrid lethality in plantsCredit: Tetsuya Yamada, TUAT Hybrid plants...

Musical perception: nature or nurture?

This is the subject of the research by Juan Manuel Toro (ICREA) and Carlota Pagès Portabella, researchers at the Center...

NHS needs to act on patient feedback, say Sheffield health researchers

Credit: The University of Sheffield Researchers from the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) are today...

MDI Biological Laboratory scientist receives federal grant to study aging