by Kyoto University Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health Cancer immunotherapies have made the news for their startling effectiveness against certain cancers. However, current clinical therapies mainly use the patient’s own cells, limiting the number of patients who have access to this cure. CiRA Professor Shin Kaneko is developing iPS cells technology...
by Harvard Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We are truly never alone, not even within our own bodies. Human beings play host to trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms that make up the human microbiome. In recent years, the mix of these resident bacteria, and the presence of specific bacterial species, has been...
by Scott Lafee, University of California – San Diego Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other brain imaging technologies allow for the study of differences in brain activity in people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The image shows two levels of the brain, with areas that were more active in healthy controls than in schizophrenia patients shown in...
by Jeffrey Norris, University of California, San Francisco Credit: NIH What kills most people who die from cancer is not the initial tumor. It’s the intolerable disease burden on the body that arises when tumor cells continually expand their numbers after spreading to different organs. In comparison to what is already known about specific mutations that...
by Max Planck Society 3D rendering of POMC neurons in the hypothalamus. Credit: MPI for Metabolism Research/ Nasim Biglari The nerve cells, also called neurons, in our brain control all the basic processes of our body. For this reason, there are different types of neurons distributed over specific regions of the brain. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for...
by Institute of Science and Technology Austria Mossy fiber synapse in the hippocampus, a “smart teacher”. Image provided by David Vandael and Yuji Okamoto, modified from Vandael et al., Nature Protocols, in press. Credit: Nature Protocols, in press. / IST Austria Information flows in a well-defined direction in the brain: Chemical and electrical signals are passed...
by Holly Ober, University of California – Riverside Left: A nanofiber filter that captures 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols; Right: A highly magnified image of the polymer nanofibers. Credit: Yun Shen A filter made from polymer nano threads blew three kinds of commercial masks out of the water by capturing 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols in an experiment....
Do yon need to have your teeth cleaned or a cavity filled? Go ahead. Dental treatment won’t put you at risk for contracting COVID-19, a new study affirms. “Getting your teeth cleaned does not increase your risk for COVID-19 infection any more than drinking a glass of water from the dentist’s office does,” said lead author Purnima...
Intensive blood pressure treatment targeting systolic blood pressure <120 mm Hg results in lower rates of major adverse cardiovascular events and lower all-cause mortality than a standard treatment target among patients at increased cardiovascular risk, according to a study published in the May 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Cora E. Lewis, M.D., M.S.P.H., from...
by Libby Richards, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Millions have rolled up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine, but why haven’t they rolled up their pants legs instead? Why do we get most shots in our arms? As an associate professor of nursing with a background in public health, and as a mother of two curious kids, I...
