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Medical Xpress / How a single viral protein hijacks immune cells to supercharge COVID-19 infection
In the sickest COVID-19 patients, SARS-CoV-2 doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells. The virus can also trigger hyperinflammation—a cycle in which immune cells themselves become infected, stop ...
Medical Xpress / AI reads doctors' notes at scale, revealing data absent from coded medical records
Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the clinician actually writes, ...
Medical Xpress / Ultrasound may offer a noninvasive way to manage deep muscle stiffness
Muscle strain injuries are a common problem in sports, and injuries to the triceps surae, the calf muscle group that includes the gastrocnemius and soleus, can significantly affect athletic performance and return to play. ...
Medical Xpress / When danger sounds, mice draw closer to familiar companions via a newly identified brain circuit
When mice heard a sound they thought signaled danger, they moved closer to a familiar companion, according to Virginia Tech researchers. They did not do the same when paired with a mouse they didn't know. The study, led by ...
Medical Xpress / Million-cell map of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy could pave the way for precision treatments
An international team led by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany has created a detailed map of the molecular activity underlying ...
Medical Xpress / Brain circuit linked to food cravings during pregnancy identified
Why do food cravings become so strong during pregnancy? Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues, have identified a brain mechanism that may help explain how pregnancy changes ...
Medical Xpress / Restored thyroid receptor makes aggressive tumors more vulnerable to CAR-T cell therapy
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a strategy that could help chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, overcome a major barrier to treating solid tumors: Cancer cells can change in ways that allow ...
Medical Xpress / Screening method identifies leukemia drug candidates from more than 4 million compounds
A cancer cell behaves differently from a healthy cell, with unique features that enable rapid growth and bypass quality controls. Rice University's Natasha Kirienko is interested in finding these unique features and exploiting ...
Medical Xpress / B cells may help predict risk of colitis from immunotherapy
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown role for B cells, adaptive immune cells, in triggering and sustaining colitis as a side effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors, ...
Medical Xpress / A single protein may help aggressive breast cancer spread to the brain and evade immune defenses
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified a protein that may help an aggressive form of breast cancer spread to the brain and escape the body's immune defenses.
Medical Xpress / Large study finds no added risk of rare artery tear following chiropractic neck care
Getting your neck adjusted by a chiropractor does not appear to raise the risk of a rare but serious artery injury, according to a large observational study from a multidisciplinary collaboration including researchers at ...
Medical Xpress / Seven ways coffee affects your body beyond caffeine, from gut microbes to iron
Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert. But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.
