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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Solving the riddle of the sphingolipids in coronary artery disease
- Positive effect of midazolam after cardiac arrest
- Low intensity exercise linked to reduced depression
- Social media can be used to increase fruit and vegetable intake in young people
- Tumor cells evade the immune system early on: Newly discovered mechanism could significantly improve cancer immunotherapies
- Researchers unveil PI3K enzyme's dual accelerator and brake mechanisms
- Scientists discover the cellular functions of a family of proteins integral to inflammatory diseases
- Biophysics: Testing how well biomarkers work
- New study uncovers lasting financial hardship associated with cancer diagnosis for working-age adults in the U.S.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Magnetic microcoils unlock targeted single-neuron therapies for neurodegenerative disorders
- In the brain, bursts of beta rhythms implement cognitive control
- Study compares salmonella rates in backyard, commercial poultry farm samples
- Innovative microscopy demystifies metabolism of Alzheimer's
- Dengue fever infections have negative impacts on infant health for three years
- Gentle defibrillation for the heart
- Odor-causing bacteria in armpits targeted using bacteriophage-derived lysin
- New approach to tackle muscle loss in aging
- Study explores possible future for early Alzheimer's diagnostics
- 3 in 5 parents play short order cook for young children who don't like family meal
- Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells
- Mosaics of predisposition cause skin disease
- Despite AI advancements, human oversight remains essential
- Breakthrough rice bran nanoparticles show promise as affordable and targeted anticancer agent
- The enemy within: How pathogens spread unrecognized in the body
- Pressure in the womb may influence facial development
- Predicting cardiac arrhythmia 30 minutes before it happens
- People think 'old age' starts later than it used to, study finds
Monday, April 22, 2024
- Bella moths use poison to attract mates: Scientists are closer to finding out how
- Social programs save millions of lives, especially in times of crisis
- Genetically engineering a treatment for incurable brain tumors
- Key protein regulates immune response to viruses in mammal cells
- Glial hyper-drive for triggering epileptic seizures
- Researchers develop a new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer
- Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response
- Dietary treatment more effective than medicines in IBS
Saturday, April 20, 2024
- New research defines specific genomic changes associated with the transmissibility of the monkeypox virus
- Shoe technology reduces risk of diabetic foot ulcers
- Signs of multiple sclerosis show up in blood years before symptoms
- Bacteria behind meningitis in babies explained
- Scientists develop framework to measure plastic emissions and bolster U.N. efforts to reduce pollution
- Coal train pollution increases health risks and disparities
- Mutations in noncoding DNA become functional in some cancer-driving genes
- Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged heart tissue, while other fish species cannot?
- Analyzing the progression in retinal thickness could predict cognitive progression in Parkinson's patients
- Study opens new avenue for immunotherapy drug development
- Starving cells hijack protein transport stations
- Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains
- Next-generation treatments hitch a ride into cancer cells
- New study focuses on the placenta for clues to the development of gestational diabetes
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Fourteen years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, endemic fishes face an uncertain future
- A common pathway in the brain that enables addictive drugs to hijack natural reward processing
- Scientists uncover 95 regions of the genome linked to PTSD
- Perfect balance: How the brain fine-tunes its sensitivity
- How data provided by fitness trackers and smartphones can help people with MS
- AI tool predicts responses to cancer therapy using information from each cell of the tumor
- Toxic chemicals from microplastics can be absorbed through skin
- Team demonstrates miniature brain stimulator in humans
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Calorie restriction study reveals complexities in how diet impacts aging
- Guidance on energy and macronutrients across the lifespan
- Does using your brain more at work help ward off thinking, memory problems?
