MAY 30, 2024 by Elsevier Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ultra-processed foods (UPF) may be associated with insomnia experienced by an estimated one-third of adults. An analysis of dietary and sleep patterns reported in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, shows a statistically significant association between consumption of UPF and chronic insomnia independent...
MAY 31, 2024 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A Pfizer medicine has been shown to greatly reduce cancer progression and improve survival outcomes for people in the advanced stages of a form of lung cancer, results published Friday showed. Lorlatinib, which is already approved and available under the brand name Lobrena in the United States, was...
MAY 31, 2024 by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Credit: Molecular Cancer Research (2024). DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-23-0741 Little is known about the genetics and biology of chordoma, a rare and aggressive bone tumor. Chordomas occur in approximately one in a million people in the U.S. a year and 5% of these are in children. These tumors can...
MAY 31, 2024 by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center presented positive clinical results from two studies today at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The findings highlight strong remission and response rates and offer...
MAY 31, 2024 by Washington University in St. Louis Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The protein sTREM2 plays a crucial role in Alzheimer’s disease, but the role is complex and poorly understood. In the early stages of the disease, sTREM2 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid fall relative to healthy people’s, but then the levels rise far...
MAY 31, 2024 by University of Rochester Medical Center Synaptic activity and LTP, but not neuronal firing or PPR, decrease during paired stimulation under AIR conditions and do not recover during D-ꞵHb administration. Credit: PNAS Nexus (2024). DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae196 Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have identified mechanisms...
MAY 31, 2024 by Olivia Dimmer, Northwestern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a way to regenerate damaged heart muscle cells in mice, a development that may provide a new avenue for treating congenital heart defects in children and heart attack damage in adults, according to a study published in the...
By David SzondyMay 30, 2024 Cryogenic cooling down to temperatures approaching absolute zero, here illustrated using AI tools, has just become much faster and cheaper Researchers have found a surprisingly simple way to build cryogenic coolers that reach near-absolute zero up to 3.5 times faster, or using about 71% less energy, than current gear. That’s...
By MAIYA FOCHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 07:31 EDT, 1 June 2024 | UPDATED: 07:51 EDT, 1 June 2024 When Robin Gordon-Cartier was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 50 years old she felt like she was ‘just waiting to die.’ Her busy life as a harpist, full-time teacher and travelling performer was slowly eroding because...
MAY 31, 2024 by The Mount Sinai Hospital Schematic showing the structures of U4 and U6 RNAs, and the interactions between them. Mutations in the highlighted regions of U4 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects tens of thousands. Credit: Lab of Ernest Turro, Ph.D., at Icahn Mount Sinai. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine...
