JULY 24, 2024 by ETH Zurich A colorectal cancer metastasis (left half of the image) in the liver. Colorectal cancer cells, pictured in magenta, surrounded by other cells, in white, within the metastasis (microscopy image). Credit: ETH Zurich / Morgan Roberts, Elena Guido Vinzoni In cases where cancer is fatal, 9 out of 10 times...
JULY 24, 2024 by University of North Carolina Health Care This image shows that the cells in yellow in the pons (left) receive input from the green cells in the cingulate cortex (rACC, right), with subdivisions Cg1 and Cg2. Credit: Scherrer Lab, UNC School of MedicineThe placebo effect is very real. This we’ve known for...
JULY 24, 2024 by Lori Solomon The prevalence of impaired awareness of hypoglycemia (IAH) is high among patients using sulfonylureas long term, according to a study published in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. Hsiang-Ju Cheng, M.D., from the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, and colleagues investigated the relationship between...
JULY 24, 2024 by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The experimental setup. A. Participant in the ROBOT group. The social robot Pepper gives instructions and feedback to the patient, which are presented both on the robot’s tablet screen and verbally. B. Participant in the COMPUTER group. The instructions and feedback are presented both on a...
Edited by Deepa Varma July 22, 2024 TOPLINE:Increased dietary intake of vitamin B1 is associated with a lower prevalence of constipation, particularly among men and individuals without hypertension or diabetes. METHODOLOGY:Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 2005-2010 involving 10,371 adults aged ≥ 20 years.Participants provided information on...
JULY 23, 2024 by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology The KAUST-developed technology uses simple molecular biology strategies to seek out the genomic regions that are suspected of harboring complex mutations, deletions or rearrangements. Credit: 2024 KAUST.Despite rapid advances in genetic testing in recent decades, more than half of people worldwide with suspected Mendelian...
Medscape Medical News Patrice Wendling July 17, 2024 A single high dose of psilocybin results in dramatic, acute, and persistent changes to the brain’s functional networks in healthy adults, results of a small randomized controlled trial show. The new findings enhance the understanding of psychedelics’ effects on human brain activity and offer insights into their...
JULY 23RD, 2024POSTED BY NIRANJANA RAJALAKSHMI-U. ARIZONA (Credit: Getty Images) TAGS : BRAINS IMAGING TECHNOLOGY MINDFULNESS ULTRASOUNDUNIVERSITY : UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Ultrasound technology can be used to boost mindfulness, a new study finds. One of the intriguing abilities of the human mind is daydreaming, where the mind wanders off into spontaneous thoughts, fantasies, and scenarios,...
JULY 23, 2024 by Georgia Gowing, Macquarie University Modulation of tau expression in C57BL/6 mice retinas. Credit: Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s40478-024-01804-0The protein tau is essential to the function of cells in the brain and central nervous system, but when over-produced under certain conditions, it forms tangles that clog the cells’ internal structures. These...
By Bronwyn ThompsonJuly 22, 2024 Hair growth can be stimulated by treatment with pentose sugar 2-deoxy-D-ribose (2dDR), which naturally occurs in humans and animalsDepositphotos In some good news for nearly half the world’s men, scientists have found that a naturally occurring sugar in humans and animals could be harnessed as a topical treatment for male...
