Tag: Medicine/Health

Microneedle-based diagnostic a new platform for many diseases, blood draw not requiredCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 2, 2020) ...

New analysis method can lead to better cancer drugs

Credit: Ulf Sirborn. While proteins on the surface of cells are the targets for most drugs, refined methods are needed ...

Study provides clues on curbing the aggressive nature of coronavirus

Credit: University of Tartu Recent study by Estonian researchers in University of Tartu explains how coronavirus is activated before attacking ...

Higher risk of future fecal incontinence after sphincter injuries

Credit: Photo: Sodra Alvsborg Hospital The risk of subsequent fecal incontinence and intestinal gas leakage is significantly higher among women ...

Ultrapotent COVID-19 vaccine candidate designed via computer

Preclinical data published in Cell show the nanoparticle vaccine spurs extremely high levels of protective antibodies in animal modelsCredit: Ian ...

Monkey see others, monkey do: How the brain allows actions based on social cues

Researchers at NIPS in Japan show that information flow between two regions in the front of the brain makes it ...

The role of the Sun in the spread of viral respiratory diseases

Credit: Paolo Bonfini, University of Crete Why do most viral epidemics spread cyclically in autumn and winter in the globe's ...

Robert Prud’homme to receive new Princeton University award to honor faculty innovators

Prud'homme led the invention of flash nanoprecipitation to encapsulate drugs in nanoparticles for targeted deliveryCredit: Photo by David Kelly Crow. ...

Giving the immune system a double boost against cancer

Credit: CSHL, 2020 Cancer immunotherapies, which empower patients' immune systems to eliminate tumors, are revolutionizing cancer treatment. Many patients respond ...

Mobile smartphone technology is associated with better clinical outcomes for OHCA

Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- Mobile smartphone technology can ...

Novel adoptive cell transfer method shortens timeline for T-cell manufacture

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers demonstrated that polarized Th17 cells can effectively eradicate tumors after only four days of ex ...

Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious

Credit: Houston Methodist/University of Texas at Austin A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the ...

Collective impact partnership models help close health care workforce gap

New George Mason University study analyzes models of effective health sciences and training programs and communities of practice to scale ...

VUMC study finds faster, wider spread of COVID-19 in US households

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center COVID-19 spreads faster and more widely throughout U.S. households than previously reported, according to new ...

A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain

People born without a corpus callosum do not have a bridge between the two cerebral hemispheres. Neuroscientists from UNIGE have ...

Nelson awarded $4.5 million to study prevention and treatment of metastatic breast cancer

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Erik Nelson has won a $4.5M Era of Hope Scholar ...

Children with asymptomatic brain bleeds as newborns show normal brain development at age 2

Study finds that neurodevelopmental scores and gray matter volumes at age two years did not differ between children who had ...

Microbes in the gut could be protective against hazardous radiation exposure

Credit: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--A new study by scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and ...

SARS-CoV-2 might attack red marrow and block new erythrocytes formation

Credit: FEFU press office Specialists from the Department of Fundamental Medicine of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with Russian and ...

Cancer patients, clinicians find value in electronic real-time symptom