Health

November 8, 2025

A safer MRI contrast agent for high-resolution 3D microvascular imaging

The new contrast agent offers a vast improvement over traditional gadolinium-based productsCredit: Institute for Basic Science Heart attack and stroke...

Organ-on-chip project receives huge grant to make the leap from lab to fab

NWO Perspective grant of 4.8 million euros for multidisciplinary consortium, led by TU/e professor Jaap den Toonder to develop much-needed...

A containment laboratory 3 propels research on COVID-19 and other pathogens at INRS

Credit: Simon Desbiens The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) inaugurates today its new Level 3 laboratory (CL3), which...

Study provides evidence that bone marrow cell injections help heal the brain after stroke

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Results of a clinical trial released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine provide evidence that...

Immune cell implicated in development of lung disease following viral infection

Findings could help explain how asthma, COPD, severe COVID-19 are triggeredCredit: Holtzman Lab Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine...

Georgia Tech receives $2.2M in Toyota Research Institute robotics funding

Research projects to advance autonomous driving testbed, human-robot collaborationCredit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology is one...

Researchers use silkworm silk to model muscle tissue

Transgenic silk proves to be effective surface for 3D muscle modelingCredit: Matt Jensen News Release -- LOGAN, UT -- Mar....

How the South African COVID-19 variant was found

UC Riverside biomedical scientists were part of an international team that identified the coronavirus strainCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE,...

Soft contact lenses eyed as new solutions to monitor ocular diseases

Credit: Purdue University/Chi Hwan Lee WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions...

Experts recommend shared patient – doctor decision-making prior to lung cancer screening

Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, NC -- In a viewpoint perspective published in JAMA on March 9,...

Precision BrainHealth: Personalized measure, training protocols to impact global health

Center for BrainHealth trial unveils BrainHealth Index as powerful new tool in quest for lifelong brain healthCredit: Center for BrainHealth...

Evidence review examines both benefits and harms for lung cancer screening

Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, NC -- A comprehensive review by University of North Carolina researchers and...

The neoliberal city needs to change, argues Concordia professor Meghan Joy

A new policy agenda calls for progressive measures to restrict widening inequalityCredit: Concordia University What would a truly progressive city...

New lung cancer screening recommendation expands access but may not address inequities

Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, NC -- Calling the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's newly released recommendation...

Study finds increased risk of death among breast cancer patients who drink sugar-sweetened soda

Women who reported drinking non-diet soda five times or more per week were 85% more likely to die from breast...

JNCCN: New evidence on need to address muscle health among patients with cancer

Results of new study underscore the need for the development and testing of nutrition and fitness interventions, as muscle quality...

NIH scientists use human cerebral organoid to test drug for deadly brain disease

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes...

Insilico’s Chemistry42 AI system integrated into UCB’s drug discovery programs

Insilico Medicine announces that UCB will integrate its AI-based system for de novo molecular design, Chemistry42™, into its drug discovery...

New therapeutic approach discovered for reducing the risk of thrombosis

Credit: Laura Alvarez/CeMM Thrombotic occlusion of blood vessels, which leads to myocardial infarctions, strokes and venous thromboembolisms, is the major...

Amyloid plaque mutation map opens new avenues for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease