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Nothing to sneeze at: The $2,659 bill to pluck doll’s shoe from child’s nostril

It was supposed to be a fun evening out for Katy and Michael Branson. But their 3-year-old daughter, Lucy, apparently had other ideas.

26 Nov 2019

Researchers find pupillary changes in high-school athletes after high-acceleration head impacts

Researchers from the University of Michigan found significant pupillary changes in high-school football athletes after they had sustained a high-acceleration head impact.

26 Nov 2019

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: How’s that open enrollment going?

Open enrollment for 2020 health coverage under the Affordable Care Act is halfway over. So far, sign-ups appear to be lagging behind last year’s, but not dramatically.

26 Nov 2019

Study points to two types of motion that keeps cells in shape

The health of cells is maintained, in part, by two types of movement of their nucleoli, a team of scientists has found. This dual motion within surrounding fluid, it reports, adds to our understanding of what contributes to healthy cellular function and points to how its disruption could affect human health.

26 Nov 2019

Did Joe Biden overstate democratic voters’ opposition to ‘Medicare for All’?

When the subject of "Medicare for All" came up during the Democratic debate last week, former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the majority of his party does not favor it.

26 Nov 2019

LACV-infected cerebral organoids reveal how to protect neurons from virus-induced death

Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus, which can cause inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, in children, affects brain cells differently depending on their developmental stage.

26 Nov 2019

Mcl-1 inhibition blocks cell survival in ER+ breast cancers

While estrogen receptor - + breast cancers express high levels of three anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, pharmacological inhibition of Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-xL fails to induce cell death in ER + breast cancer cell lines, due to rapid and robust Mcl-1 upregulation.

26 Nov 2019

Study examines how our brain fuses with musical rhythm

When listening to a song or watching a dance, humans tend to follow the rhythm of the music. This is because one fundamental aspect of music is its rhythm, the way we synchronize with the temporal regularities of a melody or a dance. A recent study explores how our brain fuses with musical rhythm and the extent to which humans share this ability with other animals.

26 Nov 2019

Splicing factor enhances ability of triple negative breast cancers to grow and metastasize

If your DNA is a cookbook, a single gene is a recipe. But it's a flexible recipe that if edited one way can make a pie; edited another way can make a cake. And that difference can mean cancer, as a team of researchers who looked at those gene editors writes in the 26 November issue of Cell Reports.

26 Nov 2019

Validation of new method for studying how different drugs interact in the body

Scientists at Oregon State University may have proven how much people love coffee, tea, chocolate, soda and energy drinks as they validated their new method for studying how different drugs interact in the body.

26 Nov 2019

Giving a shot of ketamine could help heavy drinkers reduce alcohol intake

A one-off dose of ketamine could help heavy drinkers reduce their alcohol intake, finds a new UCL experimental study.

26 Nov 2019

Study shows how fiber spacing could control cell sticking

Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore have shown that cells can attach to the fibrous protein meshwork that surrounds them only if the fibers are spaced close enough.

26 Nov 2019

Innovative migraine prophylaxis could endanger people with chronic high blood pressure

The neuropeptide αCGRP (α calcitonin gene-related peptide) works in two different ways. It leads to inflammation and dilates the blood vessels right at the release point of the nerve cells, for example in the meninges, which can trigger migraine attacks. However, it has a completely different effect on the heart, as has now been discovered by a team of researchers at the University of Zurich.

26 Nov 2019

Stem cells do not take the day off on national holidays

While most of us are stuffing ourselves with turkey and pumpkin pie at home on Thanksgiving Day, the staff at one Cedars-Sinai laboratory will be on the job, feeding stem cells.

26 Nov 2019

A large library of products derived from fungi could help find new drugs

An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help us find new drugs.

26 Nov 2019

Study finds increase in medical students' disclosures of disabilities

The percentage of medical students who told their schools that they have a disability rose sharply in recent years, a new study shows.

26 Nov 2019

Broadly expressed metabolic approach could make sarcoma susceptible to targeted therapies

Soft tissue sarcoma cells stop a key metabolic process which allows them to multiply and spread, and so restarting that process could leave these cancers vulnerable to a variety of treatments.

26 Nov 2019

Targeting molecular mechanisms could be beneficial in diabetic wound care

When our skin is damaged, a whole set of biological processes springs into action to heal the wound. Now, researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research have shown that one of the molecules involved in this, HMGB1, slows down wound healing.

26 Nov 2019

Study finds increase in overall rate of exposure to natural psychoactive substances

Natural substances with psychoactive effects have been used by people for religious, medicinal and recreational purposes for millennia.

26 Nov 2019

New way to thwart HIV infection at early stages

1.7 million. That's how many people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each year worldwide. 1.7 million people who are condemned to lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) or risk developing fatal AIDS . Out of the 37.9 million people living with HIV (PLWH), 22.3 million have access to ART, allowing them to have an almost normal lifespan.

26 Nov 2019

Research News and Research

Nothing to sneeze at: The $2,659 bill to pluck doll’s shoe from child’s nostril

Researchers find pupillary changes in high-school athletes after high-acceleration head impacts

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: How’s that open enrollment going?

Study points to two types of motion that keeps cells in shape

Did Joe Biden overstate democratic voters’ opposition to ‘Medicare for All’?

LACV-infected cerebral organoids reveal how to protect neurons from virus-induced death

Mcl-1 inhibition blocks cell survival in ER+ breast cancers

Study examines how our brain fuses with musical rhythm

Splicing factor enhances ability of triple negative breast cancers to grow and metastasize

Validation of new method for studying how different drugs interact in the body

Giving a shot of ketamine could help heavy drinkers reduce alcohol intake

Study shows how fiber spacing could control cell sticking

Innovative migraine prophylaxis could endanger people with chronic high blood pressure

Stem cells do not take the day off on national holidays

A large library of products derived from fungi could help find new drugs

Study finds increase in medical students' disclosures of disabilities

Broadly expressed metabolic approach could make sarcoma susceptible to targeted therapies

Targeting molecular mechanisms could be beneficial in diabetic wound care

Study finds increase in overall rate of exposure to natural psychoactive substances

New way to thwart HIV infection at early stages

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