by Boston University School of Medicine Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and a protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. Image created in 2014 by Tom Misteli, Ph.D., and Karen Meaburn, Ph.D. at the NIH IRP. Obesity, insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes are risk factors for breast cancer...
by Karen Michele Nikos-Rose, UC Davis Illustration shows the screen as seen by a game player. The red dot illustrates a distraction the player sees intermittently and must click on in order to continue the game and maintain flow. Credit: Richard Huskey/UC Davis You are playing such an intense video game and are focused so intently...
by Nancy Fliesler, Children’s Hospital Boston The Delta variant’s spike proteins fused to cell membranes far more rapidly than those of the five other variants. Credit: DOI: 10.1126/science.abl9463 The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has swept the planet, becoming the dominant variant within just a few months. A new study from Boston Children’s Hospital, published in Science, explains...
by Cleveland Clinic Glioblastoma (histology slide). Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 New Cleveland Clinic research has found that drugs originally designed to help treat Alzheimer’s disease may hold promise for glioblastoma, the most common and lethal type of primary brain tumor. The findings were published in Nature Cancer. A class of drugs called BACE1 inhibitors were once among...
by Mario Aguilera, University of California – San Diego A new study is showing how value choices are recorded in our brains. Researchers found that persistency allows value signals to be most effectively represented, or “coded,” across different areas of the brain, especially in a critical area within the cerebrum known as the retrosplenial cortex. Credit:...
by University College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Just three minutes of exposure to deep red light once a week, when delivered in the morning, can significantly improve declining eyesight, finds a pioneering new study by UCL researchers. Published in Scientific Reports, the study builds on the team’s previous work, which showed daily three-minute exposure to longwave deep...
by Mariah Chuprinski, Pennsylvania State University Biomedical engineering researchers discovered that during rest, individual neurons fire in organized cascades, triggering activity across the brain. Here, the spiking activity of five individual neurons is shown in a section of a mouse brain. Credit: Xiao Liu When mice rest, individual neurons fire in seconds-long, coordinated cascades, triggering activity across...
by Will Doss, Northwestern University Endoplasmic reticulum (red) is small and malformed in Parkinson’s disease (left), but can be rescued with diltiazem and a farnesyl-transferase inhibitor (right). Credit: Northwestern University A new combination of drugs could fix the broken lysosomal enzyme pathway in Parkinson’s disease-afflicted brain cells, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Neuron. Improving...
By Hailey Mensik Getty Images Dive Brief: The Biden administration is investing $1.5 billion through the American Rescue Plan to address workforce shortages and health disparities with scholarship and loan repayment programs for healthcare students committing to work in hard-hit and high-risk communities, according to a Tuesday release from the White House. The awards will support the National...
By Rich Haridy November 22, 2021 Eremophila galeata is a small shrub that grows in arid areas of Western Australia Geoff DerrinCC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have isolated a compound from an Australian desert shrub with a long history of medicinal use by the Indigenous peoples of Australia that could help cancer patients better respond to...
