Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: TIAN Ying and ZHANG Fan Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Improving air quality reduces dementia risk, multiple studies suggest

Credit: Alzheimer's Association DENVER, JULY 26, 2021 -- Improving air quality may improve cognitive function and reduce dementia risk, according ...

Elsevier partners with American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics to publish Genetics in Medicine

Collaboration signifies strong commitment by all stakeholders to maintain the journal's high standards and expand its global prominenceCredit: ACMG New ...

Oncotarget: TERT and its binding protein: overexpression of GABPA/B in gliomas

This Oncotarget study confirms the upregulation of TERT in primary glioblastomas while all GABP proteins rise with the malignancy of ...

Oncotarget: Replication-stress sensitivity in breast cancer cells

Taken together these Oncotarget findings show that the CTD and OD domains of mtp53 R273H play critical roles in mutant ...

Goal-setting and positive parent-child relationships reduce risk of youth vaping

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, July 26, 2021 - Adolescents who set goals for their future and those with strong parental support ...

Comprehensive clinical sequencing opens door to the promise of precision medicine

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital study highlights the power of comprehensive whole genome, whole exome and RNA sequencing to better ...

Using silicone wristbands to measure air quality

A Texas A&M study found that these inexpensive, convenient devices can measure exposure to a class of chemicals that can ...

New organ-on-a-chip finds crucial interaction between blood, ovarian cancer tumors

Team identifies crucial interaction between platelets and tumors for the first timeCredit: Texas A&M Engineering In the evolving field of ...

Advantages of intranasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2

Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...

Neuroscientists posit that brain region is a key locus of learning

Credit: Sur Lab/ MIT Picower Institute Small and seemingly specialized, the brain's locus coeruleus (LC) region has been stereotyped for ...

Four themes identified as contributors to diseases of despair in Pennsylvania

Credit: Penn State Hershey, Pa. -- Financial instability, lack of infrastructure, a deteriorating sense of community and family fragmentation are ...

Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know

People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's ...

Featured articles from the journal CHEST®, July 2021