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Y chromosome loss in men can lead to deadly heart failure, research shows

The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead to deadly heart failure, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows.

14 Jul 2022

A stepped regimen of anti-VEFG drugs leads to good vision outcomes in diabetic macular edema

Clinical trial results from the DRCR Retina Network suggest that a specific step strategy, in which patients with diabetic macular edema start with a less expensive medicine and switch to a more expensive medicine if vision does not improve sufficiently, gives results similar to starting off with the higher-priced drug.

14 Jul 2022

Early treatment with interferons could mitigate severe COVID-19 in people with specific genetic factors

Researchers from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and their collaborators have discovered that people of European and African ancestries who were hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to carry a particular combination of genetic variants in a gene known as OAS1 than patients with mild disease who were not hospitalized.

14 Jul 2022

Video game intervention improves attention and executive functioning in patients with lupus

A National Jewish Health led study recently published in Lupus finds that technology through video game-based cognitive therapy improves attention and executive functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

14 Jul 2022

Researchers may be one step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes

Australian researchers may be a step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes after identifying a crucial protein that could prevent the autoimmune disease from taking hold.

14 Jul 2022

New center aims to accelerate research into biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

A new center established at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis aims to accelerate research into biomarkers of neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis (MS) and the so-called tauopathies, a group that includes Alzheimer's disease along with rarer diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal syndrome and progressive supranuclear palsy.

13 Jul 2022

Maternal milk intake associated with greater academic achievement, higher IQs in children born preterm

Children who were born preterm are at heightened risk of lower academic achievement in math, reading and other skills and are also at greater risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

13 Jul 2022

Study finds a drop in percentage of methadone-involved overdose deaths from January 2019 to August 2021

The percentage of methadone-involved overdose deaths relative to all drug overdose deaths declined from January 2019 to August 2021, according to a new study.

13 Jul 2022

Study: Off-road motorcycles cause higher rate of injuries among kids than quad bikes

Motorcycles cause a far higher rate of injuries among children than quad bikes do, a study from UNSW Sydney and NeuRA has found, but quad bikes account for more serious individual injuries.

13 Jul 2022

Commonly used blood test may not pick up kidney disease for people in Africa

A commonly used blood test which measures how well a person's kidneys are working may not pick up kidney disease for people in Africa, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health.

13 Jul 2022

Study suggests ZCB11 as a promising antibody drug against all SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Researchers at the AIDS Institute, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, the LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong and the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, HKU, together with structural biologists at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, have demonstrated that ZCB11, a broadly neutralizing antibody derived from a local mRNA-vaccinee against the spreading Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, displays potent antiviral activities against all variants of concern (VOCs), including the dominantly spreading Omicron BA.1, BA1.1 and BA.2.

13 Jul 2022

Scientists capture a clear picture of the nuclear pore complex using X-rays

Your body is made of close to 100 trillion cells that keep you healthy and alive. Each cell has billions of parts of its own, all of them working in tandem to keep life's processes moving.

11 Jul 2022

Exposure to multiple phthalates during pregnancy increases risk of preterm birth

Pregnant women who were exposed to multiple phthalates during pregnancy had an increased risk of preterm birth, according to new research by the National Institutes of Health.

11 Jul 2022

UT Southwestern researchers reveal the physical mechanism behind a neurological autoimmune disease

Using UT Southwestern's Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, researchers for the first time have captured images of an autoantibody bound to a nerve cell surface receptor, revealing the physical mechanism behind a neurological autoimmune disease.

11 Jul 2022

Novel molecular pathway may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus

A novel molecular pathway involving cell signaling proteins in the brain may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus with diffuse neuropsychological manifestations.

11 Jul 2022

Researchers discover the first effective drug to treat rare, genetic liver disease

Researchers at Saint Louis University's School of Medicine, in collaboration with Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, report the first effective drug to treat a rare, genetic liver disease that formerly could only be treated with a liver transplant.

8 Jul 2022

Revolutionary technology identifies molecular alterations in failing hearts at single-cell resolution

Imagine, if scientists had a map of the heart, so granular in its accuracy that it even profiled details of the heart at the cellular level.

8 Jul 2022

Study shows how tau protein, critical to Alzheimer's, turns from normal to diseased state

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, currently has no cure or effective therapy, in part due to gaps in our understanding of how the progressive neurodegenerative disorder arises in the brain.

8 Jul 2022

GI cancer survival rates improving among Northern Territorians except for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Survival rates for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer among Northern Territorians have improved in the past 30 years but Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in the Territory still have worse survival outcomes, a new analysis has found.

8 Jul 2022

Disrupting genes in the yeast Pichia pastori to increase its secretory production of useful proteins

A collaboration including researchers from Kobe University, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University has successfully identified and disrupted genes in the yeast Pichia pastoris (1) in order to increase its secretory production of useful proteins (2).

8 Jul 2022

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Y chromosome loss in men can lead to deadly heart failure, research shows

A stepped regimen of anti-VEFG drugs leads to good vision outcomes in diabetic macular edema

Early treatment with interferons could mitigate severe COVID-19 in people with specific genetic factors

Video game intervention improves attention and executive functioning in patients with lupus

Researchers may be one step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes

New center aims to accelerate research into biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

Maternal milk intake associated with greater academic achievement, higher IQs in children born preterm

Study finds a drop in percentage of methadone-involved overdose deaths from January 2019 to August 2021

Study: Off-road motorcycles cause higher rate of injuries among kids than quad bikes

Commonly used blood test may not pick up kidney disease for people in Africa

Study suggests ZCB11 as a promising antibody drug against all SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Scientists capture a clear picture of the nuclear pore complex using X-rays

Exposure to multiple phthalates during pregnancy increases risk of preterm birth

UT Southwestern researchers reveal the physical mechanism behind a neurological autoimmune disease

Novel molecular pathway may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus

Researchers discover the first effective drug to treat rare, genetic liver disease

Revolutionary technology identifies molecular alterations in failing hearts at single-cell resolution

Study shows how tau protein, critical to Alzheimer's, turns from normal to diseased state

GI cancer survival rates improving among Northern Territorians except for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Disrupting genes in the yeast Pichia pastori to increase its secretory production of useful proteins

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