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Medical Xpress / Blood vessel building revealed: Cells push, anchor and pull to connect flowing channels

How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at the University of Basel has uncovered a key mechanism by which cells join to build new blood vessels.

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Medical Xpress / Soft, sticky, stretchable biosensors can pick up signals through hair, sweat, bending and stretching

Biosensors have revolutionized home health care over the past two decades. Devices like wearable heart rate and blood glucose monitors are giving people with chronic health conditions the information and assurance they need ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Genetic deletions may help explain differences in schizophrenia severity

Schizophrenia affects approximately 23 million people worldwide, with onset usually occurring during a person's late adolescence or 20s. Impairments associated with schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized ...

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Medical Xpress / Resistance training activates the muscle repair machinery, study finds

Researchers from the Universities of Hildesheim, Bonn and Freiburg have uncovered how human skeletal muscle responds to resistance exercise at the molecular level. Their findings provide new insights that could help optimize ...

6 hours ago
Medical Xpress / The lightbulb moment behind a potential antiviral breakthrough

An unexpected observation by a University of Queensland researcher could lead to a new treatment for deadly infectious diseases including COVID‑19, pneumonia in infants and children, or viral infections caused by Ebola and ...

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Medical Xpress / Portable air filters don't cut infection rates in care homes, study finds

Portable air filters made no difference to rates of respiratory and other infections in older people's long-term care facilities, a University of Bristol–led trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine has found. The study's ...

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Medical Xpress / Minutes-long process could create custom blood vessel grafts during surgery

Traumatic injuries, whether on a battlefield or in a car accident, often involve damaged blood vessels that require immediate repair. New research from Harvard bioengineers aims to make these critical, time-sensitive medical ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / A potential sleep crisis among workers over 50: Study links work-related stress to range of well-being issues

Sleep disturbances are far more common among workers in middle to later life than previously believed, according to a study that links work-related stress to a range of well-being issues. Researchers found that nearly 70% ...

6 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Dreams drain energy: The REM sleep paradox

The brain demands a lot of energy compared with other organs. However, it can also make do when energy supplies are scarce, flexibly processing information using what is available. How the brain resourcefully allocates this ...

13 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Novel hydrogel offers a smarter approach to wound healing

Any minor cut or scrape sets the body's natural healing process in motion. However, deep wounds are far more vulnerable to bacterial infection and the accumulation of harmful molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS), ...

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Medical Xpress / GLP-1 drugs may hold few benefits beyond physical health, study finds

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic have transformed the treatment of type 2 diabetes, helping millions of patients better control their blood sugar while reducing cardiovascular risk and, for many, promoting substantial weight ...

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Medical Xpress / First-of-its-kind study reveals how sleep strengthens memory and how epilepsy can disrupt the process

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered that memory consolidation during sleep depends on coordinated activity among three brain regions, and disruptions to this activity can impair ...

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