by National Institutes of Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s a workhorse nutrient that strengthens bones, supports immune function, helps the heart, and powers the body in many other ways. But recent findings about vitamin D are clear: High doses do not improve heart and circulatory health for most adults any more than modest doses do....
by Kelsey Simpkins, University of Colorado at Boulder Spices and herbs, whether fresh or dried, are important foods for the microbes in out gut that help keep our bodies in balance. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Lifestyle choices—such as eating healthy, staying active as well as resting after exercise, and managing stress—may help prevent people from developing...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Immunological synapses of the Af-CAR T cells (pink) in coculture with A. fumigatus hyphae (grey). Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abh1209 An international team of researchers has developed a way to modify the CAR T engineering process to create cells that can assist in fighting fungal infections in the lungs....
by University of Chicago Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the last decade, timely and efficient diagnoses of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lethal disease that causes scarring of the lung tissue and affects the ability to breathe and be active, has become recognized as a major health challenge. Though not well-known, the disease now has a...
by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D., working in her laboratory. Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new approach to engineering natural killer (NK) cells with a second chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to act as a logic gate,...
by Katharine Miller, Stanford University Overview of audio-based AI detection pipeline. First, the educational video game Guess What? crowdsources the recording of videos of NT children and children with ASD from consenting participants. Audio of children’s speech is manually spliced from the videos and 3 models are trained on this audio data. The first is a...
by Olga Kuchment, Texas A&M University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many diseases have at their origin a protein that does not function properly. Now, a multidisciplinary research team with Texas A&M AgriLife and Texas A&M University has found a way to deliver a protein quickly, effectively and briefly to the brain, with therapeutic and scientific implications....
By Sara Novak on September 27, 2022 Credit: Andy Sacks/Getty Images Terrell Carter remembers one prisoner in particular. They had both been seeking commutations of their life sentence so they could eventually apply for parole. But Carter says that in the midst of the process, his fellow inmate became so debilitated with dementia that the man could no longer...
Written by Anne Jacobson, MD, MPH | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPHPublished on March 4, 2022 Key takeaways: Some people have to pee more often than others. Maybe you’ve wondered if you’re peeing too much or too little. Or maybe your bathroom schedule has changed. How much and how often you pee can vary...
by Newcastle University Comparison of occipital power spectral density of treatment responders and nonresponders based on an average of recordings performed prior to both active and placebo stimulation. The shaded areas represent standard errors of the spectral density estimate. Credit: Ophthalmology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2022.06.041 Using a non-invasive stimulation on the brain may be effective in reducing the...
