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Medical Xpress / Scientists discover how multiple sclerosis kills neurons
For decades, multiple sclerosis research has focused on myelin, the insulation around the brain's wiring. Scientists paid less attention to another loss that was happening in parallel: neurons in the cortex, the seat of higher ...
Medical Xpress / Pesticides and cancer: Study reveals the biological mechanisms behind an environmental health risk
A new study, published in Nature Health, reveals a strong link between exposure to agricultural pesticides in the environment and the risk of developing cancer. By combining environmental data, a nationwide cancer registry, ...
Medical Xpress / AI scribes linked to modest reductions in electronic health record use and clinical documentation time
Documenting a patient visit in the electronic health record (EHR) is essential to health care delivery, but also a major contributor to clinician burnout. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled ambient documentation, or "AI ...
Medical Xpress / Simple blood test could spot dementia years earlier, research shows
A blood test could help identify people at higher risk of cognitive decline years before a traditional diagnosis is possible—according to University of East Anglia research published in the journal Gut Microbes.
Medical Xpress / Twin study suggests genes explain most of the link between IQ and socioeconomic status
New twin research shows that innate IQ plays a major role in predicting your future socioeconomic status. The study, which follows twins during the crucial early adult years, reinforces the view that heredity and genes shape ...
Medical Xpress / Cysteine pathways help T cells choose between multiplying and attacking tumors
A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has discovered how the immune system's CD8+ T cells ...
Medical Xpress / Chemical compound clears misfolded tau, protects neurons in a model of frontotemporal dementia
New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells break down and eliminate their own cellular waste is a promising treatment strategy for a variety of ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists capture early stages of immune response inside cells
In new research, scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University and Brigham Young University, used the Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center to ...
Medical Xpress / Sleep cleans the brain: Researchers develop fast, non-invasive way to measure the process
Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased movement of brain fluids ...
Medical Xpress / AI model can detect multiple cognitive brain diseases from a single blood sample
The symptom profiles of different neurodegenerative diseases often overlap, and diagnosing age-related cognitive symptoms is complex. A patient may have multiple overlapping disease processes in the brain at the same time, ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic cause identified for one in four MND patients in largest ever rare variant analysis
Project MinE, an international consortium co-founded by researchers at King's College London, has identified new genetic variants that play a role in the development of motor neuron disease (MND). These findings mean that ...
Medical Xpress / Study maps hidden immune signals in type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes researchers have made great progress in understanding the disease in the last two decades, even as a cure remains elusive. Now they have something that benefits any scientific effort. It's a map.
