by Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech researcher Andrés García. Credit: Georgia Tech Islet cell transplants are a promising treatment that can cure difficult-to-treat type 1 diabetes. The cells, taken from a donor pancreas, provide patients with a sustainable and tightly controlled source of insulin. A major problem is getting the patient’s immune system to...
by University of Bern A technique called optogenetics can be used to study brain activity during REM sleep. Credit: Pascal Gugler / Insel Gruppe Researchers at the Department of Neurology of the University of Bern and University Hospital Bern identified how the brain triages emotions during dream sleep to consolidate the storage of positive emotions...
by National Jewish Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the first time, researchers have successfully used bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—to treat an antibiotic-resistant mycobacterial lung infection, clearing the way for a young National Jewish Health patient with cystic fibrosis to receive a life-saving lung transplant. The successful use of phages to treat a Mycobacterium abscessus...
by University of California – San Diego Credit: CC0 Public Domain The pandemic put a spotlight on mental health and burnout within health care professions, but emerging research reveals these issues have been affecting health care workers for years, with suicide rates notably high among physicians and nurses. But until now, less was known about...
by American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain Arterial stiffness was a better predictor of future risk of Type 2 diabetes than blood pressure, and people with a combination of high blood pressure and stiffer arteries had the highest risk of developing diabetes, according to new research published today in Hypertension, a peer-reviewed journal of the...
by Weill Cornell Medical College Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image Gallery New research led by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University Hospitals Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University found that prostate cancer screening with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test has remarkably favorable tradeoffs. This is particularly true for...
by American Thoracic Society Black men with emphysema may be misdiagnosed because of race-specific adjustments to spirometry. Credit: ATS A significant percentage of Black men found to have normal lung function after race-based adjustments to spirometry were actually found to have emphysema on their computed tomography (CT) scans, according to research published at the ATS...
by University of Wisconsin-Madison Brock Kingstad-Bakke, a scientist in the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. Credit: School of Veterinary Medicine A second line of defense—the immune system’s T cells—may offer protection from COVID-19 even when vaccine-induced antibodies no longer can, according to new research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. The...
by University of Oxford Cumulative incidence of venous thromboembolism, arterial thromboembolism, and death in COVID-19 cases Data are stratified by age and sex. Estimates (solid lines) are presented with 95% CIs (dashed lines). Index date refers to the date of first COVID-19 diagnosis or positive RT-PCR test result. CPRD Aurum=Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum database....
by University of Bonn Image of the junction between the danger sensor NLRP3 and its signal protein, shown in magnification with the calculated protein structure. Credit: Inga V. Hochheiser Redness, swelling and pain are signs of inflammation. It serves to protect the body from pathogens and foreign substances. Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and...
