Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Ragnar Söderberg Foundation How the immune system adapts to pregnancies has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, findings from an ...

Maternal Immune Activation Induces Sustained Changes in Fetal Microglia Motility

-Demonstrates link to developmental disorders and schizophrenia-Credit: Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine ...

The thymus as key to healthy pregnancies

Credit: @IMBA/Kulcsar Female sex hormones instruct the thymus, a central organ of the immune system, to produce specialized cells called ...

With COVID exacerbating superbug threat, researchers ID new weapon

Study identifies novel compound in fight against antibiotic resistanceCredit: CU Boulder As scientists around the globe wage war against a ...

Cost-effective or not? New research on national vaccination programs

Credit: University of Gothenburg. Immunizing children against chickenpox would save money, but offering shingles vaccinations to all 65-year-olds would not. ...

Trophoblast motility in a gelatin hydrogel

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 18, 2020--Trophoblast cells, which surround the developing blastocyst in early ...

Scientists discover how our brains track where we and others go

NIH-funded study suggests our brains may be more in tune with each other than we thinkCredit: Courtesy of Suthana lab, ...

Andreas Walther receives ERC Consolidator Grant for development of intelligent materials

EU funding for research into materials with both artificial and lifelike propertiesCredit: photo/©: private Artificially created smart, intelligent materials with ...

Similar factors cause health disparities in cancer, COVID-19

Implementing policies and strategies to eliminate racial disparities could improve outcomes for both diseasesCredit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- ...

Fighting the menace of zoonoses

Credit: Hokkaido University Hokkaido University is pleased to announce the publication of "Tackling Global Issues Vol. 3 FIGHTING THE MENACE ...

Model predicts where ticks, Lyme disease will appear next in Midwest states

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking ...

Results of NIH-sponsored ACTIV-3 trial published

Experimental monoclonal antibody not efficacious in Phase 3 trialCredit: NIAID Preliminary results of a phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial ...

Light flips genetic switch in bacteria inside transparent worms

Light-controlled genes could reveal how gut bacteria impact healthCredit: Image courtesy of Jeff Tabor/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) ...

New drug inhibits the growth of cancer cells

Blocking gene expression in mitochondria in mice stops cancer cells from growingCredit: Hauke S. Hillen A newly developed compound starves ...

COVID immunity lasts up to 8 months, new data reveals

Real hope for longevity of COVID vaccinationsCredit: Monash University Australian researchers have revealed - for the first time - that ...

Gates Foundation helps UC study sexual health of South African youth

Researchers show that rural girls look to social and cultural influences, not modern medicine, to prevent pregnancy and diseaseCredit: University ...

Trials of blood thinners in critically ill COVID-19 patients pause due to futility

Credit: n/a December 22 - Three clinical trial platforms working together to test the effects of full doses of anticoagulants ...

Promising clinical data for fenofibrate’s ability to prevent lung damage in COVID patients

Credit: Daniel Hanoch In what has the potential to significantly change how Corona patients are being treated and the severity ...

How roundworms decide the time is right

Credit: Natalia Stec/Hammell lab/CSHL, 2020 Transforming a fertilized egg into a fully functional adult is a complicated task. Cells must ...

RedHill’s phase 2/3 COVID-19 study of opaganib passes second DSMB review