by Max Planck Society Microscopic image of cell nuclei of cultured cells. HOXD13 condensates are labelled in red. The DNA is stained in blue. Credit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Shaon Basu Repeats of individual building blocks within proteins are the cause of many hereditary diseases, but how such repeats actually cause disease is still largely...
Many nerve cells in the brain region hypothalamus have unexpected origins and go through complex development programs, where millions of neurons assemble into a precisely knit network by birth. That is according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Medical University of Vienna published in the journal Nature. The findings...
People with the mental health condition known as body integrity dysphoria (BID) often feel as though one of their healthy limbs isn’t meant to be a part of their bodies. They may act as though the limb is missing or even seek its amputation “to feel complete.” Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology...
by University of Barcelona\ Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona and the CELLEX Biomedical Research Centre from IDIBAPS, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Sydney, University of London and the Research Institute Sant Joan de Déu, have identified in a study with mice a protein which is fundamental...
People with more difficult cases of COVID-19 are hospitalized. This means that there is a higher concentration of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. But does that mean that people should be afraid of visiting their family doctors and other health professionals? Scientists from UCL and Queen Mary University of London have a short answer – no....
By ELIZABETH COONEY Before Wednesday’s hopeful news about the experimental antiviral remdesivir broke, doctors treating patients hospitalized for Covid-19 were already hearing from a few families desperate to get the drug for their loved ones. Now they expect to hear more pleas in the days to come, even though the data are preliminary, results are...
CREDIT: VICTORIA WICKENHEISSER Bethesda, MD – Although today’s rheumatoid arthritis treatments can reduce symptoms, they often come with serious side effects. Results from a new mouse study suggest that a new light-activated drug delivery method helps confine treatments to the joints, which could reduce whole-body side effects. In the U.S., 1.3 million people are currently...
Shopping carts and baskets are disinfected after every use to prevent the spread of deadly infections. This takes a lot of time and is rather expensive. However, because of work of scientists from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, disinfection procedures could be much more rare. Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a...
By Nick Lavars Inflammation is a major focus of much medical research, with its links to arthritis, liver disease, cancers and many more illnesses. A new study carried out at Australia’s Peter Mac Cancer Centre has provided a possible new pathway forward, revealing that drugs under development to treat cancer could be used to temper...
by Johannes Angerer, Medical University of Vienna According to Statistics Austria about 5,600 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Austria every year, meaning it accounts for roughly a quarter of all cancers in men. For some the cancer develops slowly and requires minimal treatment, but others have aggressive forms of the disease which progress...
