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Medical Xpress / Multiple sclerosis: Cell-catching implant helps identify successful treatment in mice
A sponge-like implant in mice has helped guide a treatment that slowed or stopped a degenerative condition similar to multiple sclerosis in humans. It has also given University of Michigan researchers a first look at how ...
Medical Xpress / Sudden vision loss in children: Study in China points to a novel retinal disorder
A multicenter study led by researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology in China has characterized a distinct retinal disorder in children following high fever illness. The study describes hyperacute outer retinal ...
Medical Xpress / The true toll of a transient ischemic attack may be found in accelerated cognitive decline
A University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine-led study suggests that first-time transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are associated with long-term cognitive decline.
Medical Xpress / Neurons linked to empathy: Study reveals brain cells that help us understand others
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan Cao, Ph.D., an instructor ...
Medical Xpress / Rare genetic syndrome affects male and female brains in distinct ways
Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain cells of mice—distinguishing ...
Medical Xpress / Machine learning sheds light on how the human brain perceives feeling
How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, co-authored by Edward A. Vessel, the Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor of Computational ...
Medical Xpress / Neural network model can improve understanding of human attention
Imagine watching a speaker and another person nearby is loudly crunching from a bag of chips. To deal with this, a person could adjust their attention to downplay those crunch noises or focus their hearing on the speaker. ...
Medical Xpress / Novel antibiotic BTZ-043 can also target TB bacteria hiding in dead lung tissue
Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment of TB usually requires ...
Medical Xpress / Abortion bans in the US linked to increased births and infant mortality, studies find
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers analyzed the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., identifying increases in both birth rates and infant mortality in states that implemented complete or six-week ...
Medical Xpress / Cholesterol metabolism byproduct linked to Parkinson's disease
Researchers led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China have discovered a cholesterol metabolite that plays a critical role in the development of Parkinson's disease in mice. Published in the journal PLOS Biology, the ...
Medical Xpress / Genes, income and health: Unraveling the complex connections
Past research studies have consistently found that there are disparities in the health outcomes of people from different socio-economic backgrounds. More recently, some findings hinted at the possibility that genetics also ...
Medical Xpress / Mending a broken heart: Two types of scars in injured cardiac tissue, two paths to healing
Not all scars are created equal. That's the conclusion of a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers: They found that two distinct types of scars, referred to as "hot" and "cold," can form in the diseased heart, ...