Two studies look at female athletes’ mental, physical resilience
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Two new studies will examine female athletes’ mental and physical resilience via two newly funded grants, dedicated to improving performance and...
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Dr. Jedd Wolchok appointed Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK (July 28, 2022)—Dr. Jedd Wolchok, an internationally acclaimed medical oncologist whose innovations in immunotherapy have revolutionized melanoma treatment, has been recruited as the...
Teaching an old drug new tricks
To treat some of the psychosis issues associated with Parkinson’s disease, physicians often prescribe pimavanserin, an antipsychotic drug that acts within the brain to prevent hallucinations...
COVID-19: New energy for flagging immune cells
When we fall ill, we often lose our appetite. This also has an effect on our metabolism: since it is no longer as well supplied...
Advanced MRI benefits patients with heart stiffening disease
An advanced form of cardiac MRI, developed by academics at UCL in collaboration with the Royal Free Hospital, has for the first-time enabled clinicians to...
Cell by cell, scientists are building a high-resolution map of brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease
If you compare the brain of someone who has died from neurodegenerative disease to that of a healthy person, you can’t miss the difference: In...
City life or farm life? When elephants adapt to different human development
The movement of elephants through wildlife corridors is directly impacted by differing forms of human pressures and development, new research by Elephants Without Borders (EWB)...
AI performs as well as medical specialists in analyzing lung disease
A Nagoya University research group has developed an AI algorithm that accurately and quickly diagnoses idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease. The algorithm makes its...
COVID vaccine patch fights variants better than needles
A needle-free vaccine patch could better fight COVID-19 variants, such as Omicron and Delta, than a traditional needle vaccine according to a University of Queensland...
Magnetic quantum material broadens platform for probing next-gen information technologies
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to determine whether a specific material’s atomic structure could host a novel...
What bats can teach us about stopping the next pandemic
Why are bats often linked to incubating coronaviruses such as those behind COVID-19, SARS and other highly contagious respiratory diseases? A new Tulane University study suggests...
UNC research reveals role of genetic variants on psychedelics’ therapeutic effects
CHAPEL HILL, NC – When all else fails, some patients trying to overcome alcoholism, severe depression or anxiety, and even cluster headaches, turn to psychedelic...
Lactating mice pass along common antimicrobial to pups, initiating liver damage
In mouse studies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that lactating mothers expose their feeding pups to triclosan, an antimicrobial...
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs
Beaver fur was a symbol of wealth and an important trade item in 10th Century Denmark, according to a study published July 27, 2022 in...
New photoacoustic endoscope fits inside a needle
WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a photoacoustic imaging endoscope probe that can fit inside a medical needle with an inner diameter of just 0.6 millimeters....
