Composite polymer particles adorned with gold nanoparticles could improve the accuracy of infectious disease testing. Original story from Tohoku University Purple circles with small protrusions on a black background.GNDP particles Credit: Hiroshi Yabu By harnessing the power of composite polymer particles adorned with gold nanoparticles, a group of researchers have delivered a more accurate means...
A new study revealed that Alzheimer’s disease starts earlier and progresses faster in people with Down syndrome.Original story from Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis A scientist in a white lab coat helps a person with Down syndrome into a brain scan machine.Washington University senior clinical research coordinator Brittany Nelson (front) helps study...
Yale investigators from the cardiovascular medicine section have identified a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based video biomarker to identify those who might develop and have rapidly worsening aortic stenosis.This research was highlighted in a new paper, “A Multimodality Video-Based AI Biomarker For Aortic Stenosis Development And Progression,” published in JAMA Cardiology. More than 1.5 million people...
by Levi Gadye, University of California, San Francisco Images by Swanson Lab The brain’s neurons (yellow) connect with one another using a vast network of neural wires, called neurites. Credit: Swanson Lab/University of California, San FranciscoWhether reeling from a sudden stroke or buckling under the sustained assault of Alzheimer’s, the brain becomes inflamed, leading to...
by Sanford-Burnham Prebys This portrait of extracellular vesicles was taken using confocal laser scanning microscopy. The membrane was stained with fluorescent dye. Image titled “Exosomes” courtesy of Tomaž Einfalt, University of Basel, under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. Credit: Tomaž EinfaltScientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have demonstrated that vesicles traveling between cells in the brain carry...
by Lisbeth Heilesen, Aarhus University New knowledge about cholesterol contribute to the understanding of the neurodegenerative Niemann-Pick type C disease – also called “childhood Alzheimer’s” Credit: Mikael WinklerUsually, the word “cholesterol” prompts a negative reaction because of its role in cardiovascular disease. While this is true, cholesterol is also vital for cells to function correctly—for...
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: NATALIE PHILLIPS AND NICHOLAS GRUNDEN: “NETWORK ANALYSIS HELPS US READ BETWEEN THE LINES, BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK AT THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ALL OF THE VARIABLES AT THE SAME TIME.”CREDIT: CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY We all lose our car keys or our glasses from time to time. Most people would be correct to laugh it...
Individual patients with autoimmune diseases can receive tailored medication by computationally treating their so-called digital twins with thousands of medications. This is according to an international study published in Genome Medicine by researchers from Karolinska Institutet. What does your publication show?“It is possible to construct a digital twin of an individual patient’s autoimmune disease. This...
by Melissa Rohman, Northwestern University Representative composite image of a breast cancer specimen stained by multi-color IHC comprising CD8, Ki67, GCLC, GPX4, 923 A2AR, PanCK and DAPI. Representative CD8+GPX4+ (blue arrow), CD8+GCLC+ (blue arrowhead), CD8+GPX4+GCLC+ 924 (red arrow), and CD8+Ki67+ GPX4+GCLC+ (red arrowhead) cells. Credit: Bin Zhang, PhDA recent Northwestern Medicine study has discovered a...
Some drinks that may help lower blood pressure in the morning include beetroot juice, tomato juice, and certain types of tea. Blood pressure is the force a person’s blood exerts on the walls of the arteries as it is pumped by the heart. The arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from the heart around...
