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New study could improve methods for detecting congenital heart disease

A new study by biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas could significantly improve methods for detecting and diagnosing congenital heart disease in infants and small children.

4 Apr 2019

Developing imaging techniques for early detection of eye and brain diseases

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but to scientists, they are also the window to the brain. In particular, the retina, a delicate light-sensing neural network with specialized cells at the back of the eyeball, is linked directly to the brain via the optic nerve and is considered by some to be part of the brain itself.

4 Apr 2019

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

The United States faces a converging public health crisis as the nation's opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of certain infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections.

4 Apr 2019

New computational model of human kinase may provide insights for cancer drug development

Researchers have developed a computational model for human MEK1, a protein with potential as a drug target for a variety of human cancers.

4 Apr 2019

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded an international consortium led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, a five-year, $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against four highly lethal viruses for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments.

4 Apr 2019

Just 20-minute contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, study finds

Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels.

4 Apr 2019

New immune-based therapy eliminates HPV in one-third of women with cervical precancerous lesions

A potential new immune-based therapy to treat precancers in the cervix completely eliminated both the lesion and the underlying HPV infection in a third of women enrolled in a clinical trial.

4 Apr 2019

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial communities--they provide a haven for microbes and are often resistant to antibiotics.

4 Apr 2019

Alterations in brain functional connectivity associated with somatic symptom disorder

Alterations in functional connectivity of the brain may help in understanding the neurobiological changes leading to somatic symptom disorder, reports a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society.

4 Apr 2019

Physicians Committee launches new effort to encourage people to donate organ and tissue

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine--a nonprofit with more than 175,000 members including doctors, scientists, and laypeople--has launched a new effort today to encourage people to become organ and tissue donors to help scientists save human lives and reduce and replace animal experiments.

4 Apr 2019

Hepatitis C-infected thoracic organs can be safely transplanted, study finds

Infectious diseases experts and transplant physicians and surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital have blocked the transmission of hepatitis C from infected organ donors to recipients in need of hearts or lungs.

4 Apr 2019

NIHR funded team to establish new global health group to address smokeless tobacco use

Researchers at the University of York have shown that regulations on smokeless tobacco are still lacking, despite 181 countries agreeing to a common approach to controlling the demand and supply.

4 Apr 2019

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

In a first on the quest to cure HIV, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health scientists report today in EBioMedicine that they've developed an all-in-one immunotherapy approach that not only kicks HIV out of hiding in the immune system, but also kills it.

4 Apr 2019

Mutation in Huntington’s disease may alter interactions of Huntingtin protein with Rac1

Since 1993, when the gene that causes Huntington's disease was identified, there has been intense focus on understanding how this genetic mutation causes the disease's severe progressive neural deterioration.

4 Apr 2019

Researchers use metal-free catalyst to synthesize ketone from aldehyde

Ketones are important organic compounds found in a variety of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and natural products.

4 Apr 2019

Researchers receive grants to study genetics of contact-lens wearers with and without MK

More than 125 million people worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many are exposed to relatively common bacteria through their contact lenses, not all contract an eye infection.

4 Apr 2019

New technology could change the way gene editing is approached in future

Gene editing has been a much sought after and controversial technology. Last month, part of the World Health Organization called for an international registry to track all research into editing the human genome.

4 Apr 2019

Drug that looks at Alzheimer’s differently ready for its first in-human testing

Alzheimer's disease wreaks emotional havoc on patients, who are robbed of their memories, their dignity, and their lives.

4 Apr 2019

Novel computer model reveals unintended consequences of cocaine interdiction

Efforts to curtail the flow of cocaine into the United States from South America have made drug trafficking operations more widespread and harder to eradicate, according to new research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

4 Apr 2019

Study identifies possible way to predict which melanomas are hot and cold

Melanomas tend to be "hot" or "cold" - if they're hot, immunotherapy lights melanoma tumors like beacons for elimination by the immune system; but 40-50 percent of melanomas are cold, making them invisible to the immune system, and patients with cold tumors tend to show little benefit from immunotherapies.

4 Apr 2019

Research News and Research

New study could improve methods for detecting congenital heart disease

Developing imaging techniques for early detection of eye and brain diseases

Opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of some infectious diseases

New computational model of human kinase may provide insights for cancer drug development

NIAID awards $22 million grant to develop antibody-based therapies against lethal viruses

Just 20-minute contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, study finds

New immune-based therapy eliminates HPV in one-third of women with cervical precancerous lesions

Patent-pending probiotic could help patients with gastrointestinal diseases avoid harmful biofilms

Alterations in brain functional connectivity associated with somatic symptom disorder

Physicians Committee launches new effort to encourage people to donate organ and tissue

Hepatitis C-infected thoracic organs can be safely transplanted, study finds

NIHR funded team to establish new global health group to address smokeless tobacco use

New all-in-one immunotherapy approach kicks out hiding HIV and also kills it

Mutation in Huntington’s disease may alter interactions of Huntingtin protein with Rac1

Researchers use metal-free catalyst to synthesize ketone from aldehyde

Researchers receive grants to study genetics of contact-lens wearers with and without MK

New technology could change the way gene editing is approached in future

Drug that looks at Alzheimer’s differently ready for its first in-human testing

Novel computer model reveals unintended consequences of cocaine interdiction

Study identifies possible way to predict which melanomas are hot and cold

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