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Medical Xpress / Innovative red blood cell shape test promises better blood storage and transfusions
Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The ...
Medical Xpress / Loosening chimeric antigen receptor's grip on T-regulatory cells improves function, researchers find
A new paper from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers is helping to reveal the "rules" for engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tregs.
Medical Xpress / Discovery of cilia defects in ALS patients suggests new treatment path
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons. The average life span after diagnosis of this incurable disease is two to five years.
Medical Xpress / Studies address what constitutes patience, and impatience, and the factors that determine them
Patience—like its corollary impatience—has always been a sort of "I know it when I see it" concept. And that didn't sit well with UC Riverside psychology researcher Kate Sweeny.
Medical Xpress / Potential culprit identified in lingering Crohn's disease symptoms
A study by University of Michigan researchers may provide an explanation for why some patients with Crohn's disease continue to experience symptoms, even in the absence of inflammation.
Medical Xpress / Machine learning uncovers three osteosarcoma subtypes for targeted treatment
Researchers have been able to identify at least three distinct subtypes of a rare type of bone cancer for the first time, which could transform clinical trials and patient care.
Medical Xpress / Study reveals brain's role in starting meals through GABA, dopamine
When you are feeling hungry, the brain takes the necessary steps toward consuming a meal. Many of these steps are not well known, but a new study published in the journal Metabolism by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine ...
Medical Xpress / 3D bioprinted scaffolds enhance bone healing through improved vascularization
Bone is a highly vascularized tissue, and the link between angiogenesis -blood vessel formation- and bone healing has long been discussed by the scientific community, with several studies describing the impairment of bone ...
Medical Xpress / Using an AI tool, researchers find poor vascular health accelerates brain aging
Using an AI tool, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have analyzed brain images from 70-year-olds and estimated their brains' biological age. They found that factors detrimental to vascular health, such as inflammation ...
Medical Xpress / Molecular and cellular level research shows a sharp sex divide for long COVID—women are more vulnerable
Scientists have identified "immune pathways" during acute coronavirus infection that are associated with the development of long COVID, and while some pathways are the same for men and women, others differ dramatically along ...
Medical Xpress / Pregnancies affected by major congenital heart defects show nearly triple risk of adverse outcomes
Research led by the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen has revealed that nearly 23% of pregnancies affected by fetal major congenital heart defects also result in adverse obstetric outcomes.
Medical Xpress / How a newly examined gut microbe drives the gut-lung axis
A team led by University of Toronto researchers has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung.