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The impact of epigenetic features on breast cancer treatment and outcomes

The impact of epigenetic features on breast cancer treatment and outcomes.

9 Aug 2023

Nanotechnology's triple threat: Advancing precision cancer treatment

The design of tumor tissue-, cell-, and organelle-targeted cancer nanomedicines.

9 Aug 2023

CT imaging reveals that COVID-19 vaccination may protect against severe lung pathology

Researchers determine how COVID-19 vaccination influences lung-sequelae-related pathology and the manifestation of severe infection.

9 Aug 2023

The effectiveness of antimicrobial mouthwashes in reducing viral load in saliva of COVID-19 patients

Researchers assess the effectiveness of three types of mouthwash in reducing the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva of infected individuals.

9 Aug 2023

The immune-modulatory effect of lenvatinib investigated in new study

Researchers explore the effect of lenvatinib treatment on patients with advanced thyroid cancer.

9 Aug 2023

High-level BPA exposure may affect male fertility

Scientists discuss the effect of bisphenol A on human male fertility.

9 Aug 2023

Lyme disease bacteria adapt to animal hosts at the variant level, study finds

A study looks at the mechanisms behind genetic variation in the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Lyme disease is the most common vector-transmitted disease in the United States, with around 476,000 human cases annually.

8 Aug 2023

Inflammation slows down the development of malaria parasites in bloodstream

Research led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) and the Kirby Institute found that inflammation in the body can slow down the development of malaria parasites in the bloodstream – a discovery that may constitute a potential new strategy for preventing or limiting severe disease.

8 Aug 2023

Dendritic cells found to kill CD47-deficient T cells

Researchers at Kobe University discovered an entirely new and unexpected mechanism by which the immune system can get rid of cells lacking molecules that identify them as part of the self in mice.

8 Aug 2023

Researchers discover possible new biomarker of MS-like autoimmune disease

It has been known for several years that the diagnosis "multiple sclerosis" conceals a whole range of different illnesses, each requiring customized treatment. Researchers at the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel have now described a possible new MS-like disease and explained how to diagnose it.

8 Aug 2023

MINDWATCH technology reveals how everyday pleasures can boost brain power

Listening to music and drinking coffee are the sorts of everyday pleasures that can impact a person's brain activity in ways that improve cognitive performance, including in tasks requiring concentration and memory.

8 Aug 2023

Nationwide Children's Hospital pioneers new gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

In a landmark moment for the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, a 5-year-old from Bellefontaine, Ohio, received the first dose of a recently approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where the therapy was invented and initially tested.

8 Aug 2023

Psychedelic drugs cause synchronized brain waves in rats, study finds

Researchers at Lund University have developed a technique for simultaneously measuring electrical signals from 128 areas of the brain in awake rats.

8 Aug 2023

RAGE plays key role in cellular mechanisms of plasticity in aggressive triple-negative breast cancer

Published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene , a study led by Josep Villanueva, an Investigator at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), shows that the receptor for advanced glycation end-product (RAGE) plays a key role in cellular mechanisms of plasticity in mesenchymal triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that transform epithelial cells into mesenchymal cells as potent drivers of cancer cell proliferation and tumor invasion.

8 Aug 2023

Memory and forgetting are key to social learning, study suggests

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be favored by natural selection? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have developed a simulation model of the evolution of social learning.

8 Aug 2023