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Medical Xpress / Placing battery tech directly on tissue to deliver lithium ions for targeted pain relief
A new study from the University of Chicago taps an ingredient most often used in the lithium-ion batteries that power our devices to open new avenues in biomedical technology. Lithium plays vital roles in the body, but taking ...
Medical Xpress / Common disinfectant chemicals far more toxic when inhaled, study finds
Breathing in common disinfectant chemicals known as quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, may be far more harmful than swallowing them, according to a mouse study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. ...
Medical Xpress / Light impacts how the brain perceives and remembers threats, study suggests
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that light plays a key role in how animals perceive environmental threats, findings that have the potential to improve the understanding of risk avoidance behaviors and related ...
Medical Xpress / Why feeling alone may matter more than being alone
Loneliness is often described as a simple absence—of people, of connection, of companionship. But two new studies suggest it may be something more complex, and more consequential: not just how socially connected people are, ...
Medical Xpress / A long-term and scalable system to record from neural organoids
Neural organoids have been heralded as having huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the brain in several fields. These include exploring the responses of brain tissue to drugs, investigating the effect of specific ...
Medical Xpress / Discovery of noma-linked bacteria opens path to early diagnosis and prevention
Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a bacterium strongly associated with noma disease, marking a major step toward earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment. In a new study published ...
Medical Xpress / 20,000 lab-grown human retinas reveal how cone photoreceptor cells resist degeneration
Scientists led by Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and collaborators have identified genetic pathways and compounds capable of protecting cone photoreceptors from the degeneration ...
Medical Xpress / A new lens on autism's sex bias: How X chromosome 'escape' genes could shape risk
Autism has a significant and enduring sex bias, with roughly four boys diagnosed for every girl. For many years, experts have believed this disparity arises primarily from diagnostic inequities because much of autism research—and ...
Medical Xpress / Shedding light on the brain: New method controls neural pathway communication
Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated networks. But scientists have ...
Medical Xpress / For severe babesiosis, red blood cell exchange is associated with markedly improved outcomes
A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham and Yale School of Public Health reveals that red blood cell exchange transfusion (ET) may provide critical benefits for patients hospitalized with severe babesiosis. ...
Medical Xpress / Newly discovered recessive neurodevelopmental disorder may be most prevalent ever
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified and described a previously unknown recessive neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that appears to be the most prevalent ever discovered. ...
Medical Xpress / Autism risk genes are shared across ancestries, research reveals
A new study, co-led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published March 30 in Nature Medicine, demonstrates that genes associated with autism risk are largely the same across people of different ...
