Increasing sleep time after trauma could ease ill effects, study says
Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, Washington State University SPOKANE, Wash. - Increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after ...
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‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Credit: Jeonghwan Youk, Taewoo Kim, and Seon Pyo Hong 'Mini-lungs' grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals has provided a ...
Nasal septum surgery can affect behaviour, say medics from RUDN University
Credit: RUDN University A team of medics from RUDN University conducted an experiment on rats and confirmed that surgeries in ...
Time is not on their side: physicians face barriers to voting
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Oct. 22, 2020 - Two new UT Southwestern studies published today report some ...
Toward a new staging system for prostate cancer, and why it matters
The U-M-led development and validation of a staging system for non-metastatic prostate cancer could help doctors and patients assess treatment ...
Researchers identify how night-shift work causes internal clock confusion
Cell secretions during shift changes disrupt body clock alignment and raise risk of health issuesCredit: Justin Kelley, MD Night-shift workers ...
New tool can diagnose strokes with a smartphone
Credit: Houston Medical Hospital UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new tool created by researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist ...
Lab-grown mini-lungs mimic the real thing – right down to covid infection
Living human lung air sacs in tiny dishes promise to accelerate covid researchCredit: Arvind Konkimalla/Tata lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...
A wearable sensor to help ALS patients communicate
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to ...
COVID-19: Dexamethasone discovery carries treatment implications
Credit: Courtesy Marcin Minor A new discovery about how the body transports dexamethasone, a drug that can increase the survival ...
Global MRI data offers hope for improving treatment of brain injuries
Building big datasets can make for more breakthroughs in treatmentCredit: Olsen et al., Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2020 Traumatic brain ...
NIH award to fuse immunology and neuroscience research
Credit: Virginia Tech Gabriela Carrillo didn't always aspire to be a neuroscientist. It wasn't until she was providing in-home behavioral ...
Enzyme biofactories to enhance cord blood transplants
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Heno Hwang A new way of producing an enzyme called fucosyltransferase VI (FTVI) in the lab ...
Researchers develop a simplified method to modify disease signaling with light
Credit: Michael Courtney Most diseases are caused by aberrant cell signaling processes and basic research in cell signaling is needed ...
UH Connor Integrative Health Network to study acupuncture in the ED with $2+ million grant
Study could lead to reduced utilization of opioids for painCredit: University Hospitals Jeffery Dusek, PhD, Director of Research at University ...
MRI safely performed in patients with pacemakers and ICDs
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - MRI examinations can be performed safely in patients with non-MR ...
Exercising one arm has twice the benefits
New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has revealed that training one arm can improve strength and decrease muscle loss ...
Simple actions can help people survive landslides
Credit: U.S. Navy/Wikipedia The March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, became the deadliest landslide ...
New experimental blood test determines which pancreatic cancers will respond to treatment
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Oct. 22, 2020) -- Scientists have developed a simple, experimental blood ...
Immune response the probable underlying cause of neural damage in COVID-19
Credit: Photo by Ingrid Gisslén and Aylin Yilmaz It is probably the immune response to, rather than the virus in ...
