Health

February 15, 2026

CSU offers new clues to how plants retain healthy genomes, avoid mitochondrial disease

The devastation of mitochondrial diseases is felt by millions of people around the world, and about 1 in every 4,300 people...

The FISH image - FISH stands for a visualisation method called fluorescence in situ hybridisation - shows amoebae infected simultaneously with the Viennavirus (for the first time isolated in this study and therefore named by the research team) and the bacterial symbiont. In the image, the amoebae are shown in magenta, their symbionts in cyan and DNA in yellow. The larger yellow structures are the virus factories, which are still in the initial phase here and cannot produce infectious viruses.

Bacteria provide immunity against giant viruses

Amoebae receive surprising support in defense against viruses: The bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by...

Stolen DNA strengthens immune diversity

A few years ago, Professor Kathrin de la Rosa and her colleagues in the lab of the Swiss immunologist Antonio...

Rapamycin is currently the most promising anti-ageing drug.

Time’s arrow

Imagine you could take a medicine that prevents the decline that come with age and keeps you healthy. Scientists are...

Keck Foundation awards $1.2M to KU, University of Chicago to transform understanding of RNA splicing

LAWRENCE, KANSAS — The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to medicinal chemistry and computational biology researchers...

Full-dose anticoagulation treatment prevented blood clots in COVID-19 patients

A clinical trial of patients with COVID-19 led by investigators at the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital...

New diagnostic option for rare eye disease

An estimated five to ten percent of blindness worldwide is caused by the rare inflammatory eye disease uveitis. Posterior uveitis...

Clinical features and burden of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) in children and adolescents

New study from National Institutes of Health RECOVER initiative finds post-acute COVID-19 in children less common than in adults but more frequent than hospitalization rates for acute COVID-19

Aurora, Colo. (Aug. 29, 2022) – A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RECOVER Pediatric Electronic...

One-year mortality rate by risk score category

New risk score predicts mortality for atrial fibrillation patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement

August 28, 2022

A large-scale international study led by Mount Sinai has yielded the first risk score that can help predict mortality for...

Regenerated meniscus stained with toluidine blue, using an Achilles tendon graft

Tendon tissue plus parathyroid hormone reproduces a normal meniscus

August 26, 2022

The knee meniscus is an important tissue that protects the joint; if the meniscus is damaged—by sports injury or aging–it...

Universal flu vaccine protects against variants of both influenza A and B viruses, biomedical sciences researchers find

August 25, 2022

ATLANTA—A new universal flu vaccine protects against diverse variants of both influenza A and B viruses in mice, according to a...

Pandemic response in Mayotte: How approaches need to be adapted to local community needs

August 25, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic together with its challenges hit the French overseas department Mayotte at a time the island in the...

Ultra-processed Foods and Adverse Mental Health Symptoms

Feeling anxious or blue? Ultra-processed foods may be to blame

August 25, 2022

Do you love those sugary-sweet beverages, reconstituted meat products and packaged snacks? You may want to reconsider based on a...

Changes in hospitalizations due to cannabis poisoning in children aged 0-9 years between 2015 and 2021.

Hospitalizations for unintentional cannabis poisonings among Canadian children surged after legalization, particularly in jurisdictions where the sale of cannabis edibles was allowed

Canada has seen a 6.3 fold increase in hospitalizations for unintentional cannabis poisoning among children under the age of 10...

NIH experts review monkeypox challenges

WHAT: Lessons learned from the public health responses to the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics should help guide the response to...

Dogs with more active owners may get more exercise

A new, international study suggests that dog owners who spend more time exercising themselves tend to exercise their dogs more,...

A new kind of chemo

Chemotherapy sucks. The treatments generally have awful side effects, and it’s no secret that the drugs involved are often toxic...

Insilico Medicine demonstrates value of AI approach to drug discovery

Andy Stamford, PhD, Vice President of Chemistry at Deerfield Discovery and Development at Deerfield Management, says he didn’t fully appreciate...

Newborn screening by rapid whole genome sequencing

Novel newborn screening system uses rapid whole genome sequencing and acute management guidance to screen and diagnosis genetic diseases

San Diego—August 24, 2022— Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM®) today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed study in the...

Study points to new approach to clearing toxic waste from brain