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Medical Xpress / Lab demonstrates key molecular factor in exhaustion of immune cells—with treatment implications
A key enzyme and its molecular pathway are critical to keeping certain immune cells active and away from "exhaustion," according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Medical Xpress / How exercise helps prevent acute muscle pain from becoming chronic
A study conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil investigated the process of muscle pain chronification—that is, when it goes from acute to chronic—and identified one of the mechanisms by which ...
Medical Xpress / Lab-on-a-chip devices offer home tests for stress and cardiac issues
University of Cincinnati engineers have created a new device to help doctors diagnose depression and anxiety.
Medical Xpress / Researchers map 7,000-year-old genetic mutation that protects against HIV
Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose—and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.
Medical Xpress / Molecular mechanism that initiates colon cancer opens new path for prevention
Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed type of cancer worldwide. Up to 80% of the cases are related to environmental factors and lifestyle, such as poor diet, sedentarism, obesity, smoking or excessive alcohol consumption. ...
Medical Xpress / New study links obesity to long COVID symptoms
New research by Edith Cowan University (ECU) Center of Precision Health visiting Ph.D. scholar Ms. Debora Barbosa Ronca found that people with excess weight are more likely to experience long-term neurological and mental ...
Medical Xpress / Simple brain scan offers hope for detecting Parkinson's disease much earlier
An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic way—that it may be possible to diagnose Parkinson's disease (PD) years before it becomes untreatable, ...
Medical Xpress / Too fast to see: Eye movements predict speed limits in perception
If you quickly move a camera from object to object, the abrupt shift between the two points causes a motion smear that might give you nausea. Our eyes, however, do movements like these two or three times per second. These ...
Medical Xpress / Discovery of 500 tumor-specific cryptic peptides may guide future pancreatic cancer immunotherapies
Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed in pancreatic cancer cells could be a promising target for T-cell therapies and other approaches that attack pancreatic ...
Medical Xpress / BabyBot: Soft robotic infant mimics feeding behaviors from birth to 6 months old
A combined team of roboticists from CREATE Lab, EPFL and Nestlé Research Lausanne, both in Switzerland, has developed a soft robot that was designed to mimic human infant motor development and the way infants feed.
Medical Xpress / Genetic signature in T cells could improve personalization of immunotherapy treatments
Considered to be one of the greatest revolutions in cancer treatment, immunotherapy enhances the immune system's ability to target and destroy cancer cells efficiently. One of the key challenges in immunotherapy is the uncertainty ...
Medical Xpress / Protein linked to immunotherapy resistance in kidney cancer
A protein identified by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center may drive resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors, a widely used form of immunotherapy to treat cancer. The findings, published in Communications Medicine, ...