NIH/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES IMAGE: GLUCOCORTICOIDS AND ANDROGENS PROMOTE A HEALTHY STOMACH PIT BY INHIBITING INFLAMMATION, LEFT, WHILE THEIR ABSENCE PROMOTES INFLAMMATION AND SPEM SEEN IN A DISEASED PIT, RIGHT. SPEM GLANDS ARE ALSO MUCH LARGER THAN HEALTHY STOMACH GLANDS. CREDIT: JONATHAN BUSADA, PH.D./NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined that...
by Robin Marks, University of California, San Francisco Credit: CC0 Public Domain While it has been said that the eyes are a window to the soul, a new study shows they could be a means for understanding diseases of the brain. According to new research by scientists at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, retinal scans can detect...
by Will Doss, Northwestern University Scott Budinger, MD, the Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Airway Diseases and chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department of Medicine, and Alexander Misharin, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, were co- senior authors of the study published in PNAS. Credit: Northwestern...
by University of Oxford New research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers. Credit: Shutterstock New research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers. This is the first study to provide prospective...
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 18:16 EDT, 12 May 2021 | UPDATED: 18:32 EDT, 12 May 2021 Scientists have found a way to control the human brain using a protein lurking inside a creature known as ‘vampire fish’ that has lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. US scientists used a protein from a lamprey, which is an...
by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress “The First Cell” is the title of a revolutionary book written in 2019 by oncologist Azra Raza from the Columbia University Medical Center. In it, she calls for a radical shift in cancer funding away from its current predominant focus on late stage treatments, and towards early detection of...
By Talia Ogliore May 13, 2021 A new study with zebrafish shows that a deadly form of skin cancer — melanoma — alters the metabolism of healthy tissues elsewhere in the body. The research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that these other tissues could potentially be targeted to help treat cancer. Patti “Tumors rely on a constant...
by Cedric Ricks, University of Cincinnati Donald Lynch Jr., MD, shown at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Laura Riesenberg was visiting a local amusement park with three of her children when she suffered a massive heart attack. “I was down for about 20 minutes and they defibrillated me twice...
by Massachusetts General Hospital 3D rendering of a B cell. Credit: Blausen.com staff (2014). “Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014”. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436. CC BY-SA 4.0 B cells are the immune cells responsible for creating antibodies, and most B cells, known as B2 cells, produce antibodies in response to a pathogen...
As the participant imagined writing a letter, sensors implanted in his brain picked up on patterns of electrical activity, which an algorithm interpreted to trace the path of his imaginary pen. Credit: F. Willett et al./Nature 2021. The imagined handwriting of a person with paralysis can be translated into text through a brain–computer interface (BCI) that was faster...
