Antibodies may provide ‘silver bullet’ for Ebola viruses
IMAGE: James Crowe, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, watches graduate student Andrew Flyak plate antibody-producing B cells from people in Africa who have...
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NIH collaboration helps advance potential Zika treatments
Credit: NCATS Researchers at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) recently identified compounds that potentially can be used to inhibit Zika virus replication...
Research behind global switch to new polio vaccine strategy released…
A groundbreaking study released today shows that a single injectable dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) along with bivalent oral polio vaccine could protect up...
Two differing medications used during heart procedure are both safe…
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Two differing blood clot prevention medications are just as safe and effective for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, a...
Successful implantation of heart pump with power cable behind the ear, a Japan first!
Credit: Osaka University In March 2017, the Cardiovascular Surgery Group at Osaka University successfully implanted a left ventricular assist device with an internal power cable...
Dietary fat, changes in fat metabolism may promote prostate cancer…
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Prostate tumors tend to be what scientists call "indolent" – so slow-growing and self-contained that many affected...
Boosting Sirt4 gene activity extends healthy lifespan in fruit flies
Credit: Jason Wood, Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A new study on the mechanics of aging and longevity finds that fruit flies inhibited from producing...
UMass Amherst research aims to improve health care for those with mental illness
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Diagnostic errors are very common in medicine and often come from failures of "clinical reasoning," some of which may...
Preventing and treating acute chest syndrome in children with sickle…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2018–Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a potentially severe lung complication of sickle cell disease, increases...
DNA in blood can track cancer development and response in real time
Scientists have shown for the first time that tumour DNA shed into the bloodstream can be used to track cancers in real time as they...
Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done…down to your DNA
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the...
80 percent of Ebola survivors suffer disabilities one year after discharge
Credit: (MG Semple ©) New research, conducted by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, highlights the need for long-term rehabilitation of...
Researchers examine role of gene variation linked to Major Depressive…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Dec. 5, 2017-A new study assessed the effects of a SLC6A15 gene variant on resting-state brain...
Localized cooling of the heart limits damage caused by a heart attack
Credit: Catharina Hospital Eindhoven Cardiologists at the Catharina hospital in Eindhoven have succeeded in the localized cooling of the heart during a heart attack, a...
Oligodendrocyte selectively myelinates a particular set of axons in the white matter
Credit: NIPS/NINS There are three kinds of glial cells in the brain, oligodendrocyte, astrocyte and microglia. Oligodendrocytes myelinate neuronal axons to increase conduction velocity of...
