For patients with kidney disease, genetic testing may soon be routine
DNA testing can identify a genetic culprit in about 10 percent of adults with chronic kidney disease and impacts treatment for most of them. NEW...
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Yale experts treat severe, disfiguring sarcoidosis with novel therapy
New Haven, Conn. -- An all-Yale team of researchers successfully treated a patient with disfiguring sarcoidosis, a chronic disease that can affect multiple organs, with...
Kicking, yelling during sleep? Study finds risk factors for violent sleep disorder
MINNEAPOLIS - Taking antidepressants for depression, having post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety diagnosed by a doctor are risk factors for a disruptive and sometimes violent...
Confronting the side effects of a common anti-cancer treatment
UMass Amherst researchers study origins of adverse effects AMHERST, Mass. - Results of a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and...
Study yields new insight on how memory works
Experiment with amnesia patients helps explain role of hippocampusCredit: Courtesy of Dr. Christine Smith Two Veterans Affairs researchers have explored how memory is tied to...
Fish bones yield new tool for tracking coal ash contamination
Isotope ratios used as fingerprints of ash's impacts on organismsCredit: Jessica Brandt, Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University study shows that trace elements...
Opioid use and misuse following treatment for head and neck cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer patients are often prescribed pain medications, for example during recovery from surgical procedures. However, for many cancer patients,...
Collecting clean water from air, inspired by desert life
New studies show options for gathering water from fog, condensation COLUMBUS, Ohio--Humans can get by in the most basic of shelters, can scratch together a...
Producers of white colonies on kimchi surface, mistaken as molds, have been identified
Analyses of microbial community structures and whole genome sequencing were performed to the white colony-forming yeasts on kimchi surfaceCredit: Please indicate that this is the...
Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making role in HIV
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today....
Losing neurons can sometimes not be that bad
New results could lead to a complete rethinking of therapeutical approaches to Alzheimer'sCredit: Dina Coelho (CCU) For the first time, scientists at the Champalimaud Centre...
Buzzed flies reveal important step to intoxication
Discovery advances work on antidotes to hangover and intoxicationCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - As New Year's Eve approaches, many people will experience the...
Breast cancer drugs could help treat resistant lung cancers
A class of drugs used to treat certain breast cancers could help to tackle lung cancers that have become resistant to targeted therapies A class...
UC San Diego researchers identify how skin ages, loses fat and immunity
Credit: UC San Diego Health Dermal fibroblasts are specialized cells deep in the skin that generate connective tissue and help the skin recover from injury....
Trees' enemies help tropical forests maintain their biodiversity
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have long struggled to explain how tropical forests can maintain their staggering diversity of trees without having...
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