by Ana María Rodríguez, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine Scanning electron microscopy image of a human lymphocyte. Credit: National Cancer Institute Personalized cancer treatments are no longer just options of the future. In the past few years, researchers have made significant progress in ‘teaching’ the body’s immune T cells to recognize and kill specific cancer...
The Vanderbilt Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies, led by Brian Bachmann, professor of chemistry, has discovered a naturally occurring compound that is resilient to antibiotic resistance because of its rare properties. Antibiotic resistance, the ability of bacteria to evade antibiotic treatment, has been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the...
At 11 million cases annually, urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common outpatient infections in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At least half of all women will have a UTI during their lifetimes, and many of the infections — which have increasingly become resistant to a wide...
Wearable soft mask will be useful for new, cutting-edge sleep and psycho-social studies UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST ANNOUNCING A SOFT NEW WEARABLE EYE MASK FOR USE IN SLEEP AND OTHER STUDIES, LEAD AUTHOR TRISHA ANDREW AT UMASS AMHERST SAYS THAT RECORDING HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR SIGNALS ON OR… view more CREDIT: UMASS AMHERST/ANDREW LAB AMHERST, Mass....
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE RED STAIN IS ACE2. THE GREEN PROBE IS STAINING CK18, WHICH IS FOUND IN SUPPORTING CELLS AND MUCUS GLANDS. view more CREDIT: PHOTO BY MENGFEI CHEN Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, experimenting with a small number of human cell samples, report that the “hook” of cells used by SARS-CoV-2 to latch onto...
by Sarah Lichtman, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center A study published today in the journal Nature could help explain why certain people who develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, are prone to autoimmune diseases. ALS, which has no known cure, causes progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the...
by University of Bath Scientists at the University Bath have discovered a series of protein structures that are thought to be highly relevant to the onset of Parkinson’s disease. It is hoped that further analysis of these structures will open up a new avenue for potential treatment for a disease that is the fastest growing...
by Ali Howard, University of Glasgow An international team of scientists, led by the University of Glasgow, has announced findings that could pave the way to a new treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The breakthrough findings, published today in Science Translational Medicine, identify a new class of drugs that reverse the...
by Kobe University A research group led by Professor Mori Yasuko (of the Division of Clinical Virology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine) has revealed that the HHV-6B glycoprotein complex gH/gL/gQ1/gQ2 is an effective vaccine candidate for human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B). There are still no methods to treat or prevent HHV-6B...
by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Visual information detected in the eye, is passed to the visual thalamus – a complex sub-cortical structure that regulates information transmission from the sensory organs to sensory areas of the cortex – and on to the primary visual cortex. Researchers know that layer 6, the deepest cortical layer,...
