by The Mount Sinai Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have finally cracked the code of a bewildering pediatric disease that sets off a characteristic cytokine storm—a harmful immune system overaction resembling one that arises in COVID-19 cases—and can lead to catastrophic multisystem organ failure or neurodegeneration. Their study, which identifies the cause of the cytokine storm...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia A key driver of patients’ well-being and clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the course the disease takes over time. However, nearly all that is known about the genetics of...
by Sara Vaccar, Carnegie Mellon University Noninvasive focused ultrasound stimulation with cell-type specificity. Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University’s He Lab is focusing on noninvasive neuroengineering solutions that not only provide diagnostic techniques, but also innovative treatment options. Their latest research has demonstrated that noninvasive neuromodulation via low-intensity ultrasound can have cell-type selectivity in...
by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center These tissue stains, cultured from patients with PAH, show that pulmonary artery tissue function improved after treatment with the experimental compound. Credit: Cincinnati Children’s One of the dangerous health conditions that can occur among premature newborns, children born with heart defects, and some others is pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Commonly...
by Stevens Institute of Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images are usually meant to be static. But now, researchers from Mātai Medical Research Institute (Mātai), Stevens Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Auckland and other institutions, report on an imaging technique that captures the brain in motion in real time, in 3D and in...
by American Academy of Neurology Credit: CC0 Public Domain Eating a Mediterranean diet that is rich in fish, vegetables and olive oil may protect your brain from protein build up and shrinkage that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The research is published in the May 5, 2021, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal...
by Hayley Dunning, Imperial College London Illustration of the probe’s molecular interactions. Credit: Angelo Frei / Imperial College London Researchers have created a probe that glows when it detects an enzyme associated with issues that can lead to blood clots and strokes. The team of researchers, from the Department of Chemistry and the National Lung and Heart Institute...
By Jason Gale May 4, 2021, 9:00 PM MST When Ziyad Al-Aly’s research team told him how often diabetes appeared to strike Covid-19 survivors, he thought the data must be wrong, so he asked his five colleagues to crunch the numbers again. Weeks later, they returned the same findings after sifting through millions of patient records. By...
By Nick Lavars May 04, 2021 The superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa, after being “popped like a balloon”Imperial College London. By turning modern scientific tools on an antibiotic discovered 70 years ago, researchers have unearthed a previously unknown mechanism it uses to pierce and pop superbugs like balloons. Promisingly, the scientists have also demonstrated how this approach to taking...
These “nanotraps” mimic the target cells the virus infects to attract the virus. When the virus binds to the nanotraps, the traps then sequester the virus from other cells and target it for destruction by the immune system. In theory, these nanotraps could also be used on variants of the virus, leading to a potential...
