by University of Exeter Credit: CC0 Public DomainYoung people could be spared from going blind by a new genetic risk tool that could also help diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) earlier, to start effective treatments. Optic neuritis is a condition that affects people of all ages, but especially young adults, usually manifesting in blurred vision and sometimes...
Patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer have low chances of survivalBut a test could detect signs of the cancer before it develops allowing treatment A vitamin pill-sized device could revolutionize the battle against a deadly throat cancer by diagnosing patients before they develop the disease. Patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer have just a 50 percent chance...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Survival Analysis Based On Dementia Subtypes. Credit: Zhang & Song et al., Communications MedicineResearchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and others have harnessed the power of machine learning to identify key predictors of mortality in dementia patients. The study, published in the February 28 online issue of...
by Elana Gotkine Overall, 14.6 percent of African Americans aged 40 years and older have uncorrected refractive error (UCRE), according to a study published online Feb. 22 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Nathan Dhablania, from the Southern California Eye Institute in Los Angeles, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the burden of and risk factors...
by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe common inflammatory condition sinusitis is linked to a 40% heightened risk of a subsequent diagnosis of rheumatic disease, particularly in the five to 10 years preceding the start of symptoms, according to research published in the open access journal RMD Open. The risks seem to be greatest for...
by Morgan Duerden, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainEosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an allergic inflammatory disorder that affects the esophagus, causing distressing symptoms such as difficulty swallowing in adolescents and adults, and vomiting and abdominal pain in children. Evan Dellon, MD, MPH, a gastroenterologist at UNC Health and professor of medicine...
by Maribel Alonso, Agricultural Research Service Distinct effects of butyrate on colon cancer cell lines (A) HCT116, (B) HT-29, (C) Caco-2 cell growth curves for 24, 48, and 72 h, (D) data for cell growth curve (A–C). The “N/D” stands for “not detectable”. Letters that are not shared between concentration group means are significantly different by...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA A study by the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INc-UAB) demonstrates in animal models the benefits of vorinostat after having suffered a stroke. The drug, used in humans to treat cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, has been proved to mitigate brain injuries and help in restoring brain tissue. Ischemic stroke...
Peer-Reviewed Publication YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Conn. — The eyes have been called the window to the brain. It turns out they also serve as an immunological barrier that protects the organ from pathogens and even tumors, Yale researchers have found. In a new study, researchers showed that vaccines injected into the eyes of mice...
Peer-Reviewed Publication ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY CST–Polα/primasE, THE ENZYME THAT SOLVES THE NEWLY DISCOVERED END-REPLICATION PROBLEM CREDIT: CREDIT SARAH CAI Double Trouble at Chromosome Ends Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov independently realized that there was a problem with how our DNA gets copied. A quirk of linear DNA replication dictated that telomeres...
