Tag: Medicine/Health

Heparin could be used as a decoy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cellsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- ...

Designed a new model to predict the life expectancy of a severe neurodegenerative disease

Credit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a serious minority neurodegenerative disease, with an annual rate of ...

Kiwis stockpile paracetamol, the basis of most calls to National Poisons Centre

Credit: Dr Eeva-Katri Kumpula While paracetamol was the most common substance of enquiry for calls to the National Poisons Centre ...

SNMMI Image of the Year: Super-agers show resistance to tau and amyloid accumulation

Credit: Merle C. Hoenig, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II - Molecular Organization of the Brain, Research Center Juelich, Juelich, ...

Making balanced decisions

Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner stateCredit: Nicolas Gompel Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and ...

Spread of flu virus in hospital environment common

Credit: Photo by Alana da Silva One in four inpatients with influenza in a given season showed signs of having ...

How breast cancer cells sneak past local immune defenses

Credit: Xue-Yan He, Egeblad lab, CSHL. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a ...

High-fat diet with antibiotic use linked to gut inflammation

UC Davis study found that combining Western diet and antibiotic use is a pre- IBD risk factorCredit: UC Davis Health ...

Ideal way to screen for disease

Bioprobe tests favour AIEgen technologyCredit: Flinders University In the pandemic age of telehealth and new technologies, remote site lab or ...

St18 is a negative regulator of VEGF

Credit: Kenta Maruyama Various pro-inflammatory cytokines and pathogen-associated molecular patterns such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are known to activate NF-kB. NF-kB ...

Learning the wiring diagram for autism spectrum disorders

New study uncovers brain circuit involved in dysfunctional social, repetitive, and inflexible behaviors characteristic of ASDCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Boosting immune memory could reduce cancer recurrence

Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2020 - Blocking a newly identified "immune memory checkpoint" in immune cells could ...

Experts strongly recommend varenicline over the patch for adult smokers hoping to quit

ATS publishes new practice guideline on tobacco dependence treatmentCredit: ATS July 15, 2020 - Smoking cessation initiatives notwithstanding, along with ...

Genetic editing milestone in mouse model of Rett Syndrome

Editing technique repairs mutant MeCP2 RNA and restores MeCP2 protein functionCredit: Rett Syndrome Research Trust A genomic error that causes ...

Lack of trust in local government halted UK COVID-19 track and trace systems

Opinion article by Lord David BlunkettCredit: UK Parliament Lord David Blunkett has argued that a lack of funding for the ...

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine safe, generates immune response

NIAID-sponsored phase 1 trial tested mRNA vaccineCredit: NIAID WHAT: An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...

LOINC joins international council fostering development of global digital health standards

Joint initiative council members include prominent standards organizationsCredit: Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization INDIANAPOLIS -- LOINC®, the ...

Oncotarget: Tumor markers for carcinoma identified by imaging mass spectrometry

Volume 11, Issue 28 of Oncotarget features 'Lipid and protein tumor markers for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma identified ...

COVID-19 and the heart: Searching for the location of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor

Single-nucleus sequencing to undercover cell types at risk of viral infection in the heartCredit: Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) UTICA, ...

Dancing chemicals: Innovative catalytic reaction for low-cost synthesis of aromatic esters