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USC study reveals potential new treatment target for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC identify a novel target related to the blood-brain barrier and a potential...
Plant-based diet protects from hypertension, preeclampsia
A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on a high-salt diet, scientists report....
Stents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
MIT engineers used kirigami-style etching to design a stent that can temporarily lodge in tubular organs to release drugs. CAMBRIDGE,...
New super-resolution technique allows for more detailed brain imaging
Reston, VA (Embargoed until 5:00 p.m. EDT, Sunday, June 13, 2021) - A new imaging technique has the potential to...
Radiotracer effective for detection and assessment of lung fibrosis
Reston, VA (Embargoed until 4:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday, June 12, 2021)--Positron emission tomography (PET) using a 68Ga-labeled fibroblast activation protein...
Deep learning with SPECT accurately predicts major adverse cardiac events
Reston, VA (Embargoed until 6:15 p.m. EDT, Friday, June 11, 2021)--An advanced artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning can...
Promising ovarian cancer treatment proves effective and efficient
Reston, VA (Embargoed until 11:00 a.m. EDT, Friday, June 11, 2021)--Preclinical trials of a new radiopharmaceutical to treat ovarian cancer...
Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities
Provides insight into how people decide whether they want to know what future holds The term "doomscrolling" describes the act...
Jan Hoeijmakers to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
Jan Hoeijmakers to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery...
Common diabetes drug shows promise as treatment for COVID-19 lung inflammation
The blood sugar-lowering drug metformin prevented pulmonary inflammation, a major factor in COVID-19 severity and mortality, in studies of mice...
Forget me not: Novel target shows promise in treating Alzheimer’s and related dementias
A novel tau protein conformation, cis P-tau, is a toxic early driver of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and silencing...
Music listening near bedtime disruptive to sleep, Baylor study finds
Baylor sleep researcher Michael Scullin finds 'earworms' continue during sleep, can cause restless nights WACO, Texas (June 9, 2021) -...
How butterflies make transparent wings: MBL scientists see the invisible
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it...
Children cannot understand sadness and happiness in people wearing facemasks
The study published in Frontiers in Psychology shows that children aged from 3 to 5 years old are able to...
Like night and day: Animal studies may not translate to humans without time considerations
In a recent survey of published animal studies, researchers at West Virginia University found disregarding the animals' circadian rhythms can...
Researchers turned transparent calcite into artificial gold
Breakthrough in metamaterials: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University developed an innovative nanotechnology that...
Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding
German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures" - CRC 1039 on medical signal...
AMA awards Penn State College of Medicine $1.8 million for education initiative
The American Medical Association (AMA) has awarded Penn State College of Medicine $1.8 million to lead a five-year, multi-institution initiative...
Researchers test model to predict drug overdose deaths in US
Predictive tools could help counties preemptively deliver public health resources For two decades, the number of Americans who die each...
New study gives clue to the cause, and possible treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
Zebrafish model research reveals clues about molecular triggers of Parkinson's Disease Niigata, Japan - Researchers from Brain Research Institute, Niigata...
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