by Andrew Thurston, Boston University SARS-CoV-2 particles can be seen in a macrophage in the human lung tissue–engrafted model. Credit: F. Douam and D. Kenney / Harvard Medical School Electron Microscopy Facility COVID-19 vaccines have saved at least a million lives in the United States alone, but for many people, a lingering fear remains: If—or...
by Lauran Neergaard In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, David Bennett Jr., right, stands next to his father’s hospital bed in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 12, 2022, five days after doctors transplanted a pig heart into Bennett Sr., in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Researchers trying to...
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that toddlers eat more vegetables if they are rewarded for trying them. Healthy eating habits can lower the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. But, as many...
by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are promising tools for predicting disease risk, but current versions have built-in bias that can affect their accuracy in some populations and result in health disparities. However, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,...
by University of Cambridge It’s often said that a little stress can be good for you. Now scientists have shown that the same may be true for cells, uncovering a newly-discovered mechanism that might help prevent the build-up of tangles of proteins commonly seen in dementia. A characteristic of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s—collectively...
by Robert Bittner, The Conversation Presbyopia stiffens the lens in the eye, and when a person can’t bend their lens as easily, they are unable to focus incoming light on the correct part of the retina and images appear blurry. Credit: BruceBlaus via WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA When people get into their 40s and beyond, their close-up vision...
by Elsevier Validation of virus detection by the tumor profiling assay and novel virus associations. A: Receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curve showing performance of virus detection compared to isothermal amplification method. B: Forest plot showing enrichment of HHV6 in neuroblastoma, HHV7 in esophagogastric cancer, and HPV42 in non-melanoma skin cancer. Results are shown as an...
by Public Library of Science Lantern slide of drawings of the male and female body, with grid lines. Made by Alex Gunn & Sons, Melbourne, Victoria, circa 1940s. Credit: Museums Victoria (Public Domain, creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) Some physical traits that differ between sexes are known to be linked to certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chromosomes other than...
by Institute of Cancer Research USP25 is highly expressed and enzymatically active in PDAC compared to normal pancreatic tissue, which correlated with poor patient survival. a Histological and immunohistochemical analysis of Usp25 expression in normal pancreatic and KPCY tumor tissues. Scale bar is 100 µm. b Quantification of Usp25 positive staining area (n = 6 biologically independent animals...
by Dipali Pathak, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Though warmer temperatures bring excitement for more water activities, they also can bring worries about safety surrounding those activities. An infectious diseases expert at Baylor College of Medicine shares what you need to know about a rare but often feared health concern: flesh-eating bacteria....
