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Category: 4. Health

  • A step closer to the confident production of blood stem cells for regenerative medicine

    A step closer to the confident production of blood stem cells for regenerative medicine

    Researchers from the Stem Cells and Cancer team at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute have developed a method to confidently produce blood cell precursors from stem cells in mice, by activating a set of seven key genes in the laboratory. The team, led by Dr Anna Bigas, takes a step forward towards the production of precursor cells able to restore the bone marrow of blood cancer patients, in a successful example of regenerative…

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  • How do middle-aged folks get dementia? It could be these proteins

    How do middle-aged folks get dementia? It could be these proteins

    Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is often mistaken for depression, schizophrenia, or Parkinson’s disease before the correct diagnosis is reached.

    Now, as part of an NIH-funded study, researchers at UC San Francisco have found some clues about how FTD develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more patients into clinical trials. The findings appear in…

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  • Relieve your pain with a psychologist or an app

    Relieve your pain with a psychologist or an app

    Psychological treatment can relieve pain. New research from Aarhus BSS now shows what happens in the brain — and what specific treatments psychologists, doctors and patients can turn to.

    Back pain, migraines, arthritis, long-term concussion symptoms, complications following cancer treatment.

    These are just a few of the conditions linked to chronic pain, which affects one in five adults — and for which medication is not always the answer.

    Now, a new review study offers insight into how…

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  • How antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works

    How antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works

    In a new article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic fusidic acid? With a stop-motion movie at the atomic level, they can show that the resistance protein FusB works nearly like a crowbar.

    Antibiotic resistance is a global issue that requires action and research at many levels. This study…

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  • Novel molecular maneuver helps malaria parasite dodge the immune system

    Novel molecular maneuver helps malaria parasite dodge the immune system

    Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body’s immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, can shut down a key set of genes, rendering itself “immunologically invisible.”

    “This finding provides another piece of the puzzle as to why malaria has been so difficult to eradicate,” said Dr. Francesca Florini, research associate in microbiology…

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  • New auditory brainstem implant shows early promise

    New auditory brainstem implant shows early promise

    A new study co-led by Mass General Brigham researchers points to a promising new type of auditory brainstem implant (ABI) that could benefit people who are deaf due to Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and other severe inner ear abnormalities that prevent them from receiving cochlear implants. With further tests and trials, researchers hope it will provide a more effective treatment alternative than what is currently used.

    In the new research, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering,…

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  • Study reveals impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on the whole body

    Study reveals impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on the whole body

    While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (Duncan NRI) and collaborating institutions provide a new understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease affects different tissues across the entire body. The findings, published…

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  • In healthy aging, carb quality counts

    In healthy aging, carb quality counts

    Intakes of dietary fiber, high-quality and total carbohydrates in midlife were favorably linked to healthy aging and other positive health outcomes in older women, according to a new study by researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study was published May 16 in the journal JAMA Network Open.

    “We’ve all heard that different carbohydrates can affect health differently, whether…

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  • Thousands of cardiac ‘digital twins’ offer new insights into the heart

    Thousands of cardiac ‘digital twins’ offer new insights into the heart

    For the first time, researchers from King’s College London, Imperial College London and The Alan Turing Institute, have created over 3,800 anatomically accurate digital hearts to investigate how age, sex and lifestyle factors influence heart disease and electrical function.

    Creating cardiac ‘digital twins’ at this scale has helped scientists discover that age and obesity cause changes in the heart’s electrical properties, which could explain why these factors are linked to a higher risk of…

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  • Some science seems silly, but it’s still worthwhile

    Some science seems silly, but it’s still worthwhile

    The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog
    Carly Anne York
    Basic Books, $30

    What’s the purpose of your study? It’s the question many basic-science researchers dread. And it’s the question that Carly Anne York received about 10 years ago from a fellow volunteer at the Virginia Zoo. At the time, York was a Ph.D. student studying squid biomechanics. When the volunteer, a retired army officer, probed why taxpayer dollars should be spent on what he called “silly science,”…

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