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Medical Xpress / Ancestral diet-inspired pregnancy trial boosts growth in key fetal brain region
A nutrition program for pregnant women inspired by ancestral dietary patterns and adapted to locally available foods in Ecuador increased growth in a key fetal brain region, according to a study led by researchers at Washington ...
Medical Xpress / CAAR T-cell therapy offers a more targeted route for neurological autoimmune diseases
Researchers at DZNE and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin are working on a targeted therapy for neurological autoimmune diseases. So far, they have successfully tested their approach in mouse studies involving two such conditions. ...
Medical Xpress / AI estimates retinal age, revealing sex-specific aging patterns and links to disease risk
A team from the Department of Computational Biology at the University of Lausanne has developed an artificial intelligence model capable of estimating a person's retinal age from a simple photograph of the back of the eye. ...
Medical Xpress / Patient-specific AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
Researchers have created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient's preoperative 3D medical scan. This method could make it easier for clinicians to precisely guide ...
Medical Xpress / Hiring more specialists alone won't fix long wait times—and may make them worse
A new analysis published in NEJM Catalyst finds that the standard response to growing specialist wait times—hiring more physicians—is unlikely to solve the problem on its own and may even worsen it. The article, "Reducing ...
Medical Xpress / Can psychedelic clinical trials be better? Researchers say yes
UC San Francisco researchers are weighing in on one of the biggest challenges in psychedelic science, arguing that clinical trials need more convincing placebo treatments to better measure the drugs' true effects.
Medical Xpress / Early changes in the tumor environment may explain why immunotherapy works for some patients but not others
Two patients receive the same immunotherapy for the same cancer. In one, the tumor retreats and stays gone for years. In the other, the treatment does nothing. Oncologists still have no reliable way to tell these patients ...
Medical Xpress / Binge eating may map onto widespread brain differences in bulimia nervosa
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that individuals with bulimia nervosa have structural differences in brain regions involved in reward and motivation, as well as social and sensory processing, ...
Medical Xpress / Engineered mice give human brain organoids space to form working circuits
Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside the human brain—and outside laboratory glassware.
Medical Xpress / Software rapidly tracks viral variants with high accuracy to aid outbreak responses
It was mid-2020, and Patrick Varilly, a software engineer and data scientist, was stuck at home, eager to help the world navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He reconnected with Pardis Sabeti, a core institute member of ...
Medical Xpress / Study supports effectiveness of RSV preventive antibodies for infants, offers new way to monitor viral resistance
An analysis of more than 60,000 respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sequences from around the world found that viral variants associated with resistance to current RSV prevention tools remain rare, according to a study published ...
Medical Xpress / New dementia warning sign is hiding in our muscles
Losing muscle as we age could be an important warning sign for dementia, according to new Curtin University research. Researchers analyzed more than 80 studies examining the links between body weight, body fat, muscle health ...
