A targeted treatment for emphysema?
Small engineered peptide maintains lung tissue in animal modelsCredit: Hao Wu, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital Emphysema is a progressive, debilitating ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough
Plasma technology could improve viability of implantsCredit: University of Sydney Published in Advanced Functional Materials, a University of Sydney team ...
Tackling the bioethics challenges raised by COVID-19
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (August 3, 2020) - The diverse situations experienced by health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often ...
How COVID-19 changed the way patients responded to a heart attack
Credit: University of Leeds The death rate for patients who experienced what is normally a lower-risk heart attack rose sharply ...
Researchers uncovered the Zika virus mutation responsible for quick spread, birth defects
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas - A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas ...
Machine learning makes drug repurposing for psychiatric disorders more effective
Researchers have correlated information on drugs, genes and diseases to identify potential candidates for psychiatric and neurological treatment; the methodology ...
Study reveals less connectivity between hey brain regions in people with FXTAS premutation
Credit: McKinney, et al. LAWRENCE -- A new paper in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical from researchers at the University of ...
New published study from K-State virologists identifies potential COVID-19 treatment
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Yunjeong Kim and Kyeong-Ok "KC" Chang, virologists in the College of Veterinary Medicine ...
2020 Michelson Prizes support groundbreaking research by young scientists
Credit: Michael Birnbaum August 3, 2020 - The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Vaccines Project are pleased to ...
AI & single-cell genomics
New software predicts cell fateCredit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Traditional single-cell sequencing methods help to reveal insights about cellular differences and ...
Roadmap to reducing colorectal cancer deaths
More convenient, accurate and lower cost tests the path to saving more livesCredit: Rush Production Group Fewer people would die ...
Racial discrimination linked to suicide
Two reports: Pain of discrimination can be greater than will to live; reframing can helpCredit: University of Houston In this ...
Why is stroke so deadly for people of African descent?
Credit: UVA Health African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent, ...
How many people are now immune to SARS-CoV-2?
Credit: LEOSS.sero-survey Who has overcome an infection with the virus without noticing, and how many people have already produced protective ...
The outlook is encouraging: Researchers evaluate a pipeline of clinical trials
A research team, including Parkinson's community patients and carers, has identified and analyzed 145 registered clinical trialsCredit: ClinicalTrials.gov Amsterdam, NL, ...
Diverse amyloid structures and dynamics revealed by high-speed atomic force microscopy
Credit: Kanazawa University In the human body, proteins sometimes occur in fibrillar aggregates called amyloids. Although certain amyloids are known ...
Alteration of calcium channel signaling may explain mechanism of autism spectrum disorder
How does the G406R single point mutation of the Cav1.2 channel affect cellular processes that could lead to a multifactorial ...
Drug discovery: First rational strategy to find molecular glue degraders
Credit: © Cristina Mayor-Ruiz / CeMM Despite enormous efforts to advance traditional pharmacology approaches, more than three quarters of all ...
Raising the bar on disability care
Spotlight on two-way respect during COVID-19, and beyondCredit: Flinders University Encouraging paid workers to employ the 'right kind' of respectful ...
Sweet-taste perception changes as children develop
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Compared with adults, children and adolescents are less sensitive to the ...
