ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY PRESS IMAGE: PET IMAGING (RIGHT) SHOWS THE ACCUMULATION OF IRON IN METASTATIC TUMORS GROWING IN THE SPINE AND LIVER OF PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA. CREDIT: © 2022 JIANG ET AL. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1084/JEM.20210739 Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have discovered that cells carrying the...
SHIZUOKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY – IWATA CAMPUS IMAGE: THE LATEST SPORTS MEDICINE RESEARCH SHOWS HOW ECCENTRIC CYCLING IS SUPERIOR TO CONCENTRIC CYCLING. CREDIT: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RYOICHI EMA OF SHIZUOKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY Working out has a science of its own. Scientists categorize different workout activities based on how the muscles are used while performing them: to understand...
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA IMAGE: RENE CORTESE, PHD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILD HEALTH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. CREDIT: JUSTIN KELLEY, MU HEALTH CARE Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects 22 million people in the U.S. and is linked to a higher...
by Purdue University Fruit flies give insight into age-related changes in human vision. A team of researchers discovered the circadian clock plays a significant role in protecting eyes from retinal degeneration. The team studied fruit flies, which serve as a good model for the human retina. Vikki Weake, associate professor of biochemistry in Purdue’s College...
by University of Cambridge Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with dementia struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage to areas of the brain known as “multiple demand networks,” highly-evolved areas of the brain that support general intelligence, say scientists at the University of Cambridge. There are many different types of dementia,...
by Audrey Post, Florida State University Zucai Suo, Eminent Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine. Credit: FSU College of Medicine A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has made a discovery that alters our understanding of how the body’s DNA repair process works and may lead to...
by University of Geneva Photomicrograph of a cell co-culture of pro-metastatic primary colon cancer PAME (purple) mixed with induced migratory PIM (green). Credit: Ariel Ruiz i Altaba Metastatic cells occur in many forms of cancer. They originate in primary tumors and then break away and migrate. They travel through the tissues surrounding them, through blood...
by Jaqueline Mitchell, Joslin Diabetes Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly two million Americans have type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body does not produce enough insulin to effectively manage blood sugar, leading to high blood sugar levels, or hyperglycemia. Persistent hyperglycemia puts people with diabetes at increased risk for heart disease, nerve...
by British Medical Journal Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute A specific panel of gut microbes may identify pancreatic cancer, irrespective of how far the disease has progressed, suggests research published online in the journal Gut. The findings offer hope of a new non-invasive method of...
by Wiley Generalized 3 Hz spike and wave discharges in a child with childhood absence epilepsy. Credit: Wikipedia. There’s considerable interest in using cannabis-based medications to help treat drug resistant epilepsy, but clinicians have little guidance on how or when to prescribe these products. A working group comprised of pediatric and adult epilepsy specialists, clinical...
