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Medical Xpress / Mutation map reveals how amylin mutations influence type 2 diabetes
Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have produced a mutational map showing how mutations in amylin—a hormone that plays a key role in glucose regulation—affect its tendency to form toxic amyloid ...
Medical Xpress / Brain wiring model could shorten path to new medicines
A new, more life-like physical model of microscopic nerve fibers called axons could speed up the discovery of medicines for multiple sclerosis and other degenerative brain diseases, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. ...
Medical Xpress / A long-term and scalable system to record from neural organoids
Neural organoids have been heralded as having huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the brain in several fields. These include exploring the responses of brain tissue to drugs, investigating the effect of specific ...
Medical Xpress / Bile acid and steroid signatures tied to extreme longevity
Centenarians often live to 100+ due to a combination of protective genetic factors, which account for up to 50%, and healthy lifestyles, such as plant-forward diets, regular, natural movement and strong social connections. ...
Medical Xpress / DASH diet grocery program delivers blood pressure and cholesterol benefits
Black adults with high blood pressure who received dietitian counseling and home deliveries of groceries aligned with the DASH diet—meaning high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, legumes and ...
Medical Xpress / Targeting protein BCL-2 may create a promising pathway to reversing pulmonary fibrosis
Researchers at National Jewish Health and collaborating institutions have uncovered a critical mechanism driving persistent pulmonary fibrosis and identified a promising strategy to reverse it. The recent study published ...
Medical Xpress / uPAR-targeted CAR T cells shrank solid tumors and cleared metastases in mice
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But the immunotherapy has struggled against solid tumors for two main reasons: Tumor ...
Medical Xpress / Common genetic cause of severe epilepsy revealed
A 6-year-old girl is one of more than 80 people worldwide who has finally received a diagnosis of a new condition following research by scientists and doctors in Manchester. Ava Begley's parents say they feel "deeply grateful" ...
Medical Xpress / Emotions in motion: How movement may signal mental health issues
Research from a team at the University of Texas at Dallas shows the potential for detecting mental health disorders by analyzing the way a person moves. Using 3D motion capture and machine-learning models, researchers were ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic code of growing bacterial threat identified using whole-genome sequencing
Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms than expected, including ones that may lead to life-threatening infections. The study, led by James ...
Medical Xpress / An avatar to study pediatric brain cancer may soon be a reality
Biopsy-derived organoids, accurate models of disease, are used to search for new drugs. Now, results obtained by a study led by the University of Trento in collaboration with Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome may pave ...
Medical Xpress / Stopping beta-blockers after heart attack is safe for low-risk patients, study finds
Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing beta-blockers in terms ...
