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Medical Xpress / Portable CRISPR-based test detects four STIs, including syphilis, in under an hour
Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first portable point-of-care test that detects four common sexually transmitted infections at once, in under ...
Medical Xpress / Stem cells from human baby teeth show promise for treating cerebral palsy
A Japanese research team has demonstrated in rat experiments that stem cells from human primary tooth pulp may help treat chronic-phase cerebral palsy. "This is the first animal study to show that stem cell treatment works ...
Medical Xpress / Automated CT scan analysis could fast-track clinical assessments
A research team has developed a versatile machine learning model that could one day greatly expand what medical scans can tell us about disease. Scientists used their tool, named Merlin, to assess 3D abdominal computed tomography ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers link Parkinson's-related protein to faster Alzheimer's progression in women
Alzheimer's-related brain changes progressed up to 20 times faster in women who also had abnormal levels of a Parkinson's-related protein, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in JAMA Network Open. The same pattern ...
Medical Xpress / An existing, FDA-approved drug could stem the spread of breast cancer
Cancer spreads (metastasizes) when tumor cells shed from a primary solid tumor (for example, in the breast) and embed in other organs, such as the lung, liver, and brain, and begin to grow. Most approaches to prevent this ...
Medical Xpress / Using tiny ripples at skin level to monitor for possible health problems below
Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal details about what lies beneath. By analyzing the physics of waves traveling across the surface of ...
Medical Xpress / Ongoing problems with kids' heart transplant waitlists found in two studies
More babies and children survive the wait for a heart transplant than in the past, but improvements are due to better medical care, not changes to waitlist rules, a new study finds. The method used across the United States ...
Medical Xpress / AI-based liquid biopsy may detect liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and chronic disease signals
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based liquid biopsy test using genome-wide cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragmentation patterns and repeat landscapes can detect early ...
Medical Xpress / When a helpful brain signal gets stuck: An autism-linked chain reaction
Think of the brain as a city with traffic lights that keep signals flowing smoothly. In a new study, researchers followed a clue about nitric oxide, a common chemical messenger, and found that, in some forms of autism, if ...
Medical Xpress / Chemists shed light on how age-related cataracts may begin
Cataracts are a leading cause of blindness worldwide and are considered a priority disease by the World Health Organization. In a new study, researchers at the University of California, Irvine uncovered how a subtle chemical ...
Medical Xpress / Machine-learning immune-system analysis study may hold clues to personalized medicine
How people with compromised immune systems respond to vaccines is an important area of immunological research. A study led by York University has found that not only could machine-learning models accurately pinpoint differences ...
Medical Xpress / Why zebrafish larvae prefer to circle left or right may explain how human brains encode right‑ and left‑handedness
Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself that you likely don't think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world.