- Paper: To understand cognition--and its dysfunction--neuroscientists must learn its rhythms
- New urine-based test detects high-grade prostate cancer, helping men avoid unnecessary biopsies
- Siblings with unique genetic change help scientists progress drug search for type 1 diabetes
- Artificial Intelligence beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems
- Global study reveals health impacts of airborne trace elements
- Genetic variant identified that shaped the human skull base
- Researchers find that accelerated aging biology in the placenta contributes to a rare form of pregnancy-related heart failure
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Adults with congenital heart disease faced higher risk of abnormal heart rhythms
- New data identifies trends in accidental opioid overdoses in children
- Protecting brain cells with cannabinol
- Study identifies new metric for diagnosing autism
- AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson's by ten-fold
- Researchers uncover human DNA repair by nuclear metamorphosis
- Novel robotic training program reduces physician errors placing central lines
- Research explores how a father's diet could shape the health of his offspring
- Tracking a protein's fleeting shape changes
- Study finds increased anxiety and PTSD among people who remained in Ukraine
- New study validates prediction rules for pediatric intra-abdominal and traumatic brain injuries
- Workings of working memory detailed
- Nanoparticle delivery of FZD4 to lung endothelial cells inhibits lung cancer progression and metastases
- Researchers discover urine-based test to detect head and neck cancer
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Common HIV treatments may aid Alzheimer's disease patients
- New treatment method using plasma irradiation promotes faster bone healing
- Real-time detection of infectious disease viruses by searching for molecular fingerprinting
- Molecular causes of different functions of opioid receptors
- Specific nasal cells protect against COVID-19 in children
- 'One ring to rule them all': How actin filaments are assembled by formins
- Health behaviors accumulate and remain relatively stable throughout middle adulthood
- New Inflammatory Bowel Disease testing protocol could speed up diagnosis
- New insights could unlock immunotherapy for rare, deadly eye cancer
- Antibiotics aren't effective for most lower tract respiratory infections
- Physical activity reduces stress-related brain activity to lower cardiovascular disease risk
- Teen stress may raise risk of postpartum depression in adults
- Deadly bacteria show thirst for human blood
- Scientists identify cell vulnerability 'fingerprint' related to Parkinson's, Lewy body dementia
- A third of women experience migraines associated with menstruation, most commonly when premenopausal
- New study sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the development of malignant pediatric brain tumors
- Human muscle map reveals how we try to fight effects of aging
- Epilepsy drug prevents brain tumors in mice with NF1
- Microplastics make their way from the gut to other organs
- Illuminating the path to hearing recovery
- Family and media pressure to lose weight in adolescence linked to how people value themselves almost two decades later
- Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains
Monday, April 15, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
- Decoding the language of cells: Unveiling the proteins behind cellular organelle communication
- Colorless, odorless gas likely linked to alarming rise in non-smoking lung cancer
- Novel CT exam reduces need for invasive artery treatment
- Study reveals potential to reverse lung fibrosis using the body's own healing technique
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Inherited predisposition for higher muscle strength may protect against common morbidities
- A novel machine learning model for the characterization of material surfaces
- Choosing sugary drinks over fruit juice for toddlers linked to risk of adult obesity
- PFAS exposure from high seafood diets may be underestimated
- Scientists uncover a missing link between poor diet and higher cancer risk
- Researchers identify new genetic risk factors for persistent HPV infections
- Two key brain systems are central to psychosis
- Cells putting on a face
- Melanomas resist drugs by 'breaking' genes
- Scientists use wearable technology to detect stress levels during sleep
- Why some people with rheumatoid arthritis have pain without inflammation
- New study finds potential targets at chromosome ends for degenerative disease prevention
- New approach for combating 'resting' bacteria
- First step to untangle DNA: Supercoiled DNA captures gyrase like a lasso ropes cattle
- Study helps explain why childhood maltreatment continues to impact on mental and physical health into adulthood
- New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- AI model can accurately assess PTSD in postpartum women
- New ways to fine tune electrochemistry
- Scientists uncover key resistance mechanism to Wnt inhibitors in pancreatic and colorectal cancers
- Landmark study involving babies in Ireland supports use of Cystic Fibrosis drug in infants from four weeks of age
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy increase risk of cardiovascular death after giving birth
- Safety of a potential new treatment to manage complications from sickle cell disease
- This outdated diabetes drug still has something to offer
- In the drive to deprescribe, heartburn drug study teaches key lessons
- Study lays the basis for new knowledge on gastrointestinal diseases
- Synthetic platelets stanch bleeding, promote healing in animal models
- Parkinson's Disease: New theory on the disease's origins and spread
- Economic burden of childhood verbal abuse by adults estimated at $300 billion globally
- Chemicals stored in home garages linked to ALS risk
- Scientists identify pro-aging 'sugar signature' in the blood of people living with HIV
- Impact of aldehydes on DNA damage and aging
- Does the time of day you move your body make a difference to your health?
