by University of Bergen Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A recent study by prof. Tone Bjørge, University of Bergen, and her team shows that thyroid cancer is related to in-utero exposures. Thyroid cancer is diagnosed at a younger age than most other malignancies and the incidence is higher in women than men. “The only established modifiable risk factors for thyroid...
by Beck Lockwood, University of Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Assessing the ability of unresponsive patients with severe brain injury to understand what is being said to them could yield important insights into how they might recover, according to new research. A team at the University of Birmingham has shown that responses to speech can be measured...
BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / 18 HOURS AGO Israeli biotech company Nano care says it’s created a gun that can spin out “Spider-Man”-like webs that can cover burns and wounds, The Guardian reports. The artificial skin being shot out of the company’s “Spincare Portable Wound System” allows patients to move around and shower, unlike bandages. It even allows health...
by Keck School of Medicine A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in pink, orange, purple and yellow. Credit: NHGRI If you’ve ever had a bad case of jet lag, you know how a disruption to your body’s circadian rhythm makes it difficult...
Moffitt Cancer Center study suggests elevation in inflammation marker IL-6 linked to higher levels of fatigue H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE TAMPA, Fla. — Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the U.S. For many patients, hormone therapy is a treatment option. This type of therapy, also called androgen...
by Rockefeller University energy and scientists hope it may hold the key to new obesity treatments. But it has long been unclear whether people with ample brown fat truly enjoy better health. For one thing, it has been hard to even identify such individuals since brown fat is hidden deep inside the body. Now, a new...
by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center An artist’s depiction of a T cell. Credit: NIAID Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that a protein called NF-kappa B-inducing kinase (NIK) is essential for the shift in metabolic activity that occurs with T cell activation, making it a critical factor...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IMAGE: WEIPING ZOU, M.D., PH.D. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROGEL CANCER CENTER ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D., noticed that when his patients had cancer that spread to the liver, they fared poorly – more so than when cancer spread to other parts of the body. Not...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have developed a machine-learning method that crunches massive amounts of data to help determine which existing medications could improve outcomes in diseases for which they are not prescribed. The intent of this work is to speed up drug repurposing, which is not a new concept – think Botox...
University of South Florida experts in airway bitter taste receptors and medicinal chemistry team up to advance a potential asthma and COPD treatment that works differently than existing bronchodilators UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) IMAGE: STEPHEN LIGGETT, MD, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA MORSANI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (TAMPA, FL), LED THE CROSS-DISCIPLINARY, PRECLINICAL...
