JULY 11TH, 2024POSTED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY(Credit: Getty Images) TAGS : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEMENTIAUNIVERSITY: BOSTON UNIVERSITY Researchers have developed an AI tool that can diagnose ten different types of dementia. Ten million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year but the presence of different dementia forms and overlapping symptoms can complicate diagnosis and delivery of...
Month: <span>July 2024</span>
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How Vitamin D Affects Body Fat Percentage
Jul 111 / 2 Does Low Vitamin D Make You Fat?You know what vitamin D does for your overall health, but what about your body composition? Check out this study.Back in 2020, scientists lined up 47 college athletes to test the fat-loss effects of training and concurrent daily usage of 1,000 IU of vitamin D....
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Groundbreaking study reveals what Alzheimer’s disease looks like inside the brain
By Chris Melore Research led by Dr. Rene Frank, University of Leeds Jul 11, 2024 Left, fluorescence image of amyloid in cryo-preserved post-mortem human brain. Middle, 3-dimensional molecular architecture of β-amyloid plaque. Right, in-tissue structure of tau filaments within post-mortem brain. (CREDIT: University of Leeds) LEEDS, United Kingdom — In a world-first achievement, scientists are...
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New Options for Refractory Gout Are Showing Promise in Late-Phase Trials
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > EULAR 2024 Ted Bosworth July 09, 2024 VIENNA — Safe and effective options for lowering serum uric acid (sUA) in patients with gout who are refractory to conventional therapies appear to be near, judging from phase 2 and 3 trials that produced positive results at the European Alliance...
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Scientists identify possible way to block muscle fatigue in long COVID, other diseases
JULY 12, 2024 by Washington University School of Medicine Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer’s disease. Shown are fruit fly muscles; the violet staining is a measure of how well mitochondria in muscle...
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Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease
JULY 12, 2024 by University of Cambridge Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainCambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer’s disease. The team say this new approach could reduce the need for invasive and costly diagnostic...
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All stem cell therapies are not created equally: Some don’t have many stem cells at all, researchers find
JULY 12, 2024 by University of California – San Diego Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from University of California San Diego have found that two of the most frequently administered stem cell therapies, which are often used interchangeably, actually contain completely different types of cells. The results challenge the current “one-cell-cures-all” paradigm in orthopedic stem...
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Research explains why board games so popular among many people with autism
JULY 12, 2024 by Amy King, University of Plymouth Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from PexelsBoard gaming is a growing industry, and anecdotally popular among people who display autistic traits. Now new research has highlighted the science supporting the anecdote—and, for the first time, the important reasons behind the link. Led by researchers at the University of...
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Scientists uncover novel major risk gene for autoimmune thyroid disease
JULY 12, 2024 by deCODE genetics LAG3 5′ UTR variant rs781745126-T creates a novel upstream open reading frame (uORF) and associates with lower plasma levels of LAG-3. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50007-7Scientists at deCODE genetics have published a study in Nature Communications, comparing over 110 thousand patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) from Iceland,...
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Alternative understanding of brain leads to new treatments for stroke patients
JULY 12, 2024 by Aaron Wagner, Pennsylvania State University The idea of complimentary dominance — both hemispheres of the brain contribute to different aspects of movement in both halves of the body — was developed by Professor Robert Sainburg, pictured here, who studied the hypothesis it for decades. Credit: Dennis Maney / Penn State. Creative...