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Congressman off-base in ad claiming Fauci shipped covid to Montana before the pandemic

A fundraising ad for U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) shows a photo of Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, behind bars, swarmed by flying bats.

5 Feb 2024

Machine learning-based models can predict diabetes incidence across several ethnicities

Predicting diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) incidence and prevalence across differing ethnicities.

27 Sep 2023

Common cold coronaviruses may offer pre-existing immunity to COVID-19

Exposure to common cold-causing coronaviruses may contribute to pre-existing immunity to COVID-19, according to a new study involving a Rutgers research scientist.

18 Aug 2023

CEPI and HMRI partner to accelerate development of pandemic vaccines

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI), have today announced a partnership to combine cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology with established laboratory techniques to speed up development of future vaccines against novel viral threats (also known as Disease X).

18 Jul 2023

Ancient, virus-like protein may contribute to ALS

More than 5,000 people are diagnosed annually with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a fatal, neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, gradually robbing people of the ability to speak, move, eat and breathe.

7 Jun 2023

Regulatory T cells lacking SRC-3 gene mediate long-lasting tumor eradication

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a crucial regulator of the anti-cancer immune response that could change the game in the fight against cancer.

29 May 2023

Effectiveness of exome and genome sequencing to detect undiagnosed syndromes

Scientists review existing literature to evaluate the advancements in genomic and exome sequencing for the accurate detection of undiagnosed syndromes.

1 Feb 2023

How human cell atlases provide the missing links between genes, diseases and therapies

A Nature Medicine journal perspective article describes the potential of cell atlases in shaping the future of medicine. Providing the missing link between genes and diseases, single-cell atlases make it possible to develop more precise and specific diagnostic tools by understanding the mechanisms of complex diseases.

12 Dec 2022

CSU engineers introduce a better way to perform mosquito-tracking for disease applications

West Nile, Zika, dengue and malaria are all diseases spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. To track the threat of such diseases over large populations, scientists need to know where the mosquitoes are, where they've been, and where they might go.

30 Nov 2022

Obscure family of viruses already endemic in African monkeys "poised for spillover" to humans

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is "poised for spillover" to humans, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research published online Sept. 30 in the journal Cell.

30 Sep 2022

Designing an app to diagnose ALS

In this interview, we speak to Dr. Jordan Green about his latest research partnership with Modality.AI that investigated whether an app could be used to effectively diagnose speech decline due to ALS.

4 Aug 2022

Details of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys supported by the US CDC

Researchers reviewed and analyzed data from SARS-CoV-2 serosurveys supported by the United States Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in the low- and middle-income countries.

6 Jun 2022

A new strategy for identifying potent miniature antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a novel strategy for identifying potent miniature antibodies, so-called nanobodies, against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

25 Mar 2022

Study offers insight into molecular biology of the brain in bipolar disorder patients

In a comprehensive study involving one of the largest-ever samples of post-mortem brains, scientists at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, in collaboration with researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, have pinpointed significant differences in gene expression in two specific regions of the brains of hundreds of patients who had bipolar disorder.

7 Mar 2022

Aggressive brain tumor in children can be identified by analyzing cerebrospinal fluid

It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying their cerebrospinal fluid, according to new research led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators.

2 Mar 2022

Antidepressant Prozac could offer the first treatment for atrophic macular degeneration

An antidepressant best known as Prozac could offer the first treatment for the leading cause of blindness among people over 50, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.

21 Oct 2021

Fruit fly provides insight into controlling carbs and fat

Incretins are hormones secreted by intestinal cells that regulate pancreatic insulin and glucagon to control sugar metabolism in mammals.

19 Aug 2021

New study examines B cell receptor repertoires in COVID-19 patients

In a paper recently uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv* by Kim et al. (August 2, 2021), the B cell receptor repertoire of 1,060 COVID-19 patients is compared to that of an equal number of healthy volunteers in a novel manner, utilizing computational deep-learning-based protein embedding techniques, which demonstrate a resolution capable of tracking the changes in immunity in an individual over the course of infection.

5 Aug 2021

UMSOM researchers develop two accurate, rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed two rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that are nearly as accurate as the gold-standard test currently used in laboratories.

15 Jun 2021

Researchers develop integrative approach to better understand the origins of Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and affects more than 10 million people around the world.

19 May 2021