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Medical Xpress / Intermittent fasting positively affects female hormones in PCOS, study finds
Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, affects as many as 18% of all childbearing-age women. The condition occurs when a woman's body produces too much of a group of hormones called androgens, chiefly testosterone. Menstrual ...
Medical Xpress / Rare MGRN1 gene variant tied to fetal heart malformations
The Human Genetics Research Group of the University of Tartu Faculty of Medicine has identified a gene whose defect may cause congenital heart malformations in the fetus. The MGRN1 gene has not previously been associated ...
Medical Xpress / Study reveals sharp vision comes from single cone cells in the fovea
The human eye can see with exceptional detail, allowing people to read fine print, recognize faces across the room, and take in the features in nature. Scientists have long debated how this sharp vision works at the cellular ...
Medical Xpress / How the human brain builds our sense of time
How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how the brain constructs ...
Medical Xpress / Research moves closer to 'smart' sensors in knee replacements
If you have a knee replacement, imagine pointing your phone at your knee and pulling up an app that tells you how much stress the artificial joint is experiencing. Knowing the activities that cause the biggest problems—which ...
Medical Xpress / Immune-capable cervix-on-a-chip enables study of sexually transmitted infections
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) not only impact an individual's health, but also result in multibillion-dollar economic losses worldwide. To study these diseases, a team of researchers has developed the first-of-its-kind, ...
Medical Xpress / Cellular pathways that drive precancerous lesions to form pancreatic tumors identified
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the most common type of pancreatic cancer and has a low five-year survival rate. It begins with a reversible state called acinar-to-ductal metaplasia, where cells can heal after injury ...
Medical Xpress / An injectable particle could make surgery safer for infants
Biomedical researchers have designed an injectable microgel to help reduce bleeding in infants who require surgical care. In an animal model, the engineered microgel reduced bleeding by at least 50%. The paper, "Hemostatic ...
Medical Xpress / How an Alzheimer's risk gene disrupts brain circuits long before memory loss
For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their brain activity may begin changing long before any memory problems appear. Now, researchers at Gladstone ...
Medical Xpress / Overnight machine perfusion lets liver transplants safely shift to daytime, study shows
It is safe for patients to receive a donor liver that has been intentionally preserved overnight using machine perfusion to enable a daytime transplant. This is shown by a study performed at the University Medical Center ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists map how the body traps 'sleeping' tuberculosis
Scientists at James Cook University have uncovered new insights into how the body contains latent tuberculosis, using a cutting-edge technique that allows researchers to map exactly where immune cells and bacteria interact ...
Medical Xpress / A shift away from traditional antifungal research: Study points toward immune reprogramming to treat candidiasis
Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in a paper in the April edition of Cell Host & Microbe suggests that immune metabolic reprogramming ...
