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Medical Xpress / Research into Friedreich's ataxia reveals how DNA folding can silence a key gene
Researchers have uncovered a fundamental rule that governs how genes are physically arranged inside the cell nucleus, and how disruptions to that organization can contribute to human disease.
Medical Xpress / How screen use, not just screen time, relates to self-regulation and learning in neurodiverse children
A new Western University study that set out to assess screen time and the relationship to self-regulation in a real-world sample of children revealed those 4 to 16 years old are far exceeding recommended daily guidelines.
Medical Xpress / AI chatbot shows promise in combating health misinformation
Can AI help people resist misinformation? Initial research findings suggest that artificial intelligence-driven conversations can strengthen people's resilience to health misinformation, outperforming traditional educational ...
Medical Xpress / Ivermectin prescriptions more than double after celebrity endorses it as a cancer treatment on a high-profile podcast
Prescriptions for the anti-parasite medication ivermectin doubled in the months following an endorsement by a celebrity during a high-profile podcast as an off-label cancer treatment, a UCLA-led study finds.
Medical Xpress / A two-way street: The overlapping world of premenstrual disorders and mental health conditions
Premenstrual disorders and psychiatric conditions often seem to flock together, and researchers now have data to make a case for it. A large Swedish study involving over 3 million women revealed a striking two-way path between ...
Medical Xpress / The magic of mushrooms: Psychedelic psilocybin shows promise for treating cocaine addiction
Cocaine addiction treatment has found a surprising new contender in the highly regulated substance psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in mushroom species popularly known as magic mushrooms or shrooms. ...
Medical Xpress / Brain histamine map connects genes to brain function and mental health
New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, a molecule more commonly associated with allergies, plays a separate but poorly understood role ...
Medical Xpress / Personalized vaccine shows promise against aggressive brain cancer
A personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer that affects four in 100,000 people in the U.S., is safe and elicits robust and broad immune responses that appear to increase recurrence-free ...
Medical Xpress / Antibody spurs nerve fiber regrowth following spinal cord injury
An international research group has demonstrated that the antibody NG101 promotes the regeneration of damaged spinal cord tissue. Now, under the leadership of scientists at the University of Zurich and Balgrist University ...
Medical Xpress / Gene-edited stem cell transplant shows promise for aggressive blood cancers
For highly aggressive types of blood cancer, stem cell transplantation is often the only potentially curative therapy, yet even after a transplant, these cancers often return. Now a clinical trial, led by researchers at Washington ...
Medical Xpress / Intestinal stem cells can fight back against Salmonella
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a previously unrecognized defense mechanism in the intestine, showing that intestinal stem cells can actively respond ...
Medical Xpress / HIV reveals more than 100 escape mutations against promising antibody therapies
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are among the most promising new treatments for HIV, offering the potential to forego traditional daily doses of antiretroviral drugs. In one recent clinical study of bNAbs identified ...