Spinal cord stimulation doesn’t help with back pain, says new review
Spinal cord stimulation, a medical technology suggested to treat people with chronic back pain, does not provide long-term relief and may cause harm, according to...
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WormAtlas expanding beyond C. elegans with support from NIH
URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also known as WormAtlas. The center...
Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities
A research team led by the University of Göttingen has shed new light on the importance of plant roots for belowground life, particularly in the...
University Hospitals chairman of Orthopaedics and Browns’ head team physician James Voos, MD, receives NFLPS’ top research award
The NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) awarded the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence to Dr. James Voos, Head Team Physician for the Cleveland Browns and...
Rensselaer researcher breaks through the clouds to advance satellite communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Moussa N’Gom, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has devised a method to make communications between satellites and the ground...
Aging | Isoform-specific AMPK repression affects cognitive function in aged mice
“The study indicates that the aging process might have distinct impact on the signaling pathways associated with the AMPKα isoforms ”Credit: 2023 Zhou et al....
USAMRIID scientist Arthur M. Friedlander elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Arthur M. Friedlander, M.D., senior scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of...
Enhancing at-home COVID tests with glow-in-the dark materials
Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you’ve taken an at-home COVID-19 or...
UMass Chan investigators identify new pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans
A study published in Immunity by physician-scientist Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, and MD/PhD students Nicholas D. Peterson and Samantha Y. Tse describes a new manner of detecting microbial...
Puzzle-solving behavior spreads through bumblebee colonies
Bumblebees learn to solve a puzzle by watching more experienced bees, and this behavioral preference then spreads through the colony, according to a study publishing...
Cited1 links sex and metabolic hormones to protect against obesity
Sex differences exist in the regulation of energy homeostasis, the organism’s mechanism to keep a stable body weight. Current studies indicate for instance that female...
Hollow bones that let dinosaurs become giants evolved at least three times independently
Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like present-day birds, dinosaurs...
Drinking, drug use and driving increased in West Virginia during COVID-19, WVU study finds
One West Virginia trauma center saw an uptick in alcohol and drug use by patients treated for motor vehicle collision injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Heart toggles between maintenance and energy-boost mode using ribosomes
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a mechanism involving ribosomes which helps the heart toggle between a ‘regular maintenance...
Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights
Note: Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers Deok-Ho Kim and Devin Mair will participate in a NASA teleconference for journalists on Tuesday, March 14, at 11 a.m....
