by Alvin Powell, Harvard University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has taken a step toward solving a central mystery of Parkinson’s disease: What is the normal function of the protein whose misfolding causes the condition’s characteristic clumps in neurons? In an interview,...
by Thamarasee Jeewandara , Medical Xpress An interactive cellular atlas representing the glomerulus and renal capsule of the kidney. Image downloaded via https://atlas.kpmp.org/explorer/ Credit: Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn4965 A team of researchers including Jens Hansen, Rachel Sealfon, Rajastree Menon, and colleagues of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project, built on an existing specific human kidney tissue atlas relevant to...
by University of Limerick J Calvin Coffey, Foundation Chair of Surgery at UL’s School of Medicine in Ireland, whose major discovery led to the reclassification of the mesentery as a new organ in 2016, has published new research on the makeup and structure of the abdomen. Credit: Alan Place A pioneering University of Limerick professor...
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL IMAGE: THE NEWLY DISCOVERED MUSCLE LAYER RUNS FROM THE BACK OF THE CHEEKBONE TO THE ANTERIOR MUSCULAR PROCESS OF THE LOWER JAW. (S= SUPERFICIAL LAYER, D= DEEP LAYER, C= CORONOID LAYER) CREDIT: JENS. C. TÜRP, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL / UZB Human anatomy still has a few surprises in store for us: researchers...
The opportunity seemed too good to pass up. It was 2020, and the CEO of a blood-test company was addressing fibromyalgia patients through their television screens. His firm, EpicGenetics, wasn’t exactly a household name, but its product could help get you in the door at Massachusetts General Hospital. “With a positive test,” Bruce Gillis, the CEO, said,...
by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Results from a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that older adults with chronic conditions gain significant benefits from having these notes. Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center As of April 2021, federal law requires U.S. healthcare organizations to provide patients with access to their electronic health...
As you read this text, the millions of cells that make up your body are hard at work. Within every cell is a flurry of activity keeping you alive, mostly driven by machinery that is made up of proteins. Some of this protein machinery is so important to living things that it has remained unchanged...
By Michael Greenwood, M.Sc. Reviewed by Sophia Coveney, B.Sc. Stimulators of interferon genes (STING) are cytosolic sensors associated with the endoplasmic reticulum that respond to the presence of dsDNA in the cytosol, usually indicative of an invading pathogen or self-leaked DNA from damaging events. Image Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/Shutterstock.com Cytoplasmic DNA is firstly bound with the...
by Study Finds ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — There are clear differences between “sex” and “gender,” and mistaking the two could cause unrealized harm for individuals across society, doctors warn. Sex relates to biology, reproductive organs and hormonal differences, while gender reflects societal roles. But contemporary medical research and clinical practice often “erroneously” use sex and gender...
Credit…Gracia Lam By Jane E. Brody April 5, 2021 At a time when so many are dying against their will, it may seem out of sync to discuss the option of having a doctor help people end their lives when they face intolerable suffering that no treatment can relieve. It’s less a question of uncontrollable physical pain,...
