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Medical Xpress / Trends in youth mental health from 1990 to 2021 reveal a pandemic-era surge
Adolescence, the stage of development between childhood and adulthood, is characterized by many profound physical, mental, and emotional changes. During this critical stage, young people can experience various difficulties ...
Medical Xpress / Smartwatch and blood test data combine to better predict insulin resistance and diabetes
Around 20–40% of the general population are estimated to have insulin resistance—a condition where insulin begins to be less effective in the body, and glucose regulation becomes more difficult. Eventually, this can lead ...
Medical Xpress / Changes in pace of epigenetic clocks over time may help predict mortality risk
The age on your driver's license may not be the same age as the cells in your body. Scientists use something called an epigenetic clock, which looks at certain chemical tags in DNA to measure your biological age, or how fast ...
Medical Xpress / Mitochondria identified as key players in a rare disease causing microcephaly
Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate proportions and for cells to function correctly. When errors occur during cell division and the number ...
Medical Xpress / Brain tumors hijack sugar metabolism to evade immune attack, study shows
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that specialized immune cells within the glioblastoma tumor metabolize fructose to suppress immune responses and promote tumor growth, reports a study published in the Proceedings ...
Medical Xpress / Why some moments endure: Episodic memory encoding fluctuates with brain's theta rhythms
For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of important events. Past studies ...
Medical Xpress / Could an anti-aging therapy worsen myelin loss? Findings raise caution and MS clues
A two-drug combination frequently used in anti-aging research causes brain damage in mice, report University of Connecticut researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings, titled "Senolytic ...
Medical Xpress / Implantable 'charging station' boosts fight against cancer
Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body's own immune system to fight disease. But many engineered immune cells lose strength quickly after they enter the body, especially inside tumors that actively ...
Medical Xpress / Using AI to improve standard-of-care cardiac imaging
Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the most commonly used imaging ...
Medical Xpress / Hidden drug reservoirs in cancer cells could explain treatment resistance
One of oncology's biggest challenges is that the same treatment can work well for some patients but fail completely in others. A study published in Nature Communications, by a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Louise Fets ...
Medical Xpress / Taking pressure off the lungs to alleviate pulmonary arterial hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a rare and severe disease characterized by elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries, which transport blood from the heart to the lungs. This can eventually lead to right ...
Medical Xpress / Kidney regeneration's missing step: How zebrafish hook new filters into old pipes
MDI Bio Lab scientists discovered how zebrafish solve a basic challenge in regenerative biology—insights in their newest publication in the journal Development could one day guide human repair.
