Health

July 20, 2025

“A new era in brain science”: Salk researchers unveil human brain cell atlas

LA JOLLA (October 12, 2023)—Salk Institute researchers, as part of a larger collaboration with research teams around the world, analyzed...

Texas A&M-led team receives USDA grant to study cattle respiratory disease prevention

Researchers from the Veterinary Education, Research, & Outreach (VERO) program at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical...

Letting go of an extra weight to control sleeping sickness

Letting go of an extra weight to control sleeping sicknessCredit: Gonçalo Ribeiro Letting go of an extra weight to control...

Big blood savings: large trial in JAMA shows taking less blood for lab testing reduces transfusions in intensive care

A world-first clinical trial published in JAMA could provide an easy way to save tens of thousands of units of...

New center addresses global climate change impacts on water, other resources

Jordan ranks second among countries with the lowest access to water and is expected to reach water insecurity by 2030....

Researchers find genetic cause of Raynaud’s phenomenon

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London’s Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)...

Inhibiting an enzyme associated with aging could help damaged nerves regrow and restore strength

Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine and Sanford Burnham Prebys have demonstrated a new way to accelerate recovery from...

NIA grant supports training of next generation of translational scientists for Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic development

A prestigious National Institute on Aging training grant to develop a future workforce of research scientists in the field of...

Risk factors for dementia vary by ethnicity, study finds

Modifiable risk factors—including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, low HDL cholesterol and sleep disorders—confer a higher risk of dementia for people in...

Trial results indicate potential for organ transplantation without long-term immunosuppression

Giving living donor liver transplant recipients an infusion of immune cells derived from their donor a week before transplantation is...

Absorption of light by molecules has applications in microscopy, medicine and data storage

Absorption spectroscopy is an analytical chemistry tool that can determine if a particular substance is present in a sample by...

Study clearly identifies nutrients as a driver of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

Woods Hole, Mass. (Oct. 11, 2023) -- Under normal conditions, the floating macroalgae Sargassum spp. provide habitat for hundreds of...

Gene discoveries could help prevent deadly coronary artery disease

An international team of scientists has identified nearly a dozen genes that contribute to calcium buildup in our coronary arteries...

New research unveils intricate mechanism behind immune system’s ability to differentiate between self and non-self antigens

A groundbreaking study, led by Professor Kyemyung Park and his research team in the Graduate School of Health Science and Technology...

Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure, study says

Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to...

Commonly used herbicide is harmful to adolescent brain function

Herbicides are the most used class of pesticides worldwide, with uses in agriculture, homes and industry. Exposures to two of...

TB vaccine discovery paves path to end no. 1 killer of people living with HIV

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a tuberculosis (TB) vaccination strategy that could prevent the...

STARTUP Central project will educate and support biomedical researchers turning innovations into new companies

LAWRENCE — Bringing an idea from a lab to patients and consumers can be a complicated and intimidating process involving...

Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action

Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated...

Pennington Biomedical scientists continue to rank among the world’s most cited researchers