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Medical Xpress / New AI tool identifies not just genetic mutations, but the diseases they may cause
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel artificial intelligence tool that not only identifies disease-causing genetic mutations but also predicts the type of disease those mutations ...
Medical Xpress / Neurons use physical signals, not electricity, to stabilize communication
Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to keep circuits functioning ...
Medical Xpress / Decoding long COVID: Investigators reveal why the body keeps fighting the war
A new study from investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) sheds light on why some people never fully recover from COVID-19.
Medical Xpress / AI-engineered nasal spray antiviral platform developed to block flu and COVID-19
Respiratory viruses that have diverse strains and mutate rapidly, such as influenza and COVID-19, are difficult to block perfectly with vaccines alone. To solve this problem, KAIST's research team has successfully developed ...
Medical Xpress / AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types
Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke—is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little is known about its neurophysiological ...
Medical Xpress / Smartwatch system helps parents shorten and defuse children's severe tantrums early
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a smartwatch-based alert system that signals parents at the earliest signs of a tantrum in children with emotional and behavioral disorders—prompting them to intervene before it intensifies.
Medical Xpress / Behavioral health spending spikes to 40% of all children's health expenditures, nearly doubling in a decade
Behavioral health care has surged to represent 40% of all medical expenditures for U.S. children in 2022, nearly doubling from 22% in 2011, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers found that pediatric ...
Medical Xpress / How the immune system keeps mucosal fungi in check
The microbiome not only consists of bacteria, but also of fungi. Most of them support human and animal health. However, some fungi also have pathogenic potential. For instance, the yeast Candida albicans can grow in an uncontrolled ...
Medical Xpress / Common medicines may influence CRISPR therapy outcomes and precision cancer treatment
In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the impact of more than 2,000 clinically approved drugs on DNA repair and CRISPR genome editing outcomes. They found ...
Medical Xpress / 'Zombie' cells spark inflammation in severe fatty liver disease, researchers find
Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered how aging "zombie cells" trigger harmful inflammation that accelerates a severe and increasingly common form of fatty liver disease called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer disrupts brain's day-night rhythm, altering stress hormone cycles in mice
"The brain is an exquisite sensor of what's going on in your body," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. "But it requires balance. Neurons need to be active or inactive at the right times. ...
Medical Xpress / RNA 'quality control' system breaks down in ALS, study finds
A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on a critical molecular mechanism underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to findings published in the journal Neuron.
