Tag: Medicine/Health

A new technology to investigate the cellular processes as they change during fibrosis developmentCredit: SDU The human liver carries out ...

Study finds athletes who play indoor sports at risk of vitamin D deficiency

George Mason University and Mayo Clinic Health System study assesses vitamin D status and supplementation of college athletesCredit: George Mason ...

Levels of sBTLA proteins as potential marker of overall survival of liver cancer patients

Credit: Osaka City University In the 2020 February 25 issue of Scientific Reports, a research group from the Department of ...

‘Primitive’ stem cells shown to regenerate blood vessels in the eye

Credit: Elias Zambidis, Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have successfully turned back the biological hands of ...

New study unveils the mechanism of DNA high-order structure formation

Credit: UNIST A joint research team, led by Professor Ja Yil Lee (School of Life Sciences, UNIST) and Professor Ji-Joon ...

Producing human tissue in space

Credit: NASA On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off ...

Lack of information impedes access to food pantries and programs in Utah

Credit: University of Utah Health Utah residents who have difficulty keeping their families fed could be missing a key ingredient: ...

FSU researchers help discover new genetic variants that cause heart disease in infants

Credit: Photo courtesy of P. Bryant Chase. Florida State University researchers working in an international collaboration have identified new genetic ...

Could cancer immunotherapy success depend on gut bacteria?

Credit: UTSW DALLAS - March 6, 2020 - Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate in ...

SARS influencing response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Singapore

AJR details how Singapore General Hospital responded to the SARS outbreak of 2003, including a thorough list of 43 ground ...

Specialized helper cells contribute to immunological memory

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine, Ludivine Litzler Helper T cells play an important role in the immune response ...

Biomarker in saliva predicts childhood obesity risk

Credit: Photo by John Russell A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a ...

Individual response to COVID-19 ‘as important’ as government action

Credit: Reprinted from The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30567-5, Anderson et al., Figure 1, How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of ...

VIDO-InterVac-led research team at USask awarded almost $1M to fight new coronavirus

Credit: Debra Marshall A University of Saskatchewan research team and collaborating scientists from across the country have been awarded almost ...

What women really want

Researchers at the University of Göttingen investigate the effects of women's cycle on preferences for men's behaviorCredit: Julia Stern, University ...

$3 million grant may result in fewer unnecessary breast biopsies

Dartmouth engineers partner with industry to develop a better breast examCredit: Shireen Geimer/Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth Most people ...

Wyss Institute announces ‘Immuno-engineering to Improve Immunotherapy’ Center

Cancer immunologists and biological engineers will develop new biomaterials-based approaches to enable anti-cancer immune-therapies for therapy-resistant cancersCredit: David Zhang/Wyss Institute ...

Aggressive features in some small thyroid tumors increase the risk for metastasis

Study findings in Journal of the American College of Surgeons support the need for new forms of preoperative testing to ...

Using artificial intelligence to assess ulcerative colitis

Credit: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) develop an artificial intelligence system that ...

Neuroscientists discover new structure of important protein in the brain