Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health While the world waits eagerly for a safe ...

Team taps into wastewater antibiotic-resistant gene monitoring

Credit: Virginia Tech Antibiotic resistance is a grand challenge of the 21st century. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Severe COVID-19 infection linked to overactive immune cells

Credit: Masahiro Ono / Imperial College London Samples from the lungs of patients show a runaway immune system reaction could ...

Human heart in space: What can we learn from mathematical modeling

The research carried out by the Politecnico di Torino shows that space flight ages astronauts' heartCredit: Politecnico di Torino Human ...

Inhibiting epileptic activity in the brain

Protein could lead to new treatments for epileptic seizuresCredit: UIC/Jeffrey Loeb Epileptic seizures often originate in small, localized areas of ...

Scientists developed key principles for creating an artificial vessel

Researchers implanted a polymer scaffold as a vascular prosthesis into the rat abdominal aorta and monitored the process of its ...

Stem cell sheets harvested in just two days

Credit: POSTECH Stem cells are cell factories that constantly divide themselves to create new cells. Implanting stem cells in damaged ...

Light stimulation makes bones heavier

Credit: Department of Periodontology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) show that laser irradiation inhibits expression of the ...

Coronavirus antibodies last at least three months after infection, study suggests

Credit: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the ...

UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology

New method pools thousands of samples, returns individual results in hoursCredit: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

Higher suicide risk among older immigrants with untreated depression

Credit: Photo by Kristina Bath and Johan Wingborg The risk of suicide is clearly elevated in the category of older ...

Silk fibers improve bioink for 3D-printed artificial tissues and organs

Researchers from Osaka University mechanically reprocess silk into a biologically compatible component of bioinks that improves the structural fidelity of ...

Breakthrough discovery in gene causing severe nerve conditions

Credit: Catalin Rusnac Researchers have made a breakthrough genetic discovery into the cause of a spectrum of severe neurological conditions. ...

Presented a program capable of detecting neurodegeneration biomarkers through magnetic

Credit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) Magnetic resonance imaging is the most sensitive and reliable technique for diagnosing and monitoring ...

INRS researchers design the world’s fastest UV camera

An international team of researchers succeeded in recording photons in the ultraviolet range in real timeCredit: Jinyang Liang: Single?Shot Ultraviolet ...

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces new Allen Distinguished Investigators

Collaborative projects funded by the awards will address important questions about neurodegenerative disease, nucleus biology, and protein turnoverCredit: Dollie LaJoie, ...

NIH award to fund UArizona research on opioid addiction and relapse in postpartum women

The $2.3 million National Institutes of Health grant enables University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson's Dr. Alicia Allen to ...

Women are more concerned about COVID-19 than men, Dartmouth-Gallup study finds

Implications for workplace reopenings and 2020 electionCredit: Table provided by Deborah Jordan Brooks and Lydia Saad. A Dartmouth-Gallup study finds ...

Urban air pollution may make COVID-19 more severe for some

Credit: The Innovation As the pandemic persists, COVID-19 has claimed more than 200,000 lives in the United States and damaged ...

Study finds older adults using cannabis to treat common health conditions