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Medical Xpress / The secret of human intelligence may lie in the power of a single brain cell
What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view was that the secret of human intelligence lay mainly in scale: the sheer number of neurons in the ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists uncover how fungi 'blind' the immune system—offering new hope against superbugs
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered that a fungus deadly to people with weakened immune systems can disable a critical defense used by neutrophils, the body's front-line, infection-fighting white blood ...
Medical Xpress / What your tears could reveal about your brain
A few tears may someday reveal important clues about a person's neurological health. Researchers reporting in ACS Omega developed a low-cost electrochemical sensor designed to detect dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved ...
Medical Xpress / Genome-edited stem cells dodge antibodies, raising hope for chemo-free transplants
Stem cell transplantation (also called bone marrow transplantation) and gene therapy are among the most powerful curative approaches for blood diseases such as sickle cell disease, b-thalassemia, immune deficiencies and some ...
Medical Xpress / Single-night sleep apnea tests may misclassify patients, repeated monitoring suggests
A single night of sleep testing may not be enough to diagnose sleep apnea, with new Flinders University research revealing that night-to-night variation can lead to missed or incorrect diagnoses. The study, published in npj ...
Medical Xpress / Lower diversity and poorer function of gut bacteria linked to frailty in older women
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified clear links between the composition of gut bacteria and frailty in older women. In cases of high frailty, with an increased risk of illness and death, gut bacterial ...
Medical Xpress / Womb fluid infusions help fetuses with kidney failure survive after birth
Women diagnosed early in pregnancy with a fetus lacking adequate kidney function to make the urine that serves as vital amniotic fluid have long faced virtually no chance of the fetus's survival after birth.
Medical Xpress / Alcohol drives opposite brain circuit changes in amyloid and tau Alzheimer's models
Alcohol use has been associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. But new research from Texas A&M University's Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health suggests the relationship between ...
Medical Xpress / Gut bacteria linked to malnutrition may pass to younger generations
A study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that an intestinal disorder linked to malnutrition and stunted growth may be transmitted from one generation to the next via the ...
Medical Xpress / Gut bacteria boost immune system, help send vitamin A to T cells
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's immune system by directing the movement of vitamin A through a previously unrecognized cellular network. ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds NFL players 4 times more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease
A new study from Mass General Brigham, Boston University and the Concussion & CTE Foundation found that National Football League (NFL) players had higher rates of neurodegenerative disease-caused mortality than the general ...
Medical Xpress / Mechanism linking chronic inflammation to reduced brain regeneration identified
A King's College London study, published in Nature Communications, offers insight into how long-term inflammation may contribute to cognitive decline in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, aging, depression and the lingering ...
