Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Lafayette Photography Dublin, Tuesday, 30 June 2020: Researchers have identified a critical new step in how brain cells function ...

Functional in silico dissection of the brain during the natural wake-sleep cycle

A study involving Gustavo Deco, ICREA research professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, published in the ...

Whole-town study reveals more than 40% of COVID-19 infections had no symptoms

Credit: Andrea Crisanti A study of COVID-19 in the quarantined Italian town of Vò, where most of the population was ...

HKUST sets up a platform of vaccine target recommendations for COVID-19

Credit: HKUST As genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the novel pneumonia (COVID-19), are similar to those of the ...

Salk researchers accelerate, expand COVID-19 research

Salk scientists tackle COVID-19 pandemic with innovative research projects on immunity, vaccine development, viral imaging and moreCredit: Salk Institute LA ...

Implants: Can special coatings reduce complications after implant surgery?

Credit: Hala Al Khoury / Uni Halle New coatings on implants could help make them more compatible. Researchers at the ...

Research collaborative releases new collection of North Carolina health care spending data

HCCI, Duke, Blue Cross NC release interactive data on state health care spending to inform public and policymakersCredit: Health Care ...

Women significantly more likely to be prescribed opioids, study shows

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 29, 2020--Women are significantly more likely to receive prescriptions of ...

New treatment for common form of muscular dystrophy shows promise in cells, animals

University of Alberta-led team develops synthetic molecule that stops production of toxic muscle-killing proteinCredit: University of Alberta Researchers have designed ...

Fat cells found to play a central role in renal failure-associated cardiomyopathy

Fat cells found to play a central role in renal failure-associated cardiomyopathy. HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - New research from a team ...

Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal

Credit: Tania Lopez-Hernandez Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, ...

New eye drops may prevent a common cause of blindness

Credit: Troy lab (CUIMC) NEW YORK, NY (June 29, 2020) -- Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have developed ...

Microbiome confers resistance to cholera

Not everyone exposed to infectious diarrhea-causing bacteria gets sickCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cholera can kill within hours ...

Even in the worst COVID-19 cases, the body launches immune cells to fight back

International collaboration provides important piece of COVID-19 puzzleCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA--A new study from researchers at ...

Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels

Intricate sugar networks dissolve to create pathways for blood in lab-grown tissuesCredit: Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June ...

Plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease

Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease's onset, a new experimental and computational ...

New evidence for how blood clots may form in very ill COVID-19 patients

Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/CSHL, 2020 Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating ...

Clues to COVID-19 complications come from NET-like inflammatory response

Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. SALT LAKE CITY - An overactive defense response may ...

Social distancing and dying alone

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 29, 2020)- The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in how hospitals provide end-of-life ...

New heart valve could transform open heart surgery for millions of patients globally