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Medical Xpress / Seven-year study reveals rheumatoid arthritis begins long before symptoms, opening door to prevention
Scientists have discovered that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) doesn't start when the pain begins. It silently starts years earlier. RA is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes painful joint inflammation and damage. The ...
Medical Xpress / How a 'speech gene' could help treat Huntington's
In fatal genetic diseases like Huntington's and spinocerebellar ataxia, proteins develop long stretches of repeating letters that are prone to sticking together like Velcro.
Medical Xpress / Supercentenarian's biology shows the delicate balance of longevity
Recent studies suggest that the steady rise in life expectancy observed over the past 200 years has now stagnated. Data indicate that a limit has been reached, and that medical and health care advances no longer affect longevity ...
Medical Xpress / Lung-on-a-chip with working immune system protects itself like a living organ
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving ...
Medical Xpress / No GPS in the head: How the brain flexibly switches between internal maps
Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg ...
Medical Xpress / What supplement labels say, versus what consumers think they mean
Consumers read common supplement label phrases as promises of disease prevention or treatment, according to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center research.
Medical Xpress / Early changes during brain development may hold the key to autism and schizophrenia
Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development and aging of the human brain, offering new insights into how conditions such as autism and schizophrenia ...
Medical Xpress / Racial discrimination linked to higher risk of developing psychotic symptoms
Being racially or ethnically discriminated against may increase the risk of later developing psychotic symptoms, finds a major review of international evidence led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
Medical Xpress / How human behavior, lockdowns and restrictions shaped COVID-19's spread
University of Kansas researcher Folashade Agusto trained as an applied mathematician, though today she's an associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology. She uses that mathematical training and computers to model ...
Medical Xpress / 'Rogue' scaffolding cells may hold key to treating multiple diseases at once
Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how fibroblasts go 'rogue' in many different diseases affecting multiple organs—from acne and psoriasis, ...
Medical Xpress / A coordinated dance between two proteins is essential for stronger brain connections
Scientists from the Nencki Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a key mechanism in how our brains change when we learn new information or form memories. A new study published in Science ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic screening technique could enhance CAR-T therapies for multiple myeloma and other cancers
Researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified genetic modifications that can improve the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell treatment—an immunotherapy that ...
