Tag: Medicine/Health

First publication from NIH ME/CFS study takes deep dive into key feature of the diseaseCredit: NIH/NCCIH One of the major ...

Evaporation critical to coronavirus transmission as weather changes

Impact of evaporation on virus survival, concentration, transmissionCredit: Talib Dbouk and Dimitris Drikakis WASHINGTON, September 22, 2020 -- As COVID-19 ...

New book on addiction from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Credit: Image generated by Alexander C.W. Smith, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Cold Spring ...

The co-occurrence of cancer driver genes, key to precision medicine

Researchers from the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona develop a system to predict tumour response to ...

CSU secures $3.1 million from NIH to advance SolaVAX coronavirus vaccine research

Credit: Ron Bend/Colorado State University A team of scientists at Colorado State University was awarded a base contract worth $3.1 ...

BioCanRx invests $10 million in promising new cancer immunotherapy research and biomanufacturing

Funding will move novel cancer technologies from the lab to the clinicCredit: BioCanRx OTTAWA, ON (Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 8 ...

Cincinnati Children’s scientists identify hormone that might help treat malabsorption

Human intestinal organoids grown from stem cells used to model congenital disorder in babiesCredit: Heather A. McCauley, PhD/Cincinnati Children's Hospital ...

New drug candidate found for hand, foot and mouth disease

Targeting RNA with small molecules could pave the way for new antiviralsCredit: Courtesy of the Hargrove lab DURHAM, N.C. -- ...

Diabetes dramatically reduces the kidney’s ability clean itself

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (September 22, 2020) - The kidneys often become bulky and dysfunctional in ...

New study reveals why flu can be devastating for pregnant women

Pre-clinical study suggests virus does not stay in the lungs but spreads throughout the mother's bodyCredit: RMIT University New research ...

CRISPR-based malaria testing on-the-fly

A Plasmodium species-specific, ultrasensitive, nucleic acid detection assay to enable fast and inexpensive testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers in ...

Artificial intelligence detects osteoarthritis years before it develops

Credit: Kundu et al. (2020) PNAS PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21. 2020 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...

Regulatory T cells could lead to new immunotherapies aimed at treating multiple sclerosis

New study finds presence of regulatory T cells enables partial recovery from paralysisCredit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - ...

Long-term COVID-19 containment will be shaped by strength, duration of immunity

Credit: Tumisu from Pixabay New research suggests that the impact of natural and vaccine-induced immunity will be key factors in ...

AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds

Rice University engineers use machine learning to speed bioscaffold developmentCredit: Mikos Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 21, 2020) - ...

Older people have become younger

Physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 yearsCredit: Mostphotos, Doug Olson The functional ability of older people is ...

Awareness of COVID-19 in severe dementia patients

Awareness of the COVID-19 outbreak and resultant depressive tendencies in patients with severe Alzheimer diseaseCredit: Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tokyo ...

New insights into how the drug pomalidomide fights cancer

Credit: Tokyo Tech Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the white blood cells, and patients diagnosed with this disease commonly ...

HHRI awarded continuation of SRTR contract

The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) has renewed its federal contract to operate ...

VCU study shows the experimental drug AR-12 could be a promising COVID-19 treatment