By Rebecca Sohn April 5, 2021 Martine Aubert, left, and Keith Jerome of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center led one of the teams that won STAT Madness. FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER From curing herpes to treating diabetes in a new way, their innovations might one day treat some of the world’s most prevalent health...
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic. A vaccination drive in Bangkok in March. Countries struggling to obtain vaccines from wealthier countries may be able to make NVD-HXP-S for themselves or acquire it at low cost from neighbors. Credit…Adam Dean for The...
by Duke University School of Nursing Excess lipids produced by liver failure signal an itching sensation directly to the skin cells, through a receptor called TRPV4 and a microRNA. Credit: Wolfgang Liedtke A devastating itching of the skin driven by severe liver disease turns out to have a surprising cause. Its discovery points toward possible new...
by KU Leuven Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An interdisciplinary team led by KU Leuven and Stanford has identified 76 overlapping genetic locations that shape both the face and our brain. What the researchers didn’t find is evidence that this genetic overlap also predicts someone’s behavioral-cognitive traits or risk of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. This means that the...
by Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter A or B, AB or O, it doesn’t matter—your blood type has nothing to do with your risk of contracting severe COVID-19, a new study concludes. Early in the pandemic, some reports suggested people with A-type blood were more susceptible to COVID, while those with O-type blood were less so....
by Tracey Peake, North Carolina State University Exosomes (magenta) released from a stent in the blood vessel. Credit: Cheng Lab Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an exosome-coated stent with a “smart-release” trigger that could both prevent reopened blood vessels from narrowing and deliver regenerative stem cell-derived therapy to blood-starved, or ischemic, tissue. Angioplasty—a procedure...
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has uncovered a long-sought link in the battle to control cholesterol and heart disease. The protein that interferes with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that clear “bad” cholesterol from the blood was identified in findings recently published in Nature Communications by Dawei Zhang, associate professor of pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. Excess...
COVID-19 stays with you even after the negative diagnosis. Some symptoms are long-lasting and can significantly alter one’s quality of life. Scientists are researching this phenomenon, called long COVID, and found that it is more common in women under 50 and people who experienced severe disease. Furthermore, this research led by the University of Glasgow showed that...
Effective communication is very important to people. Humans are social animals and we need to be able to communicate our needs and problems. However, some people are facing acquired communication disorders that are significantly hindering their lives. Now researchers from the University of Queensland say that Virtual Reality (VR) technology could aid therapy helping people with communication...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE PHILADELPHIA – A team led by scientists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has illuminated the functions of mysterious structures in cells called “nuclear speckles,” showing that they can work in partnership with a key protein to enhance the activities of specific sets of...