- The genesis of our cellular skeleton, image by image
- Researchers identify protein that controls CAR T cell longevity
- New drug prevents flu-related inflammation and lung damage
- How the body switches out of 'fight' mode
- Size of salty snack influences eating behavior that determines amount consumed
- AI powered 'digital twin' models the infant microbiome
- Mixed diets balance nutrition and carbon footprint
- More than half a million global stroke deaths may be tied to climate change
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- A promising target for new RNA therapeutics now accessible
- New insight into combating drug-resistant prostate cancer
- Mechanism of action of the hepatitis B and D virus cell entry inhibitor bulevirtide deciphered
- New way to generate human cartilage
- AI makes retinal imaging 100 times faster, compared to manual method
- Obese and overweight children at risk of iron deficiency
- A new screening protocol can detect aggressive prostate cancers more selectively
- Revascularization enhances quality of life for patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia
- Revolutionary molecular device unleashes potential for targeted drug delivery and self-healing materials
- Connecting lab-grown brain cells provides insight into how our own brains work
- AI-assisted breast-cancer screening may reduce unnecessary testing
- Respiratory allergies: Newly discovered molecule plays a major role in triggering inflammation
- Brain stimulation treatment may improve depression, anxiety in older adults
- Research uncovers differences between men and women in sleep, circadian rhythms and metabolism
- Researchers discover how we perceive bitter taste
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- The genomic architecture of inherited DNA variants
- More premature babies born following Swedish parental leave policy
- New guidelines to help kids build tolerance to food allergens
- Pregnancy accelerates biological aging in a healthy, young adult population
- Targeting vulnerability in B-cell development leads to novel drug combination for leukemia
- Tiny brain bubbles carry complete codes
- Heart disease, depression linked by inflammation
- Cardiology team performs novel heart artery repair with newly approved device
- Beating back bitter taste in medicine
- Machine learning method reveals chromosome locations in individual cell nucleus
- Targeting RAS proteins may prevent relapse in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Nasal spray safely treats recurrent abnormal heart rhythms, clinical trial suggests
- Bacteria in cancer unmasked
- A smarter city skyline for flood safety
- New consensus statement aims to improve endometriosis evaluation
- Periostin shows promise to help fight a common form of esophageal cancer
- Research could unlock more precise prognoses and targeted treatments for children with cancer
- Hope for treating autoimmune diseases
- Can language models read the genome? This one decoded mRNA to make better vaccines
- The surprising connection between male infertility and family cancer risk
- Are lab-grown brain tissues ethical? There is no no-brainer answer
Monday, April 8, 2024
- People make more patient decisions when shown the benefits first
- A pulse of innovation: AI at the service of heart research
- Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis
- Low cardiorespiratory fitness in youth is associated with decreased work ability throughout adulthood
- Prioritizing your phone over your partner affects creativity in the workplace for women
- Bringing multidrug-resistant pathogens to their knees
- Scientists grow 'mini kidneys,' revealing new insights into metabolic defects and potential therapy for polycystic kidney disease
- Stopping aspirin one month after coronary stenting procedures significantly reduces bleeding complications in heart attack patients, study suggests
- Short-term incentives for exercise can lead to sustained increases in activity
- New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health
- PFAS 'forever chemicals' above drinking water guidelines in global source water
- Opening a new front against pancreatic cancer
- How mosquito larva guts could help create highly specific insecticides
- Disparities in sleep health and insomnia may begin at a young age
- Successful 'first in human' clinical trial of pioneering guidance for heart bypass surgery
- Unnecessary use of beta-blockers after a heart attack?
- Exposure to common environmental carcinogens linked to decreased lifespan happiness
- Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer
- Discovery into how chronic lung conditions affect children's immune system
- Microbial signature of colorectal cancer-associated mutations identified in new study
- Mitochondrial roles in antiviral immunity modify manifestations of neurological diseases
- Fans are not a magic bullet for beating the heat!
