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Category: 4. Health

  • Influenza virus hacks cell’s internal system

    Influenza virus hacks cell’s internal system

    The influenza virus manipulates the body’s gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Their study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen immune defenses — though its effect in humans remains to be confirmed.

    The study, published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, concerns a previously unknown strategy used by the influenza A virus to take over the body’s own systems. The study shows that the…

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  • Urine test could reveal early prostate cancer

    Urine test could reveal early prostate cancer

    A newly published study involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet indicates that prostate cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage through a simple urine sample. With the aid of AI and extensive analyses of gene activity in tumours, they have identified new biomarkers of high diagnostic precision.

    Prostate cancer is one of the most common causes of male death globally. One of the main diagnostic hurdles is the lack of exact biomarkers able to identify the presence of an early…

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  • Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows

    Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows

    A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford, published today (28 April) in JAMA Pediatrics, offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths are recorded. Nevertheless, the study confirms the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal death rates for women of all racial and ethnic groups.

    The study, based on data from 2000 to…

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  • Updated equestrian helmet ratings system adds racing and high-speed events

    Updated equestrian helmet ratings system adds racing and high-speed events

    Falling off a horse at high-speed changes the impact to the rider’s head and the parameters for a quality helmet, according to new research from the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab.

    Published on April 28 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, the findings from researchers Steve Rowson and Lauren Duma indicate that head impacts during falls at high speed generate unique head rotation, which in turn, directly affects helmet behavior.

    “Rotational motion of the head is very important,” said Rowson,…

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  • Study using simulations highlights power of pooled data in environmental health research

    Study using simulations highlights power of pooled data in environmental health research

    Conflicting findings in environmental epidemiology have long stalled consensus on the health effects of toxic chemicals. A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that one major reason for these inconsistencies may be the limited exposure ranges in individual studies — leading to underpowered results and unclear conclusions.

    Researchers used simulated data to examine how well individual and pooled studies…

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  • Largest osteoarthritis genetic study uncovers pathways to new therapies and repurposed drugs

    Largest osteoarthritis genetic study uncovers pathways to new therapies and repurposed drugs

    Researchers have uncovered multiple new genes and genetic pathways that could lead to repurposing hundreds of existing drugs for osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis.

    The research, which analyzed data from nearly 2 million people in diverse populations worldwide, was recently published in Nature. It represents an extensive genetic exploration of osteoarthritis, a condition affecting over 600 million people globally.

    Conducted by an international team led by Helmholtz Munich in…

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  • Trouble hearing in noisy places and crowded spaces? Researchers say new algorithm could help hearing aid users

    Trouble hearing in noisy places and crowded spaces? Researchers say new algorithm could help hearing aid users

    When a group of friends gets together at a bar or gathers for an intimate dinner, conversations can quickly multiply and mix, with different groups and pairings chatting over and across one another. Navigating this lively jumble of words — and focusing on the ones that matter — is particularly difficult for people with some form of hearing loss. Bustling conversations can become a fused mess of chatter, even if someone has hearing aids, which often struggle filtering out background noise….

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  • A drug dismantles a metabolic barrier to anti-tumor immunity

    A drug dismantles a metabolic barrier to anti-tumor immunity

    A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a specific mode of fat uptake by immune cells within tumors that serves as a metabolic checkpoint against anti-cancer immune responses. Harnessing that insight, researchers led by Ludwig Lausanne’s Ping-Chih Ho and Yi-Ru Yu — along with Sheue-Fen Tzeng and Chin-Hsien Tsai, former post-docs in the Ho lab who now lead their own labs at Taipei Medical University in Taiwan — have developed a humanized antibody to dismantle that barrier as a…

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  • First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies

    First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies

    Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands (or fibrils) of misfolded tau proteins, which then transmit their abnormally folded shape to other normal tau proteins.

    Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression of tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases — including Alzheimer’s disease — characterized by the…

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  • Brain decoder controls spinal cord stimulation

    Brain decoder controls spinal cord stimulation

    When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain is functioning normally, as is the spinal cord below the injury, researchers have been working to re-establish the communication to allow for rehabilitation and potentially restore movement.

    Ismael Seáñez, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at…

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