Routing gene therapy directly into the brain
Credit: Biffi lab / Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center A therapeutic technique to transplant blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells directly into the brain could...
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Highly pathogenic A(H7N9) virus mutation does not change risk to humans
Credit: ECDC In February 2017, a new A(H7N9) virus — indicating high pathogenicity in poultry — was detected in three patients connected to Guangdong, China,...
Brain scan study adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels…
Credit: Gwenn Smith lab In a study looking at brain scans of people with mild loss of thought and memory ability, Johns Hopkins researchers report...
Video game system technology helping physical therapists, athletic trainers
Credit: Photo by Rachel Coward COLUMBIA, Mo. – Motion-based lab technology can help physical therapists, clinicians and athletic trainers analyze how we move–it also is...
Researchers describe bone marrow stem cell population with potential…
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Nov. 9, 2016 – A new study demonstrates that non-blood cell forming stem cells present in...
Reduction in common heart hormone associated with improved outcomes and lower mortality
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart failure patients discharged from the hospital with a reduced level of a common hormone produced by the heart had significantly...
Insilico Medicine to present on applications of DL to drug discovery and repurposing at Boston SPDR
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, October 25, Baltimore, MD – Insilico Medicine today announced that it will present its recent advances in applying deep learning techniques...
Coloring books make you feel better, but real art therapy much more…
Credit: Courtesy of Drexel University. A new study shows that while those adult coloring books can reduce stress, they're still not art therapy. Often, the...
Humanitarian Intervention reduces ‘stress hormone’ in…
Credit: Taghyeer Organization New Haven, Conn. — A new study shows that a humanitarian program to improve the mental health of adolescents affected by the...
From C-H to C-C at room temperature
Credit: IBS, published in Nature Chemistry Carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds make up the skeleton of all organic molecules. However, creating such ubiquitous C-C bonds artificially is...
Prostate cancer cells become ‘shapeshifters’ to spread to…
Credit: Nature Communications Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists report they have discovered a biochemical process that gives prostate cancer cells the almost unnatural ability...
Harnessing the body’s immune system to heal wounds naturally
IMAGE: This is a microscopic view of macrophages, immune system cells that are key to blood vessel growth. Credit: Kara Spiller In what could be...
Advances to brain-interface technology provide clearer insight into…
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University engineers and cognitive neuroscientists have demonstrated that a new high-density EEG can capture the brain's neural activity at...
New neuron-like cells allow investigation into synthesis of vital…
Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State Neuron-like cells created from a readily available cell line have allowed researchers to investigate how the human brain makes a...
Analysis reveals barriers to routine HIV testing in high-income…
HIV, the AIDS virus (yellow), infecting a human immune cell. Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,...
