TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY IMAGE: THE PICTURE SHOWS STAINING FOR ENGINEERED CELLS THAT SECRETE THE ANTIBODY AGAINST HIV. CREDIT: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY A new study from Tel Aviv University offers a new and unique treatment for AIDS which may be developed into a vaccine or a one time treatment for patients with HIV. The study examined the...
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Later-born generations of older adults in the United States are more likely to have a greater number of chronic health conditions than the generations that preceded them, according to a study conducted by Penn State and Texas State University. According to the researchers, the increasing frequency of reporting multiple...
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2022) – Researchers from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging say a paper recently published in Acta Neuropathologica is the most definitive assessment yet of the prevalence of a form of dementia classified in 2019 and now known as LATE. The results show that the prevalence of brain changes from LATE...
REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE INDIANAPOLIS – Dental professionals require access to each patient’s complete electronic health record – including laboratory test results and current prescriptions – so they can provide the best care possible; care that is safe for the patient, promotes preventive management and improves dental treatment outcomes. This unprecedented access would aid all types of...
by European Society of Human Genetics Arteriovenous malformation. Credit: Hellerhoff/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 The same property of thalidomide that caused birth defects when it was given to pregnant women—the inhibition of blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis)—has led to an interest in thalidomide’s therapeutic utility in other fields. At the annual conference of the European Society for Human...
by American Society for Microbiology Credit: CC0 Public Domain According to new research by investigators at the Mayo Clinic and Washington State University, e-bandages could be an effective alternative to antibiotics for managing wound infections. The findings are presented at ASM Microbe 2022, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. In a recent...
by The University of Hong Kong Credit: The University of Hong Kong Researchers from the Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have identified a new metabolic mechanism in liver cancer cells, by which macropinocytosis, an endocytic process, is used to engulf extracellular proteins as...
by Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Integration of multiple datasets enables robust extraction of informative gene sets. A, B ikarus workflow. ikarus is a two-step procedure for classifying cells. In the first step, integration of multiple expert labeled datasets enables the extraction of robust gene markers. The gene markers are then used in a...
by Hannover Medical School A microscopic image of the cultured human mesenchymal stem cells from the donor umbilical cord, whose stem cell products in conditioned medium were used for this therapeutic approach. Credit: Ralf Hass, MHH Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Clinical researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have succeeded for the first time in...
by James Devitt, New York University Credit: public domain The size of our primary visual cortex and the amount of brain tissue we have dedicated to processing visual information at certain locations of visual space can predict how well we can see, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its study, which appears in the journal Nature Communications,...
