Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Spencer Philipps/EMBL-EBI, 2020 Researchers have investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibers that line the inner ...

New study calculates alarming lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the US

One out of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one out of every ...

Inventing new tools to peer into the gastrointestinal tract

New sensors can reveal therapeutic targets, impact of probioticsCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is developing a ...

UCalgary research delivers new insights into how skin can regenerate after severe burns

Findings provide basis for developing drugs to improve healing in severely damaged skinCredit: UCalgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Calgary, AB ...

Researchers discovered new information on the regulation of cancer cell motility

Credit: Päivi Koskinen, University of Turku PIM kinases are enzymes that promote metastatic growth and spread of cancer cells. Researchers ...

LSU Health New Orleans team creates better tool to aid COVID diagnosis

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA -- An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed ...

High blood pressure and salt, anti-aging factor Klotho key

New database could help lead to personalized treatments for breast cancer patients

Database of 40 breast cancer cell lines will help speed the development of new gene-targeted therapies.Credit: MUSC Hollings Cancer Center ...

CUNY med school, TechnoVax report COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

Credit: City College of New York The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York and TechnoVax, ...

Targeting a chronic pain gateway could bring relief

A new approach to chronic pain treatment targets a molecule that moves pain messages into nerve cell nucleiCredit: Weizmann Institute ...

HEARTROID PROJECT and the TTDD lab at MIT today announced a creative partnership

Credit: Osaka University HEARTROID PROJECT HEARTROID PROJECT and the TTDD lab at MIT today announced a creative partnership. HEARTROID® platform, ...

IOF announces launch of Skeletal Rare Diseases Academy

New International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) initiative will support communication, educational programmes and research advances in rare disorders of bone.Credit: International ...

Protein influences regeneration of vascular cells

Heart Center of the University Hospital of Bonn investigates how the communication between cells can be regulatedCredit: (c) Herzzentrum UKB ...

Top coma experts develop plan to improve patient outcomes

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for ...

Patients with recently discovered antibodies have more severe myasthenia gravis

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A study of 181 patients at 16 sites across the country who test ...

Songbirds, like people, sing better after warming up

A burst of song early in the morning may help birds nail their songs during the dayCredit: Photo by Robert ...

A scientific approach to education reform

Challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education; Sanjay Sarma's new book points a wayCredit: ...

Cold-weather accounts for almost all temperature-related deaths

Credit: UIC/Roberta Dupuis-Devlin With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global ...

Research story tip: Horse skeletons provide clues to preventing racehorse injuries

Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain images for the horse leg and bone, and a ...

Ratio of two proteins may add kidneys to the transplant donor pool