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Innovative method greatly simplifies the complexity of delivering vaccines

Future vaccine delivery may rely on everyday items like BBQ lighters and microneedles, thanks to the ingenuity of a team of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers.

21 Oct 2021

Study highlights major role of polysubstance use in drug overdose risk

Even as the opioid epidemic dominated national attention over the past decade, the rate of overdose deaths involving cocaine, methamphetamine and other stimulants tripled, a new study in veterans suggests.

21 Oct 2021

People's eyes widen in response to interest and engagement, finds study

As busy people, we juggle many tasks, keep many balls in the air, and try to avoid letting anything drop. In class, instructors toss out ideas; sometimes they go over our heads, but other times we grasp them quickly.

21 Oct 2021

New system aims to maximize protection, minimize costs while planning epidemic interventions

A team of researchers has created a software system designed to model epidemics, with the aim of maximizing public-health protections while minimizing economic and social costs.

21 Oct 2021

Researchers employ novel algorithm to identify candidate cancer drugs for pulmonary hypertension

By combining computational and experimental approaches, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Prairie View A&M University researchers identified cancer drugs that show promise for treating pulmonary hypertension, or PH, a rare and incurable lung disease.

21 Oct 2021

Skeletal muscle in individuals with type 2 diabetes has a different circadian rhythm, research shows

Almost all cells regulate their biological processes over a 24-hour period, otherwise called a cell's circadian rhythm. To do so, cells use a biological clock that cycles different genes on and off throughout the day and night. Scientists already know that our metabolic health can suffer when our biological clock breaks down, due to shift work or sleep disorders, for example. However, it's unclear how exactly the biological clock of people with type 2 diabetes differs from healthy people.

21 Oct 2021

Drug company pipelines are filling up with new molecules to help people lose weight

Drugs that promise to help people lose weight have had a checkered past, such as the infamous fen-phen that was pulled from the market in 1997 after reports of heart valve damage. But now, drug company pipelines are filling up with new molecules that aim to help people safely shed extra pounds, according to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering News, an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society.

21 Oct 2021

Researchers challenge long-held assumption about ML trade-offs in public policy decisions

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are challenging a long-held assumption that there is a trade-off between accuracy and fairness when using machine learning to make public policy decisions.

21 Oct 2021

Interferon treatment coupled with bone marrow transplant reduces risk of leukemia recurrence

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a drug that, when given along with a bone marrow transplant, drops the risk of leukemia recurring by 20% among the high-risk patients.

21 Oct 2021

First-in-human study of DBS for post-stroke rehabilitation shows encouraging results

Targeting the dentate nucleus with deep brain stimulation (DBS) was safe and feasible for promoting post-stroke rehabilitation in a first-in-human study at Cleveland Clinic.

21 Oct 2021

Playing elite rugby may affect cognitive function in older age, study shows

Retired male elite rugby union players aged 50+ who suffered three or more rugby-related concussions during their career have no worse average cognitive function than those who had experienced no, one or two concussions, according to a new study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.

21 Oct 2021

Study paves the way for development of new therapeutic strategies to treat addiction

Drug addiction is a psychiatric disorder for which no pharmacological treatment with long-term efficacy currently exists. All addictive substances share the property of raising concentrations of the neurotransmitter dopamine within brain regions forming the neural reward circuit.

21 Oct 2021

Oxford vaccine trial participants believe the COVID-19 vaccine must be a shared global good

National pride in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine does not outweigh desire for global greater good, suggests study with trial participants.

21 Oct 2021

U-M researchers target a protein channel in the cell’s lysosome to selectively kill cancer cells

Cancer treatments necessarily target unchecked cell growth, and selectively kill cancer cells while sparing normal cells and avoiding general toxicity in the human body.

20 Oct 2021

MRI study suggests link between SARS-CoV-2 and brain lesions in COVID-19 patients with pneumonia

New research suggests pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is linked to viral-induced changes in the brain. MRI scans revealed 57.9% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected patients had recent brain lesions.

20 Oct 2021

New discovery can pave the way to better diagnostics and therapeutics for asthma and COPD

Rutgers researchers have discovered that people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a protein in their lungs that leaks a small molecule into their bloodstream that restricts their breathing instead of relaxing their airways.

20 Oct 2021

Study explores cross-cultural differences in knowledge, attitude towards COVID-19

A study exploring cross-cultural differences in knowledge and attitudes towards COVID-19 reveals that people in Europe had the least knowledge of COVID-19 and lowest tendency to care about the coronavirus, while people in the United States had the lowest tendency to comply with public health restrictions.

20 Oct 2021

Broadly protective vaccines against coronaviruses needed to protect against future outbreaks

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the β-coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), alerted the world to the seriousness of the threat posed by novel viruses.

20 Oct 2021

Personalized clotting profiles could benefit people at risk from strokes and heart attacks

People at risk from strokes and heart attacks could benefit from personalized clotting profiles to help clinicians prescribe more precise treatments, thanks to new research.

20 Oct 2021

Discovery could lead to new treatments for axial spondyloarthritis

In a paper published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the Schroeder Arthritis Institute, part of University Health Network in Toronto, have made a discovery that could lead to new treatments for axial spondyloarthritis (SpA), a painful and debilitating form of arthritis which affects 1-2% of Canadians and causes inflammation in the spine, joints, eyes, gut and skin.

20 Oct 2021

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Innovative method greatly simplifies the complexity of delivering vaccines

Study highlights major role of polysubstance use in drug overdose risk

People's eyes widen in response to interest and engagement, finds study

New system aims to maximize protection, minimize costs while planning epidemic interventions

Researchers employ novel algorithm to identify candidate cancer drugs for pulmonary hypertension

Skeletal muscle in individuals with type 2 diabetes has a different circadian rhythm, research shows

Drug company pipelines are filling up with new molecules to help people lose weight

Researchers challenge long-held assumption about ML trade-offs in public policy decisions

Interferon treatment coupled with bone marrow transplant reduces risk of leukemia recurrence

First-in-human study of DBS for post-stroke rehabilitation shows encouraging results

Playing elite rugby may affect cognitive function in older age, study shows

Study paves the way for development of new therapeutic strategies to treat addiction

Oxford vaccine trial participants believe the COVID-19 vaccine must be a shared global good

U-M researchers target a protein channel in the cell’s lysosome to selectively kill cancer cells

MRI study suggests link between SARS-CoV-2 and brain lesions in COVID-19 patients with pneumonia

New discovery can pave the way to better diagnostics and therapeutics for asthma and COPD

Study explores cross-cultural differences in knowledge, attitude towards COVID-19

Broadly protective vaccines against coronaviruses needed to protect against future outbreaks

Personalized clotting profiles could benefit people at risk from strokes and heart attacks

Discovery could lead to new treatments for axial spondyloarthritis

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