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Dartmouth researchers receive grant to study acute kidney injury

Over two million people in the United States undergo cardiac catheterization each year. While the procedure is used effectively for both diagnostic and interventional purposes, it is not without risk: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in up to 14 percent of all patients following a cardiac catheterization and up to 50 percent in patients with pre-existing kidney disease.

11 Oct 2018

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

King's College London was today announced as the first partner to adopt the NVIDIA DGX-2 and NVIDIA Clara platform.

11 Oct 2018

New publication offers evidence-based content for global breast imaging medical community

JBI is a peer-reviewed publication that aims to provide high quality, evidence-based content for the global breast imaging medical community.

11 Oct 2018

Researchers develop new techniques for faster detection of Lyme disease bacteria

Researchers have developed techniques to detect Lyme disease bacteria weeks sooner than current tests, allowing patients to start treatment earlier.

11 Oct 2018

Common gene variants linked to migraine risk in African-American children

Pediatric researchers have discovered common gene variants associated with migraines in African-American children.

11 Oct 2018

Carnegie scientist awarded NIH grant to identify novel medicines for cardiovascular disease

Carnegie's Department of Embryology scientist Steven Farber and team have been awarded a 5-year $3.3-million NIH grant to identify novel pharmaceuticals for combatting a host of diseases associated with altered levels of lipoproteins like LDL ("bad cholesterol").

11 Oct 2018

Study shows that one amino acid may produce short-term lowering of glucose levels

Type 2 diabetes is driven by many metabolic pathways, with some pathways driven by amino acids, the molecular building blocks for proteins.

11 Oct 2018

Good bacterium in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus

A new study from National Institutes of Health scientists and their Thai colleagues shows that a "good" bacterium commonly found in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that can cause serious antibiotic-resistant infections.

11 Oct 2018

Personalized goal setting to improve dementia care

Dementia is a health condition that affects your memory in ways that can make it difficult to carry out your usual daily tasks. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, which causes abnormal changes that kill brain cells.

11 Oct 2018

Researchers unravel fresh clues as to how kidney stones form

Kidney stones--solid, pebble-like grit that forms when too much of certain minerals like calcium are in the urine--can strike men, women, and increasingly, children, and the presence and pain of stones afflicts more than 12 percent of the world's population.

11 Oct 2018

Prenatal fluoride exposure linked to ADHD symptoms in children

Higher levels of urinary fluoride during pregnancy are associated with more ADHD-like symptoms in school-age children, according to University of Toronto and York University researchers.

11 Oct 2018

Research: Greater use of e-cigarettes has potential to help people give up smoking

"Ongoing nervousness" about the use of e-cigarettes in stop-smoking services can be a "significant" barrier to people finding support, research revealed during "Stoptober" shows.

11 Oct 2018

Color-changing contact lens could help doctors to monitor eye disease medications

For all the good they do, eye drops and ointments have one major drawback: It's hard to tell how much of the medication is actually getting to the eye.

11 Oct 2018

Scientists uncover how proteins meet on the cell membrane

Scripps Research scientists have uncovered the workings of a critical process in cell survival. Their study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show exactly how a protein called talin activates another critical protein, called integrin, to do its job on the cell membrane.

11 Oct 2018

Researchers design modeling system to infer relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed a modeling system that integrates genomic and temporal information to infer causal relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment, allowing for a more accurate prediction of their interactions over time.

11 Oct 2018

Lung cancer mortality rates are 28% lower in California

Early adoption of tobacco control efforts in California lead to fewer people ever smoking, reduced the amount used by those who do smoke and helped smokers quit at a younger age -- when their risk of developing lung cancer is lowest.

11 Oct 2018

New molecular switch may help develop sophisticated photomedications

Light-activated switches are too small to be seen by the naked eye, but the molecular systems are hard at work in research related to drug design, adaptive materials and data storage.

11 Oct 2018

Baseline PSA levels measured at midlife predict risk of aggressive prostate cancer in black men

Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with, and to die from, prostate cancer yet recommendations about prostate cancer screening are primarily based on studies of white men.

11 Oct 2018

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, together with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Boston Children's Hospital, has been awarded $11.3 million to map the three-dimensional structures of protein tangles that accumulate in the human brain.

11 Oct 2018

Otago scientists make a breakthrough in monkey malaria research

A breakthrough in monkey malaria research by University of Otago scientists encouraged the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund a special meeting in Dunedin recently.

11 Oct 2018

Research News and Research

Dartmouth researchers receive grant to study acute kidney injury

NVIDIA and King’s College London partner to build AI infrastructure for improving patient care

New publication offers evidence-based content for global breast imaging medical community

Researchers develop new techniques for faster detection of Lyme disease bacteria

Common gene variants linked to migraine risk in African-American children

Carnegie scientist awarded NIH grant to identify novel medicines for cardiovascular disease

Study shows that one amino acid may produce short-term lowering of glucose levels

Good bacterium in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus

Personalized goal setting to improve dementia care

Researchers unravel fresh clues as to how kidney stones form

Prenatal fluoride exposure linked to ADHD symptoms in children

Research: Greater use of e-cigarettes has potential to help people give up smoking

Color-changing contact lens could help doctors to monitor eye disease medications

Scientists uncover how proteins meet on the cell membrane

Researchers design modeling system to infer relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment

Lung cancer mortality rates are 28% lower in California

New molecular switch may help develop sophisticated photomedications

Baseline PSA levels measured at midlife predict risk of aggressive prostate cancer in black men

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Otago scientists make a breakthrough in monkey malaria research

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