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Medical Xpress / Lab-grown brain-spinal cord model shows 'irreversible' nerve damage may be reversed
Cambridge scientists have grown miniature circuits in the lab that mimic how the brain and spinal cord connect, which underlies human movement. They used this model to show how damage to these connections previously considered ...
Medical Xpress / Lab-grown heart patch boosts pumping power in severe heart failure trial
Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of severe heart failure: For the first time, a clinical ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists validate a link between autoimmunity and long COVID
A Mount Sinai-led research team has demonstrated that autoimmunity, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, is responsible for the often-debilitating and confounding symptoms of long COVID in a subset of ...
Medical Xpress / Blood biomarkers reveal subtle midlife cognitive decline tied to Alzheimer's risk
For the first time, researchers found blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease that correlated with minor cognitive differences in midlife adults who did not have dementia. The study, led by UC San Francisco, also found that ...
Medical Xpress / AI suggests simple food swaps to make meals healthier and cheaper
An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published in PLOS Digital Health by Trevor Chan ...
Medical Xpress / Young adults are more perfectionistic than ever before, study finds
College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago, finds research published in Psychological Bulletin. That increase in perfectionism may be tied to social and economic factors such as rising ...
Medical Xpress / Depression may not only be a consequence, but also a cause of rheumatoid arthritis
According to researchers at Semmelweis University, not only inflammation, but also sleep disorders, depression, obesity, and smoking may sustain persistent rheumatic symptoms. In their publications in the journals Nature ...
Medical Xpress / Brain maps reveal first lifetime white matter growth charts from birth to 100
In a new study published recently in the journal Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health have created the first growth charts for white matter in the brain over a human lifetime. The work brings ...
Medical Xpress / Psychiatric 'gold standard' falters as repeat interviews yield different diagnoses
Diagnostic interviews are widely used by mental health professionals to identify conditions such as anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression in adults, but new research led by McMaster University shows that the long considered ...
Medical Xpress / Cannabis use does not lower testosterone, study concludes
The effects of cannabis on the hormonal system and male fertility remain controversial within the scientific community. A study conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the Swiss Center for Applied ...
Medical Xpress / Gut microbe found to worsen sepsis by triggering hyperinflammatory immune responses
Why do some people recover easily from bacterial infections while others rapidly deteriorate into life-threatening sepsis? According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the answer may lie not only in the invading ...
Medical Xpress / New brain scan detects Alzheimer's tau earlier than current standard
A new brain imaging test can detect a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear and earlier than the method currently used in clinical practice in the United States and Europe, report University of Pittsburgh ...
