A potentially game-changing trial involving University of Liverpool researchers has shown how an immunotherapy drug can prolong the life of patients with an aggressive form of eye cancer. The clinical research trial, taking place at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, has for the first time shown that a new treatment can improve survival rates in people...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS IMAGE: AT A RURAL HEALTH CENTER IN SOUTHERN MALAWI, IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, A MOTHER FEEDS HER CHILD A PACKET OF READY-TO-USE THERAPEUTIC FOOD (RUTF) AS PART OF A CLINICAL TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER ADDING THE OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID DHA AND CERTAIN OILS TO THE NUTRIENT-RICH FOOD IMPROVES THE COGNITIVE HEALTH...
WILEY IMAGE: RESULTS FROM A STUDY PUBLISHED IN EPILEPSIA SUGGEST THAT FOCUSED ULTRASOUND, WHICH CAN BE USED TO NON-INVASIVELY TARGET CIRCUITS IN THE BRAIN, MAY BENEFIT SOME PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY WHO EXPERIENCE SEIZURES THAT DO NOT RESPOND TO STANDARD ANTI-SEIZURE MEDICATIONS. CREDIT: DR. YU Results from a study published in Epilepsia suggest that focused ultrasound,...
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL When joints flare up in people with rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases, the joints involved are often the same as those affected before. For example, if arthritis started in the right knee, it is much more likely to flare there than in the left knee, even if the arthritis had been in...
by University of Bristol Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One of the largest studies to investigate whether Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm), an understudied low lung function state, is an early predictor of co-morbidities has found it is strongly associated with an increased risk of death. The analysis, led by University of Bristol researchers and published...
by Hiroshima University Scientists from Hiroshima University and University of California, San Diego have discovered the mechanism by which EGFR activates YAP/TAZ. Their results suggest that the combination of the drug targeting YAP/TAZ with EGFR targeting therapy may be beneficial for preventing cancer recurrence and progression acquired by YAP/TAZ re-activation through unknown mechanism. Credit: Toshinori...
by University of Portsmouth Escherichia coli, one of the top three pathogens on World Health Organisation’s target list. Credit: University of Portsmouth Scientists may have made a giant leap in fighting the biggest threat to human health by using supercomputing to keep pace with the impressive ability of diseases to evolve. A new study by...
by University of Maryland School of Medicine Research participant gets bitten by mosquitoes in the laboratory to infect with malaria. Credit: Dr. Andrea Berry Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood by mosquitoes in tropical climates, is typically thought of as a blood and liver infection. However, in a newly published study, researchers at the University...
by Tulane University Cancer — Histopathologic image of colonic carcinoid. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 A Tulane University researcher has found that artificial intelligence can accurately detect and diagnose colorectal cancer from tissue scans as well or better than pathologists, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications. The study, which was conducted by researchers from Tulane, Central...
by Washington State University Postdoctoral researcher Abdelrhman Mohamed and graduate student Gretchen Tibbitts used an electric probe to measure bacterial electrochemical signals and to identify antibiotic resistance in less than 90 minutes. Credit: WSU A technique that measures the metabolic activity of bacteria with an electric probe can identify antibiotic resistance in less than 90...