- New research offers insight into the future understanding of MS and its treatments
- Pristine peatland offers glimpse into pre-industrial atmosphere
- Few newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics succeed in losing weight -- weight gain linked to much higher risk of complications
Saturday, April 6, 2024
- New antibiotic class effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria
- Study finds less invasive, safer option for removing benign pancreatic tumors
- Less extensive breast cancer surgery results in fewer swollen arms
- Nerve cells not entirely 'young at heart'
- First tandem repeat expansions genetic reference maps
- A simple, inexpensive way to make carbon atoms bind together
- Atlas of the human ovary with cell-level resolution is a step toward artificial ovary
- Functional capacity in old age is like an ecosystem that may collapse when disrupted
- RNA that doesn't age
- Rapid, simultaneous detection of multiple bacteria achieved with handheld sensor
- A deep dive into the genetics of alcohol consumption
Friday, April 5, 2024
- An hereditary liver disease cured with the help of gene scissors
- Treatment with anti-inflammatory proteins following heart attack shows promise to reduce the risk of further heart damage
- New tools reveal how genes work and cells organize
- Exercise habits in youth create better health outcomes for some
- Organoids reveal how to protect the brain against dementia and ALS following traumatic injury, according to study
- Feeding the lonely brain
- Prairie voles display signs of human-like depression
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Discovery of how limiting damage from an asthma attack could stop disease
- Large language models respond differently based on user's motivation
- Developing a vaccine for the 'zombie drug' xylazine
- Researchers map how the brain regulates emotions
- Gunshots in American cities twice as likely at night, potentially disrupting sleep for those in earshot, study finds
- Water-based paints: Less stinky, but some still contain potentially hazardous chemicals
- Testing environmental water to monitor COVID-19 spread in unsheltered encampments
- New discovery unravels malaria invasion mechanism
- Pressure determines which embryonic cells become 'organizers'
- Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease shows promise in mouse study
- Working outside the typical 9-5 in younger adulthood may be linked with worse health decades later
- Life expectancy increased as world addressed major killers including diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, and stroke
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Potential treatment targets for Zika virus-related eye abnormalities
- Mosquito detectives track malaria's history
- App may pave way to treatments for no. 1 dementia in under-60s
- Scientists pioneer immunotherapy technique for autoimmune diseases
- YKT6 gene variants cause a new genetic disorder finds a new study
- Scientists further our understanding of how a foodborne bacterium can survive in food preparation environments
- Women with obesity do not need to gain weight during pregnancy, new study suggests
- Researchers develop more broadly protective coronavirus vaccine
- Reducing late-night alcohol sales curbed all violent crimes by 23% annually in a Baltimore neighborhood
- Even moderate alcohol usage during pregnancy linked to birth abnormalities
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Wound treatment gel fights the battle against antibacterial resistance
- Investigators develop novel treatment for T-cell leukemias and lymphomas
- Simulations reveal mechanism behind protein build-up in Parkinson's disease
- AI's ability to detect tumor cells could be key to more accurate bone cancer prognoses
- Blended antioxidant supplement improves cognition and memory in aged mice
- Infant gut microbes have their own circadian rhythm, and diet has little impact on how the microbiome assembles
- Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk
- Researchers produce grafts that replicate the human ear
- New initiative improves detection, evaluation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Discovery has potential to solve the billion-dollar global cost of poorly managed wound healing
- Golfers' risk from pesticides used on turfgrass is likely low
- Universal brain-computer interface lets people play games with just their thoughts
- Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness
- New advance against a form of heart failure prevalent in men
- Cellphone compass can measure tiny concentrations of compounds important for human health
- Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study
- Do sweeteners increase your appetite? New evidence from randomised controlled trial says no
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024
- Cell division quality control 'stopwatch' uncovered
- Single genomic test promises accelerated diagnoses for rare genetic diseases
- Genomic research may help explain cancer resistance in Tasmanian devils
- Familial Alzheimer's disease transferred via bone marrow transplant in mice
- DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains, findings to aid service member IDs going back to World War II
- Virtual rehabilitation provides benefits for stroke recovery
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- For younger women, mental health now may predict heart health later
- How the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells
- Super permeable wearable electronics developed for stable, long-term biosignal monitoring
- Beating by overheating: New strategy to combat cancer
- Alcohol raises heart disease risk, particularly among women
- Study of different autism types finds shared mechanism that may respond to drugs
- More than one billion people around the globe are facing obesity
- ADHD stimulants may increase risk of heart damage in young adults, study finds
- COVID-19 antibody discovery could explain long COVID
- New method developed to isolate HIV particles
- 'Exhausted' immune cells in healthy women could be target for breast cancer prevention
- Synaptic protein change during development offers clues on evolution and disease
- Miscarriages linked to health risks in later pregnancies
- How built environment correlates with risk of cardiovascular disease
- People with depression see no immediate change from common GP assessment, study shows
- Food matters: Healthy diets increase the economic and physical feasibility of 1.5°C
- Earlier puberty onset may be one of the ways that childhood risk factors affect adult cardiometabolic health
- Eggs may not be bad for your heart after all
- Positive associations between premenstrual disorders and perinatal depression
- Researchers racing to develop Paxlovid replacement
- Parental avoidance of toxic exposures could help prevent autism, ADHD in children, new study shows
- Clear shift in arterial diseases in diabetes
- Reverse effects of trauma? Older brain cells linger unexpectedly before their death
- Combining epigenetic cancer medications may have benefit for colorectal cancers and other tumor types
- A combination of approved drugs enhances the delivery of anti-bacterial medications to treat tuberculosis
- New tool provides researchers with improved understanding of stem cell aging in the brain
- Could AI play a role in locating damage to the brain after stroke?
- Researchers introduce enhanced brain signal analysis technique
