WAKE FOREST BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: DAWEN ZHAO, M.D., PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND TEAM HAVE DISCOVERED THAT A NANOPARTICLE THERAPEUTIC ENHANCES CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY AND IS A POSSIBLE NEW APPROACH IN TREATING MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSION (MPE). CREDIT: WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Dec. 16,...
Thyroid nodules are lumps that can appear in the thyroid gland in the front of the throat. Thyroid nodules may not cause any symptoms, but people may sometimes feel a bump in the neck. Most are harmless, but some can be cancerous and require treatment. Thyroid nodules develop when thyroid cells build up in the...
by University of Arizona Credit: University of Arizona As flu season collides with the holidays and Arizona’s continuing COVID-19 incidence, many people are taking steps to reduce their risk for illnesses. But with so much misinformation and apprehension about vaccines circulating, rifts can appear among friends and families when not everyone shares the same perspective....
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON Oropharyngeal cancer incidence among men is continuing to rise rapidly in nearly all 50 states and among women living in states in the Midwest and Southeast regions, according to a new study by investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School...
by University of Michigan Credit: CC0 Public Domain When cancer cells metastasize, they morph, becoming missile-shaped in order to penetrate into other tissues throughout the body. In fact, to travel throughout the body, metastatic cancer cells must change their phenotypes—their physical characteristics. This change allows stationary, epithelial cells which compose the barriers of our organs...
by Federico Graciano, Duke-NUS Medical School Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School The Zika virus shunts carbon atoms away from the important glucose metabolism pathway in infected fetuses, leading to a cascade of events that significantly impact fetal development. But giving pregnant mothers a readily available supplement could protect their babies, say the Singapore scientists who made...
by University of Plymouth Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drugs developed to treat AIDS and HIV could offer hope to patients diagnosed with the most common form of primary brain tumor. The breakthrough, co-funded by the charity Brain Tumor Research, is significant because, if further research is conclusive, the anti-retroviral drugs could be prescribed for patients...
by Amy King, University of Plymouth Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine passing an exam, and thinking your success was down to the socks you wore or the number of biscuits you’d eaten, rather than the hours of study you’d put in. This is an issue of ‘credit assignment’, where a person or animal attributes the...
by Children’s Hospital Boston This scanning electron micrograph shows sensory outer hair cells, which are required for cochlear amplification and normal hearing. The image at left shows a disorganized sensory hair cell from the inner ear from a mouse with a mutation in the Strc gene; as a result, the cell is missing scaffolding links...
by Monash University Staining showing mitochondria within individual muscle fibres. Credit: Monash University Monash University, Australia scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves our health. Importantly this discovery has opened up the possibility of drugs to promote this enzyme’s activity, protecting against the consequences of aging on metabolic health, including...
