by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A first-of-its-kind study shows the mouth is a robust site for infection and transmission of COVID-19, according to new research published Oct. 27 on the preprint server medRxiv. A team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial...
by Emma Karlsso, Karolinska Institutet During necrotizing soft tissue infections ordinary bacteria infect our body, spread rapidly and cause tissue death. Treatment with antibiotics is not sufficient and infected tissue needs to be removed through surgery. 22% of people who suffer from this disease need to amputate a limb and 18% do not survive. A common...
INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIENCIA IMAGE: CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION IN A HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL. CENTROMERES IN GREEN AND DNA IN MAGENTA. Stem cells are considered one of the most promising tools in the field of regenerative medicine because they are a cell type that can give rise to all the cells in our bodies and...
CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF AUTOMATION By measuring brain signals and implementing a clever feedback scheme, researchers from India and the UK have reduced the positional error in brain-controlled robot arms by a factor of 10, paving the way to greatly enhancing the quality of life for people suffering from strokes and neuro-muscular disorders. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have seen...
When COVID-19 attacks, the immune system produces a cytokine, or protein, called Interleukin-6 (IL-6), whose concentrations can offer vital information about a patient’s level and stage of infection. But measuring the critical marker has been extremely challenging, given its nearly undetectable presence in the biological stew that makes up human blood. Existing technology has not...
Vanderbilt researchers—including Charles Sanders, associate dean for research and professor of biochemistry, and graduate student Justin Marinko—have illuminated the cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, putting them on the road to developing therapeutic approaches for the disease that affects one in 2,500 people. The discovery was published in the article “Direct Relationship Between Increased Expression and Mistrafficking of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth-Associated Protein PMP22” published in...
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a new inflammatory disorder called vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory and somatic syndrome (VEXAS), which is caused by mutations in the UBA1 gene. VEXAS causes symptoms that included blood clots in veins, recurrent fevers, pulmonary abnormalities and vacuoles (unusual cavity-like structures) in myeloid cells. The scientists reported their...
Instead of using synthetic materials, Penn Medicine study shows magnets could be used to arrange cells to grow new tissues. Using a magnetic field and hydrogels, a team of researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new possible way to rebuild complex body tissues, which could result in more...
To recognise a chair or a dog, our brain separates objects into their individual properties and then puts them back together. Until recently, it has remained unclear what these properties are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have now identified them – from “fluffy” to “valuable” –...
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD,Oct 28 2020 A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 suggests that arguments in favor of herd immunity are weakened by the fact that the steep increase in the number of COVID-19 deaths as a result of being exposed to the virus many times instead of once...
