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Medical Xpress / Mice with miniature goggles reveal how different visual experiences give rise to different neural wiring
Visual experience triggers the formation of a web of neural connections in different brain areas in order to make sense of the world—and in particular, of feedback connections, which send information from higher-level visual ...
Medical Xpress / Established cancer drug can reactivate immunotherapy
Genetically modified immune cells can offer precious additional time to patients with advanced multiple myeloma. However, these therapies lose their impact as the molecules on cancer cells that immune cells recognize gradually ...
Medical Xpress / Fragile X study uncovers brainwave biomarker bridging humans and mice
Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a noninvasive, objective readout of treatment ...
Medical Xpress / Key gene behind drug resistance in small cell lung cancer identified
A research team has discovered a crucial mechanism that underlies chemotherapy resistance and metastasis in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Their study shows that the silencing of the RASA4 gene through epigenetic mechanisms ...
Medical Xpress / Nurses can deliver hospital care just as well as doctors, review finds
Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new review, appearing in the Cochrane ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers solve mystery behind rare clotting after adenoviral vaccines or natural adenovirus infection
A global research collaboration of scientists from McMaster University (Canada), Flinders University (Australia) and Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (Germany) uncovered why a small number of people developed dangerous blood ...
Medical Xpress / New biosensor technology could improve glucose monitoring
A wearable biosensor developed by Washington State University researchers could improve wireless glucose monitoring for people with diabetes, making it more cost-effective, accurate, and less invasive than current models. ...
Medical Xpress / Pregnancy-related complications are not the most common causes of maternal death among pregnant women, new mothers
Researchers at Columbia University have found that accidental drug overdose, homicide, and suicide are the leading causes of death among pregnant and postpartum women. The researchers used information on death certificates ...
Medical Xpress / Experimental drug may protect the brain against depression and cognitive impairment caused by whole brain radiotherapy
Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through radiation treatment later develop memory problems, thinking ...
Medical Xpress / Breathing tube insertion before hospital admission for major trauma saves lives, modeling study suggests
Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modeling study led by researchers at University ...
Medical Xpress / Atherosclerosis may start in childhood: New data tie obesity to early vascular damage
A study of 130 children between the ages of 6 and 11 conducted by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil has identified that obesity alone can cause immediate damage to children's cardiovascular ...
Medical Xpress / Rewards vs. goals: How a brain signal used to study depression tells us about our immediate desires
James Cavanagh has been at the University of New Mexico for 13 years studying cognitive neuroscience and using imaging tools to understand psychiatric and neurological disorders. His most recent publication in Trends in Cognitive ...
