by University of Oslo Earlier research has shown that several of the same risk factors behind the development of cardiovascular disease also can lead to Alzheimer’s. Pictured left to right: Shreyas B. Rao, Reidun Torp and Gry H.E. Syverstad Skaaraas. Credit: Carina Knudsen, UiO If the blood supply to your brain decreases, it can trigger...
by Thamarasee Jeewandara, Medical Xpress Distinct face and object representations in singly trained CNNs while a dual-task CNN performs well. (A) Three networks with VGG16 architecture (left) were optimized, one on face identity categorization (Face CNN in red), one on object categorization (Object CNN in orange), and one on both tasks simultaneously (dual-task CNN in...
By Matthew Phelan March 25, 2022 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Inhaled flecainide shows promise for returning patients with recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm, a new study suggests. This route of administration could shorten the duration of emergency room visits and reduce the volume of hospital admissions, they write in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. “Oral...
Heidi Ledford Researchers are studying the long-term effects of treatments given to people hospitalized with COVID-19. Credit: Diego Vara/Reuters In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, urologist and clinical epidemiologist Kari Tikkinen found his schedule full of cancelled surgeries, so he had some time to kill. “Do whatever you feel is most useful,” his...
by Emily Velasco, California Institute of Technology An artist’s depiction of a bacterial cell. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / James Archer Since its invention, chemotherapy has proven to be a valuable tool in treating cancers of many kinds, but it has a big downside. In addition to killing cancer cells, it can also...
by Sonia Fernandez, University of California – Santa Barbara Bacterial infection results in catastrophic changes in blood proteins that can be used as a platform to develop rapid and easy-to-perform tests to predict sepsis for early intervention. Credit: University of California – Santa Barbara In a potential paradigm change for sepsis diagnostics, a new test predicted...
by University of Oxford Retrograde labeling of the mouse claustrum from multiple neocortical locations shown in different colors. Credit: Andrew Shelton (DPAG) A new review paper, published in the journal Brain, has shown that a poorly understood region of the brain called the claustrum may play an important role in how we experience pain. The little understood...
by University of Connecticut Credit: CC0 Public Domain Macrophages travel through our arteries, gobbling fat the way Pac-man gobbled ghosts. But fat-filled macrophages can narrow blood vessels and cause heart disease. Now, UConn Health researchers describe in Nature Cardiovascular Research how deleting a protein could prevent this and potentially prevent heart attacks and strokes in humans. Macrophages are...
by Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A Columbia Engineering team has developed a technology that could replace conventional biopsies and histology with real-time imaging within the living body. Described in a new paper published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, MediSCAPE is a high-speed 3D microscope capable of capturing images of...
by Cornell University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A newly discovered small molecule could be sprayed into people’s noses to prevent COVID-19 illness prior to exposure and provide early treatment if administered soon after infection, according to a study in mice led by Cornell University researchers. The study, published in Nature, employed experimental mice engineered with human receptors...
