by Sarah Hetrick, Joanne McKenzie, Nick Meader and Sally Merry, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Even before COVID-19 lockdowns, school closures and strict social distancing, depression was on the rise in children and teenagers around the globe. By the age of 19, around 25% of adolescents are estimated to have experienced a depressive episode. By the age of 30, this figure grows...
by University of Queensland Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin is linked to poor vaccine antibody responses in the general population, a University of Queensland study has found. The researchers made the discovery while investigating several cohorts’ responses to the influenza vaccine or hepatitis B vaccine pre-COVID. UQ’s Professor Di Yu...
By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN MAY 29, 2021 22:39 A laboratory image shows a healthy lung, a sick lung and lung treated with MesenCure.(photo credit: Courtesy)An Israeli biotechnology company has claimed a 100% success rate in the first 10 patients treated with its drug as part of an early-stage clinical trial at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.The company,...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE IMAGE: The Robot Smiles Back: Eva mimics human facial expressions in real-time from a living stream camera. The entire system is learned without human labels. Eva learns two essential capabilities: 1) anticipating what itself would look like if it were making an observed facial expression, known as...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success with deep brain stimulation, but those require surgical device implantation. A multidisciplinary team at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new brain stimulation technique using focused ultrasound that is able to turn specific types of...
by American Society of Nephrology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a study of adults with normal kidney function, those who had frequent depressive symptoms were more likely to later experience a rapid decline in kidney function. The study will appear in an upcoming issue of CJASN. Depression is a common condition in middle-aged and older adults, and...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Marked differences in gene activity were identified in the anterior portion of the hippocampus, which points downward toward the face, and the posterior, which points upward toward the back of the head. Credit: Melissa Logies A study of gene activity in the brain’s hippocampus, led by UT Southwestern researchers, has identified marked...
Miriam E. Tucker May 24, 2021 A peripherally acting substance that boosts energy expenditure and reduces fat mass has the potential to become an obesity treatment that doesn’t produce cardiovascular or psychiatric side effects, scientists say. The agent, BIBO3304, is a selective antagonist of the neuropeptide Y1 receptor, which is elevated in the fat tissue of individuals with obesity,...
by Aarhus University Electronic support stockings tested on hospitalized COVID patients. Credit: Bispebjerg Hospital A research group from Aarhus University has developed a special biocompatible electrode for electrical muscle stimulation that the group has integrated and 3D-printed onto medical support stockings. In the winter 2020/2021, the stockings were tested on hospitalized COVID patients. The studies were completed in...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Nature Communications demonstrates that a consortium of bacteria designed to complement missing or underrepresented functions in the imbalanced microbiome of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, prevented and treated chronic immune-mediated colitis in humanized mouse models. The study’s senior author, Balfour...
