Tag: Medicine/Health

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC neuroscientists show why it is difficult to re-evaluate past judgmentsCredit: Virginia Tech An international ...

Possible strategy for cancer treatment found in nuclear transport proteins

Credit: Mark_Kostich Shutterstock Although less often the focus of cancer research, recent studies have hinted at the possible importance of ...

Malaria under arrest: New drug target prevents deadly transmission

Australian researchers have found a new drug target for stopping the spread of malaria, after successfully blocking the world's deadliest ...

Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy

Credit: University of Cambridge Mothers' and babies' brains can work together as a 'mega-network' by synchronising brain waves when they ...

Newly discovered protein gives signal for virus infection

Credit: University of Zurich Viruses have been part of animals and humans for eons. When viruses invade a cell, they ...

Research adds new twist to fight against autoimmune diseases

Study in Nature Immunology finds new drivers of destructive inflammationCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists describe in Nature Immunology an ...

Turning light energy into heat to fight disease

Scientists have developed a method involving terahertz radiation to monitor temperature changes when laser light is focused on tiny gold ...

AI improves breast cancer risk prediction

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) can outperform existing ...

New way to identify and track progression of Huntington’s disease

Credit: George Devitt Researchers at the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have developed a new technique to analyse biochemical changes ...

Protein injections in medicine

One day, medical compounds could be introduced into cells with the help of bacterial toxinsCredit: MPI f. Molecular Physiology Pathogens ...

Filtered coffee helps prevent type 2 diabetes, show biomarkers in blood samples

Credit: Yen Strandqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Coffee can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes - but ...

Good aerobic fitness doesn’t protect children against type 2 diabetes, staying active does

Credit: Eero Haapala Good aerobic fitness does not protect children against obesity-induced insulin resistance, which is a key risk factor ...

Here’s a bitter pill to swallow: Artificial sweeteners may be doing more harm than good

Credit: Creative Commons A $2.2 billion industry to help people lose weight through artificial sweeteners may be contributing to type ...

Stroke drug boosts stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury in rats

Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Four months after treating them, Yasuhiro Shiga, MD, PhD, checked on his rats. Walking ...

Millions with swallowing problems could be helped through new wearable device

Credit: Jared Pike/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A wearable monitoring device to make treatments easier and more affordable for ...

Math equation predicts and detects liver cancer

UC San Diego researchers pinpoint moment when healthy liver cells become cancerousCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences By combining RNA ...

Peer support program can help surgeons deal with adverse events that happen during surgery

A surgeon-specific peer support program has the potential to support well-being, improve patient safety, and decrease burnout, according to Journal ...

Developing next-generation biologic pacemakers

Stem cells originally found in fat converted to pacemaker-like cellsCredit: University of Houston University of Houston associate professor of pharmacology ...

PET/CT plays role in lung adenocarcinoma management

AJR finds fluorodeoxyglucose PET, combined with high-resolution CT, has value for predicting invasive histopathologic subtypes of early lung adenocarcinomaCredit: American ...

New study sheds light into origins of neurodegenerative disease