by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rising temperatures due to climate change will lead to an increase in cases of kidney stones over the next seven decades, even if measures are put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)....
by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study conducted in mice demonstrates precisely how triclosan, an antimicrobial found in toothpaste, toys and thousands of other products, can trigger gut inflammation. An international team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
by Imperial College London A colorized scanning electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Credit: NIAID A new study, published in Nature Communications and led by Imperial College London researchers, provides the first evidence of a protective role for these T cells. While previous studies have shown that T cells induced by other coronaviruses can recognize SARS-CoV-2, the...
Scientists have identified a new type of heart cell. Elva Etienne/Getty Images Disturbances in a newly discovered type of heart cell may underlie certain congenital heart abnormalities and a broader array of autonomic nervous system conditions. The cells, called cardiac nexus glia, were shown to play an important role in both heart rate and heart...
by Baylor College of Medicine Chemical structure of vitamin B12. Credit: Wikipedia A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions has shed new light into the complexity of vitamin B12 diseases. The scientists studied two rare inherited vitamin B12 conditions that affect the same gene but are clinically distinct from the...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER HOUSTON ― A blood test, combined with a risk model based on an individual’s history, more accurately determines who is likely to benefit from lung cancer screening than the current U.S. recommendation, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology led by researchers...
JANUARY 7, 2022 Researchers in Austria say a new MRI technique may lead to faster diagnosis and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis. The technique can detect biochemical changes in the brains of people with MS early in their disease, according to findings published Jan. 4 in the journal Radiology. “MRI of neurochemicals enables the detection...
JANUARY 7, 2022 by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Credit: TNE / EPFL After lying for a while in a way that puts pressure on a nerve in your arm, you do not feel the arm anymore, you cannot perceive its location and size, and it feels like it does not belong to your own body....
JANUARY 7, 2022 by Ken Kingery, Duke University David Needham working on new formulations for niclosamide that could help prevent COVID-19 treatments according to early-stage benchtop studies. Credit: David Needham, Duke University Mechanical engineering and materials science professor David Needham has shown that a slight increase in solution pH might be all it takes to turn...
JANUARY 8, 2022 by Georgia Institute of Technology Rendering of brain/neurons firing (NIH). Credit: NIH Severe and persistent disability often undermines the life-saving benefits of cancer treatment. Pain and fatigue—together with sensory, motor, and cognitive disorders—are chief among the constellation of side effects that occur with the platinum-based agents used widely in chemotherapy treatments worldwide. A...
