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Medical Xpress / New bioadhesive strategy can prevent fibrous encapsulation around device implants on peripheral nerves
Peripheral nerves—the network connecting the brain, spinal cord, and central nervous system to the rest of the body—transmit sensory information, control muscle movements, and regulate automatic bodily functions. Bioelectronic ...
Medical Xpress / Spatial transcriptomics gains quality control with new open-source repository and protocols
Spatial transcriptomics provides a unique perspective on the genes that cells express and where those cells are located. However, the rapid growth of the technology has come at the cost of standardization and consistency. ...
Medical Xpress / New test distinguishes vaccine-induced false positives from active HIV infection
Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes. Currently, nearly 40 ...
Medical Xpress / New vaccine sparks hope in whooping cough control
A human challenge trial has shown a new vaccine could offer better protection against whooping cough. The new study, delivered in partnership between the University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton, and the ...
Medical Xpress / NeuMap: A pioneering map of neutrophils that redefines their role in health, infection and inflammation
Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in the body and the first to respond to infection or tissue damage. Yet despite their importance, until now very little was known about how they truly function, how they change ...
Medical Xpress / Age-related muscle wasting tied to cell recycling defect
Two related studies published today in Nature Metabolism show that a specialized intracellular recycling mechanism—chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)—is essential for muscle health.
Medical Xpress / 30 distinct genes that influence vitamin D status identified in new study
Trinity researchers have led a new collaborative study, combining large genetic datasets with satellite weather data and uncovering more than 30 distinct genes that influence vitamin D status, many of which were not previously ...
Medical Xpress / Why stress can make your hair fall out: A two-part reaction
It's well known that stress can trigger hair loss. A new paper explores how this happens and how our response to stress can have long-term consequences for our scalps, research that may eventually yield insights into autoimmune ...
Medical Xpress / Cracking the code of Parkinson's: How supercomputers are pointing to new treatments
More than 1 million Americans live with tremors, slowed movement and speech changes caused by Parkinson's disease—a degenerative and currently incurable condition, according to the Parkinson's Foundation and the Mayo Clinic. ...
Medical Xpress / Hidden cellular layers revealed in brain's memory center
Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified a previously unknown pattern of organization in one of the brain's most important ...
Medical Xpress / Breast cancer remodels lymphatic vessels to accelerate its spread, research reveals
Breast cancer is able to modify the lymphatic vessels through which it travels to the draining lymph nodes. From there, it can then spread to other parts of the body. A new finding by Finnish researchers may help develop ...
Medical Xpress / Human gene maps are biased towards European ancestries, study reveals
Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
