BECKMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: (FROM LEFT) PENGFEI SONG, DR. DAN LLANO, MATTHEW LOWERISON, AND NATHIYA CHANDRA SEKARAN ARE PART OF THE BECKMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDING TO DEVELOP ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHODS FOR STUDYING THE NEUROVASCULAR CHANGES UNDERLYING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. CREDIT: BECKMAN INSTITUTE FOR...
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: THE RESEARCH RESULTS ARE PUBLISHED AS AN INSIDE BACK COVER PAPER IN ADVANCED MATERIALS. CREDIT: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KIST) The stiffness levels and distributions of various biological materials reflect disease-related information, from cells to tissues. For example, malignant breast tumors are usually stiffer and...
by Rachel Sauer, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: CC0 Public Domain The median age for receiving a bladder cancer diagnosis is 73, and a significant number of those living with the disease are in their 70s and 80s. A longstanding stereotype in cancer care is that older patients favor a more paternalistic style of care, one in which they...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Alabama nurse Melissa went to pick up her regular prescription for rheumatoid arthritis last week, she was told the drug was “on hold” while the pharmacist checked she wasn’t going to use it to induce an abortion. “He said, ‘Well I have to verify if you’re on any contraceptives to...
by Candy Gibson, University of South Australia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that fatty foods may not only be adding to your waistline but also playing havoc with your brain. An international study led by UniSA neuroscientists Professor Xin-Fu Zhou and Associate Professor Larisa Bobrovskaya has established a clear link between mice fed...
by Autonomous University of Barcelona Microglial cells in an affected brain region in untreated diseased animals (left) and the same region in treated animals (right). Credit: Autonomous University of Barcelona Microglia, a type of central nervous system cell, is primarily responsible for neuronal death in Leigh Syndrome and the neurological symptoms related to this mitochondrial...
by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital The primary cilium is an appendage located on the surface of cells. Here you can see samples of human medulloblastoma representing SHH, WNT, Group 3 and Group 4. The medulloblastoma cells are pictured in blue. In SHH and WNT you can see primary cilia (green lines) that grow from...
by Zach Sweger, Pennsylvania State University Penn State researchers used advanced imaging to study vascular networks within an adult mouse brain. Credit: Penn State College of Medicine Areas of the brain vulnerable to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease tend to have less-dense vascular networks—which supply the brain with energy via blood—than other areas of the brain,...
By Lydia O’Connor Jul 7, 2022, 07:37 PM EDT | Updated 14 minutes ago California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that the state will start producing its own insulin, lowering the price of an essential treatment that typically costs people with diabetes thousands of dollars of years to obtain. The endeavor will make California the first state to produce...
Source: AAN Older people with hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, may be at increased risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in the July 6, 2022, online issue of Neurology. The risk of developing dementia was even higher for people whose thyroid condition required thyroid hormone replacement medication. Hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland doesn’t...
