After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis. Cassandra Willyard Antigen presenting cells (illustrated, right) can sometimes train T cells (left) not to attack. Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library Back in 2001, immunologist...
George Lundberg, MDDISCLOSURES I don’t rightly remember when I first learned of restless legs syndrome (RLS). It was many decades ago, and I recognized that once in a while, I would be restless during sleep, tossing and turning, seeking a favorable sleeping position. I felt like I just needed to move my legs around; my...
Subtypes differed in abnormal proteins, disease progression and life expectancyBy JOHN ELY SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE Scientists have discovered there are five types of Alzheimer’s, and this may explain why some drugs appear to be ineffective against the condition. Dutch experts came to this conclusion after examining proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, found in...
21 February 2023 By CARLY CASSELLA (Callista Images/Getty Images) A high-risk stem cell transplant has rid a middle-aged man of any signs of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) more than nine years after treatment. The so-called ‘Düsseldorf patient’ was diagnosed with HIV in 2008, and put on a course of antiretroviral treatments in 2010. The following year, he was...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Jan 1 2023 KAIST’s neuroscientist and professor, Dr. Daesoo Kim attended the “Conference for Musicians with Dystonia” supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Carnegie Hall concert of legendary pianist João Carlos Martins, who is also a dystonia patient, to announce his team’s recent advancements toward finding a...
by Aarhus University Trial design and participant flow diagram. a,b, The eCLEAR trial design (a) and abbreviated CONSORT flow diagram (b). Credit: Nature Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02023-7 For around 40 years, scientists all over the world have been unsuccessfully trying to find a cure for HIV, but now a team of researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University...
By Charlotte Shane Photo-Illustration: Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty Images In the spring of 2018, my now-husband and I spent a week in Santa Monica, one of my favorite places in the world, and all I remember about the trip is my humiliating farts. Distressed digestion is nothing new to me, a member of the...
by University of Bath Dr. Richard Meade. Credit: University of Bath A molecule that shows promise in preventing Parkinson’s disease has been refined by scientists at the University of Bath in the UK, and has the potential to be developed into a drug to treat the deadly neurodegenerative disease. Professor Jody Mason, who led the...
by Mike Addelman, University of Manchester A rare genetic condition which causes inflammatory bowel disease can be successfully treated by bone marrow transplant, according to University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust researchers. The disease, called G6PC3 deficiency, affects around one in a million people and causes inflammation of the bowel, as well as lung...
by Tracie White, Stanford University Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain Motivated by the loss of a patient, a doctor leads a research effort to uncover the molecular mechanisms of hemochromatosis in the heart. When Angelina Cossey Dellacqua finally got the liver transplant her mother had been praying for, she was already so sick and weak that it...
