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SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

A Saint Louis University School of Medicine scientist and SLUCare physician has received funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS).

16 Mar 2022

Blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant patients with COVID-19

A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have had COVID-19.

16 Mar 2022

Study finds a causal link between deforestation and reduction in people's dietary quality

Current policies for guaranteeing food security emphasize the importance of farmland, but forests play critical roles as well.

16 Mar 2022

Study delineates how drug-induced changes of conscious awareness are rooted in neurotransmitter receptors

Psychedelics are now a rapidly growing area of neuroscience and clinical research, one that may produce much-needed new therapies for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.

16 Mar 2022

Potential Covid-19 vaccine may offer an inexpensive, easy-to-store alternative to RNA vaccines

While many people in wealthier countries have been vaccinated against Covid-19, there is still a need for vaccination in much of the world.

16 Mar 2022

Toxin-producing yeast strains may damage the gut of patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Individual Candida albicans yeast strains in the human gut are as different from each other as the humans that carry them, and some C. albicans strains may damage the gut of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

16 Mar 2022

Highly sensitive PCR test for COVID-19 receives FDA emergency use authorization

A new highly sensitive, easy-to-use test for COVID-19 that requires a single swab and 15 minutes has received emergency use authorization (EUA) status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

16 Mar 2022

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

Medical imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in health care with providers ordering dozens of imaging studies for their patients every day.

16 Mar 2022

Yale researchers uncover how to control the blood-brain barrier with a molecule

The brain is composed of billions of neurons - vulnerable cells that require a protective environment to function properly.

16 Mar 2022

UQ researchers discover a molecule essential for regulating nerve repair

Researchers at The University of Queensland have identified a molecule essential for regulating the repair of injured nerves, which could help people recover from nerve damage.

16 Mar 2022

Pressure drives sudden burst of rapid and coordinated cellular motion in 3D tumor model

Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells.

16 Mar 2022

New insight into how gut bacteria work to counter intestinal inflammation

Bile acids made by the liver have long been known for their critical role in helping to absorb the food we ingest.

16 Mar 2022

Scientists discover mechanism that enables Listeria-infected cells to escape immune responses

Some "hypervirulent" strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system.

16 Mar 2022

Tracking the mutating coronavirus variants

Viruses continuously and naturally evolve. To track coronavirus variants, we need to think like Darwin.

16 Mar 2022

Raising tax on cigarettes averts thousands of newborn deaths, study reveals

The first global analysis of its kind estimates that if every country's cigarette taxes had met the World Health Organization's recommendations, around 182,000 newborn deaths could have been averted in 2018.

16 Mar 2022

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome as a late complication in COVID-19 infected children

Researchers determined the immune signature of the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children among hospitalized children diagnosed with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.

16 Mar 2022

Sneaking large drug-carrying biological molecules into cells using a novel drug delivery system

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a novel method of delivering drugs into human cells using large biological molecules, by first encasing them in a protein-based microdroplet.

16 Mar 2022

Study evaluates monoclonal antibody treatment for pregnant COVID-19 patients

Researchers evaluated COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment in pregnant and postpartum women.

16 Mar 2022

Prolonged unconsciousness is common in COVID-19 patients, recovery often takes days or even weeks

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients in intensive care units did not recover consciousness after their breathing tubes were removed and their sedation was stopped, leaving clinicians and families with difficult decisions about whether to continue life-sustaining therapy.

16 Mar 2022

Epigenetic changes could be a biomarker for early detection of type 1 diabetes

Children who develop type 1 diabetes show epigenetic changes in the cells of their immune system already before the antibodies of the disease are detected in their blood.

16 Mar 2022

Research News and Research

SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

Blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant patients with COVID-19

Study finds a causal link between deforestation and reduction in people's dietary quality

Study delineates how drug-induced changes of conscious awareness are rooted in neurotransmitter receptors

Potential Covid-19 vaccine may offer an inexpensive, easy-to-store alternative to RNA vaccines

Toxin-producing yeast strains may damage the gut of patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Highly sensitive PCR test for COVID-19 receives FDA emergency use authorization

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

Yale researchers uncover how to control the blood-brain barrier with a molecule

UQ researchers discover a molecule essential for regulating nerve repair

Pressure drives sudden burst of rapid and coordinated cellular motion in 3D tumor model

New insight into how gut bacteria work to counter intestinal inflammation

Scientists discover mechanism that enables Listeria-infected cells to escape immune responses

Tracking the mutating coronavirus variants

Raising tax on cigarettes averts thousands of newborn deaths, study reveals

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome as a late complication in COVID-19 infected children

Sneaking large drug-carrying biological molecules into cells using a novel drug delivery system

Study evaluates monoclonal antibody treatment for pregnant COVID-19 patients

Prolonged unconsciousness is common in COVID-19 patients, recovery often takes days or even weeks

Epigenetic changes could be a biomarker for early detection of type 1 diabetes

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