by Lauran Neergaard In this photo provided by UPMC and Pitt Health Sciences, neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Gerszten tells study participant Heather Rendulic how electrodes will be implanted on her spinal cord at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh on May 7, 2021. A stroke left Rendulic with little use of her left hand and arm, so she...
by DeeDee Stiepan, Mayo Clinic Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s long been known that being overweight or obese can make a person more apt to develop conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes, which can lead to cardiovascular disease. But experts at Mayo Clinic say obesity also can affect the heart in entirely independent ways....
by University of South Australia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the review is the most...
by University of Technology, Sydney The Static Droplet Microfluidic device. Credit: Dr. Majid Warkiani Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have developed a new device that can detect and analyze cancer cells from blood samples, enabling doctors to avoid invasive biopsy surgeries, and to monitor treatment progress. Cancer is a leading cause of illness and...
by Impact Journals LLC Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a recently published editorial in the journal Genes & Cancer, researcher Tatsuro Jo from the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital’s Department of Hematology discussed aggressive type adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). ATLL caused by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection is associated with dismal survival...
by Christina Szalinski, Knowable Magazine Full-size antibodies, like those of humans (left), typically have heavy protein chains (dark blue) and light protein chains (light blue). In addition to these standard antibodies, sharks and camels and their relatives make antibodies with only heavy chains (middle and right). The fragments at the antibody tips (shown in circles),...
by University of Portsmouth Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mutations of the gene encoding dystrophins have long been known to cause the debilitating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which affects one in every 5,000 children born, mostly boys. People with the condition will usually only live into their 20s or 30s. Now, a study, led...
by Columbia University Recordings revealed that the coordination of electricophysiological oscillations between two brain regions (hippocampus and parietal cortex) plays a key role in solidifying long-term memories and differs from the oscillations primarily involved in creating initial memories. The image shows a sample recording. Credit: Columbia University Neuroscientists know that what makes a memory really...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Newly discovered telomeric protein VR, (green spheres) is seen accumulating in nuclei (blue ovals) in human osteosarcoma cancer cells stained in red. Credit: Griffith Lab, UNC Lineberger Once thought incapable of encoding proteins due to their simple monotonous repetitions of DNA, tiny telomeres at the tips of our chromosomes...
Jim Kling November 08, 2022 Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is a suspect in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), and recent research developments have strengthened that connection. In 2022, two studies received quite a bit of attention. One showed that EBV seroconversion occurs in the years prior to MS diagnosis in virtually every patient, and that serum levels of the neuronal damage...
