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Medical Xpress / Looking to study neurological conditions, researchers produce over 400 different types of nerve cells
Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest calculations. These cell ...
Medical Xpress / Advanced microscopy reveals that dopamine operates with surgical precision, not as a broad signal
A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has upended decades of neuroscience dogma, revealing that dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical for movement, motivation, learning and mood, communicates ...
Medical Xpress / Tissue-integrated bionic knee can restore natural movement
MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional prosthesis. The work appears ...
Medical Xpress / Reducing dietary serine may help hair follicle stem cells heal skin wounds faster
The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has shown, hair follicle ...
Medical Xpress / Modified personalized cancer vaccine generates powerful immune response
Results of a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-initiated phase 1 clinical trial for patients with melanoma show that an updated formula and delivery of the NeoVax personalized cancer vaccine called NeoVaxMI is safe, feasible, ...
Medical Xpress / New AI tool gives a helping hand to X-ray diagnosis
Can artificial intelligence (AI) potentially transform health care for the better?
Medical Xpress / Study finds fewer complications after additional ultrasound in pregnant women who feel less fetal movement
It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives fewer fetal movements. An additional ultrasound measurement to assess resistance in fetal blood vessels can help ...
Medical Xpress / Gene-editing platform could boost anti-cancer immune responses
Researchers have developed a new gene-editing platform that will enable safer and more effective T cell–based immunotherapies to treat cancer.
Medical Xpress / Microglia replacement halts progression of rare genetic brain disease in mice and humans
Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive neurological disease with an average age of onset at 43 years and an average life expectancy of only three to five years after ...
Medical Xpress / Female sex hormones linked to faster progression of eye disease
Female sex hormones can significantly enhance the progression of the rare neurodegenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP), according to a preclinical study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Medical Xpress / Transparent data-sharing is a powerful signal of study quality in pregnancy research
A global study led by researchers at the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, has found that clinical trials that share their raw data are significantly more likely to be trustworthy and well-conducted, ...
Medical Xpress / An FDA-approved drug halts Epstein-Barr virus-driven lymphoma by disrupting a key cancer pathway
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered that a class of FDA-approved cancer drugs known as PARP1 inhibitors can effectively combat Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-driven lymphomas. The findings, published in the Journal ...
