Study findings surprised researchers, who had expected the reverse, Baylor University researcher says BAYLOR UNIVERSITY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGIST ANNIE GINTY, PH.D. view more CREDIT: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY People who did not have a large heart rate response to a stress task surprised researchers later — after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — when they showed...
Sophia Antipolis, France – 1 Sept 2020: Fainting affects one in two people during their lifetime. Those with recurrent episodes are often afraid to socialise or go to work. Today researchers report the first effective therapy. The late breaking research is presented at ESC Congress 2020.1 Fainting is caused by a fall in blood pressure...
WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS HAVE IDENTIFIED ‘NATURAL KILLER’ CELLS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNITY TO LUNG CANCER. IMAGE: SECTIONS OF LUNG CONTAINING TUMOURS, BY DR KAREN DOGGETT Immune cells called ‘natural killer’ (NK) cells could be a powerful weapon for fighting lung cancer, according to Australian researchers. Studying preclinical and...
Proenkephalin+ regulatory T cells expanded by ultraviolet B exposure maintain skin homeostasis with a healing function NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY UVB IRRADIATION INDUCES PROLIFERATION AND ACTIVATION OF SKIN TREG CELLS. UVB-EXPANDED SKIN TREG (UVB-SKIN TREG) CELLS PROMOTE WOUND HEALING BY PRODUCING ENKEPHALIN AND AMPHIREGULIN(AREG), WHICH ENHANCE KERATINOCYTE GROWTH/PROLIFERATION TO REPAIR… view more CREDIT: DEPARTMENT IMMUNOLOGY, NAGOYA...
Researchers at Flinders University are expanding work on a promising blood test model to help predict or diagnose head and neck cancer, a difficult cancer to pick up early and treat. With cancer accounting for almost 10 million a year, the Global Burden of Disease report (2017) attributed more than 380,000 deaths to head and...
However, the effect of the vaccine specifically against COVID-19 has not been demonstrated RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER The BCG vaccine has a broad, stimulating effect on the immune system. This gives it an effective preventive action against various infections – possibly also against COVID-19. New studies are investigating that. BCG is frequently given to children,...
The team from Marien Hospital and the department of Virology of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) as well as the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, the Clinic of Anesthesiology and the Institute for Virology of University Medicine Essen studied specific antibodies and T cells occurring in recovered, seriously ill and deceased Covid-19 patients. The researchers identified comparable immune...
by Liz Ahlberg Touchstone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois researchers developed a microfluidic cartridge for a 30-minute COVID-19 test. The cartridges are 3D-printed and could be manufactured quickly. Credit: Bill King, University of Illinois As COVID-19 continues to spread, bottlenecks in supplies and laboratory personnel have led to long waiting times for results in...
by Iqbal Pittalwala, University of California – Riverside Confocal image of a mouse brain tissue shows the astrocytes (red) and neurons (green). Credit: Ethell lab, UC Riverside. A team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside has found a new mechanism responsible for the abnormal development of neuronal connections in the...
by Stony Brook University Findings from a positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging study of the amygdala reveals that low levels of the enzyme aromatase, which catalyzes estrogen biosynthesis, are associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) and lower self-control, as measured by a standard personality test. Published in PNAS, the study is led...
