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Brain Canada Foundation funds future leaders in Canadian brain research

Twenty early-career researchers from across Canada will receive $100,000 each in funding for innovative projects to better understand the brain, through one of Brain Canada's flagship programs Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research.

28 Oct 2022

CU Anschutz study details the mechanisms behind the link between shingles and strokes

Scientists investigating why people who have had shingles are at a higher risk of stroke, now believe the answer lies within lipid vesicles called exosomes that shuttle proteins and genetic information between cells, according to new research from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

28 Oct 2022

Large listeriosis outbreak in Spain caused by contaminated stuffed pork

Listeria bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes is one of the main routes for food-borne outbreaks.

28 Oct 2022

Study refutes the nicotinic hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanism

A new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein does not bind to human AChR’s orthosteric sites, nor does it compete with ACh, choline, or nicotine.

28 Oct 2022

E-cigarette use alters respiration but does not impair lung function, according to new findings

A new study indicated that although vaping increases airway resistance, it does not impact lung function.

28 Oct 2022

When monkeypox reaches rural communities, it collides with strained public health systems

When a case of monkeypox was reported in Nevada's Humboldt County in August, it was the state's first detected occurrence of the virus in a rural area. Soon, cases were found in other rural counties — Nye, Lyon, and Elko — posing another hurdle for public health systems that have been worn thin by the covid-19 pandemic.

28 Oct 2022

The dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation

Researchers studied the dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation—a general tendency to believe in conspiracy theories.

28 Oct 2022

Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, says Annual Report to the Nation

Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the United States from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. From 2014 to 2018, overall cancer incidence, or new cases of cancer, remained stable for men and children but increased for women and adolescents and young adults.

28 Oct 2022

AI models improve the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease

Several recent discoveries show that the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease and predicting patient risk is improved with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) models developed by scientists in the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.

28 Oct 2022

Research reveals a differential clinical response to pembrolizumab in uterine cancer patients

New research from Yale Cancer Center reveals for the first time ever a differential clinical response to pembrolizumab in Lynch-like (mutated) vs methylated microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) uterine cancer patients, increasing our understanding about the proportion of patients that derive benefit from immune checkpoint blockade.

28 Oct 2022

Yeast reveals a key mechanism in how genes are controlled

Yeast, that simple organism essential to making beer and bread, has revealed for Cornell University researchers a key mechanism in how genes are controlled.

28 Oct 2022

New breakthrough in understanding how deletion of certain genes can lead to cancer growth

Genetic mutations kick start cancers. Some mutations shuffle the genetic code, others come from the deletion of key genes.

28 Oct 2022

ADOS testing not required for ASD diagnosis by developmental-behavioral pediatricians

Trained developmental-behavioral pediatricians can generally diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in young children without the need for additional Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) testing, finds a prospective multicenter study.

28 Oct 2022

Proof-of-principle study: Novel tool advances potential way to deliver gene therapy

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have successfully used a cell's natural process for making proteins to "slide" genetic instructions into a cell and produce critical proteins missing from those cells.

28 Oct 2022

Researchers unravel the precise mechanism of nuclear envelope repair in human and mouse cells

All living cells harbor nuclei - key biological structures that play an important role in information storage, retrieval, and duplication of genetic information.

28 Oct 2022

Low-density granulocytes are phenotypically altered in people with long-COVID

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers characterized low-density granulocyte (LDG) neutrophil (NP) proportion among individuals up to 14 months post-SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) infection.

28 Oct 2022

Commensal gut microbes from IBD patients produce genotoxic metabolites

Functional screening of human gut microbiota reveals a family of small molecule genotoxins called indolimines in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study.

27 Oct 2022

Ancient viral DNA in human genomes protects cells against present-day viruses

Viral DNA in human genomes, embedded there from ancient infections, serve as antivirals that protect human cells against certain present-day viruses, according to new research.

27 Oct 2022

Rutgers physicians take newer approach in successfully treating a mysterious disease

The prognosis for the sick child, who hadn't responded to standard treatment, was dire. But a team of Rutgers physicians believed there might be hope despite the conventional wisdom against pursuing any further treatment.

27 Oct 2022

Researchers use CRISPR-edited T cells to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to engineer donor T cells to try to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia, who had otherwise exhausted all available therapies.

27 Oct 2022

Research News and Research

Brain Canada Foundation funds future leaders in Canadian brain research

CU Anschutz study details the mechanisms behind the link between shingles and strokes

Large listeriosis outbreak in Spain caused by contaminated stuffed pork

Study refutes the nicotinic hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanism

E-cigarette use alters respiration but does not impair lung function, according to new findings

When monkeypox reaches rural communities, it collides with strained public health systems

The dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation

Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, says Annual Report to the Nation

AI models improve the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease

Research reveals a differential clinical response to pembrolizumab in uterine cancer patients

Yeast reveals a key mechanism in how genes are controlled

New breakthrough in understanding how deletion of certain genes can lead to cancer growth

ADOS testing not required for ASD diagnosis by developmental-behavioral pediatricians

Proof-of-principle study: Novel tool advances potential way to deliver gene therapy

Researchers unravel the precise mechanism of nuclear envelope repair in human and mouse cells

Low-density granulocytes are phenotypically altered in people with long-COVID

Commensal gut microbes from IBD patients produce genotoxic metabolites

Ancient viral DNA in human genomes protects cells against present-day viruses

Rutgers physicians take newer approach in successfully treating a mysterious disease

Researchers use CRISPR-edited T cells to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

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