Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Quiet Parks International An area in the Olympic Peninsula's Hoh Rain Forest in Washington state for years held the ...

Risks of invasive and alien predator species for health and ecology

The research project 'ZOWIAC' by Goethe University and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research will be funded with three fourths ...

Synthetic biology and machine learning speed the creation of lab-grown livers

Credit: Arizona State University PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2020 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have combined ...

TU Graz develops screening system for lung sound analysis

The prototype of a lung sound recording system developed at TU Graz (Austria) allows high-quality recordings of lung sounds, which ...

Cervical cancer survival may improve by targeting senescent “zombie” cells

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University How well women with cervical cancer respond to treatment and survive correlates with ...

Researchers adapt cell phone camera for SARS-CoV-2 detection

Credit: Daniel Fletcher and Melanie Ott Researchers have developed an assay that can detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in a ...

Riding in a car in the pandemic: which windows to open?

UMass Amherst research reveals some non-intuitive answersCredit: UMass Amherst/Mathai lab AMHERST, MASS. - If you find yourself in a car ...

New pathway in Alzheimer’s disease provides earlier target for potential therapies

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a new target ...

Researchers urge priority vaccination for individuals with diabetes

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes ...

Research identifies nanoscale effect of water and mineral content on bone

Research into the effect of water and mineral content on collagen fibrils will aid in the development of synthetic materials ...

3D protein modeling suggests why COVID-19 infects some animals, but not others

New insights into protein structures could help inform drug development and predict future outbreaksCredit: Rodrigues et al. 2020 (CC-BY 2.0) ...

C-Path, Ltd. announces new contract with innovative medicines initiative

Credit: Courtesy of C-Path, Ltd. DUBLIN, Ireland, December 3, 2020 -- Critical Path Institute, Ltd. (C-Path, Ltd.) announced today a ...

Can we make bones heal faster?

UIC researchers capture new real-time images of bone, tooth formationCredit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine A new paper in Science Advances describes for ...

Marine mammals’ adaptations to low oxygen offer new perspective on COVID-19

Humans are poorly adapted for oxygen deprivation, making us vulnerable to long-term effects from a disease that disrupts the body's ...

What makes psoriasis sore: Novel role of immune system in the disease

Scientists uncover another one of the complex immune-mediated mechanisms behind severe psoriasis lesionsCredit: Kazumitsu Sugiura from Fujita Health University Psoriasis ...

Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission, Georgia State biomedical sciences researchers find

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission ...

What makes certain groups more vulnerable to COVID-19?

Researchers look to animals to find clues in proteins involved in infectionCredit: Jaswinder Singh What makes the elderly and people ...

COVID-19 advice may have reduced exposure to heart attack triggers

Credit: Journal of Internal Medicine A new study suggests that COVID-19 guidance in Sweden may have reduced people's risks of ...

Adaptive Image Receive (AIR) coil from GE shows promise for whole-brain imaging

GE Healthcare's prototype 16-channel head Adaptive Image Receive (AIR) radiofrequency coil outperformed a conventional 8-channel head coil for in vivo ...

TTUHSC’s Sutton receives grant to continue work on potential lupus treatment