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Scientists discover how malaria switched host from African gorillas to humans

Researchers have revealed the series of events that probably led to the world’s deadliest form of malaria being able to jump from ancient great apes to humans.

16 Oct 2019

Syphilis rates in patients with kidney failure found to be greater than general population

Syphilis rates, like other sexually transmitted disease rates in the United States, are soaring, and the first known study to examine syphilis rates in patients with kidney failure found an incidence greater than three times that of the general population.

16 Oct 2019

High levels of chronic stress associated with hypertension in African Americans

African Americans reporting high levels of chronic stress tended to develop high blood pressure, or hypertension, more often than those who reported low stress levels, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the open access journal of the American Heart Association.

16 Oct 2019

Non-invasive tape strips can be used in children to assess atopic dermatitis on the molecular level

In a study using non-invasive tape strips in young children with eczema (or atopic dermatitis), researchers found many molecular signs of immune dysfunction and skin changes that relate to disease activity.

16 Oct 2019

NIH awards new contract to integrate pathogen and vector genomics database

A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of researchers around the world with access to the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database (EuPathDB.org), a collection of resources for analyzing large-scale datasets associated with microbial pathogens.

16 Oct 2019

Study: Natural loss of foot muscles in rodents shares similarities with skeletal muscle atrophy

New insight on how the natural loss of foot muscles occurred in rodents and other species during their evolution has been published today in the open-access journal eLife.

16 Oct 2019

Researcher explores biological processes that cause fertility problems in humans

With significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating fundamental biological processes that lead to fertility problems in humans.

16 Oct 2019

Study: Genetic differences in the immune system shape bacteria that colonize the digestive system

Genetic differences in the immune system shape the collections of bacteria that colonize the digestive system, according to new research by scientists at the University of Chicago.

16 Oct 2019

Researchers predict Tularemia outbreaks as climate changes

Stockholm University researchers have found that the impact of climate change of disease incidence of tularemia could be statistically predicted. In high-latitude regions, where the disease was less common, global warming could lead to increasing number of cases of the disease they wrote.

15 Oct 2019

Researchers aim to find how kinesiophobia may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain

Finding out how kinesiophobia -unreasonable fear of movement- may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain is the aim of a research group of the University of Malaga, which recent studies have been published in the scientific journal British Journal of Sports Medicine, the world's number 1 publication in the locomotor system field.

15 Oct 2019

Nonsurgical treatment options effective for sufferers of chronic rhinosinusitis

For sufferers of chronic rhinosinusitis, surgery is often the only treatment option due to the severity of their condition.

15 Oct 2019

Deaf infants of Deaf parents demonstrate strong gaze-following behavior

Eye gaze helps infants communicate. Through everyday interactions, eye gaze establishes a social connection between parent and child and is linked to early word learning.

15 Oct 2019

Machine learning system may offer warnings about negative side effects of drug-drug interactions

The more medications a patient takes, the greater the likelihood that interactions between those drugs could trigger negative side effects, including long-term organ damage and even death.

15 Oct 2019

ACT shows promise for treating fear of recurrence in cancer survivors

Acceptance and commitment therapy shows promise for treating fear of cancer recurrence in women who have survived breast cancer.

15 Oct 2019

Brain changes occurred independent of evolutionary rearrangements in the braincase

The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel brain structures that enabled complex behaviors such as language and tool production.

15 Oct 2019

Inactive receptor prevents cancer drugs from reactivating the immune system

The aim of immunotherapies is to enable the immune system once again to fight cancer on its own. Drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors are already in clinical use for this purpose.

15 Oct 2019

Amyloid-β protein misfolding proves to be strong risk prediction marker for Alzheimer's

In symptom-free individuals, the detection of misfolded amyloid-β protein in the blood indicated a considerably higher risk of Alzheimer's disease - up to 14 years before a clinical diagnosis was made.

15 Oct 2019

BU researcher receives NIH grant for clinical research in rheumatology

David Felson, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, was awarded a National Institute of Health P30 Center Grant.

15 Oct 2019

Drug-light combination could offer better control over CAR T-cell treatments

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego are a step closer to making CAR T-cell therapy safer, more precise and easy to control.

15 Oct 2019

Low-risk thyroid cancer and stringent follow-up: who decides?

In the case of low-risk treated thyroid cancer, some patients may be insisting on unduly intensive surveillance in the form of diagnostic scans to detect recurrence, without clear evidence for any benefit from the same, says a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

15 Oct 2019

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Scientists discover how malaria switched host from African gorillas to humans

Syphilis rates in patients with kidney failure found to be greater than general population

High levels of chronic stress associated with hypertension in African Americans

Non-invasive tape strips can be used in children to assess atopic dermatitis on the molecular level

NIH awards new contract to integrate pathogen and vector genomics database

Study: Natural loss of foot muscles in rodents shares similarities with skeletal muscle atrophy

Researcher explores biological processes that cause fertility problems in humans

Study: Genetic differences in the immune system shape bacteria that colonize the digestive system

Researchers predict Tularemia outbreaks as climate changes

Researchers aim to find how kinesiophobia may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain

Nonsurgical treatment options effective for sufferers of chronic rhinosinusitis

Deaf infants of Deaf parents demonstrate strong gaze-following behavior

Machine learning system may offer warnings about negative side effects of drug-drug interactions

ACT shows promise for treating fear of recurrence in cancer survivors

Brain changes occurred independent of evolutionary rearrangements in the braincase

Inactive receptor prevents cancer drugs from reactivating the immune system

Amyloid-β protein misfolding proves to be strong risk prediction marker for Alzheimer's

BU researcher receives NIH grant for clinical research in rheumatology

Drug-light combination could offer better control over CAR T-cell treatments

Low-risk thyroid cancer and stringent follow-up: who decides?

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

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