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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 / How bacteria outsmart the immune system: Two-pronged strategy revealed
Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in more than one way, offering a clearer picture of how infections take hold at the cellular level. The ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers reveal new findings in study of bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis is a long-term health condition in which airways are constantly irritated or inflamed, leading to permanent airway damage and a buildup of mucus. This often causes a chronic cough and infections. People with ...
Medical Xpress / What sea slugs can teach us about learning strategies
What is the optimal way to learn something new? In a JNeurosci paper, John Byrne and colleagues, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, bring us a step closer to answering this question by using Aplysia, ...
Phys.org / Potential disease marker, therapeutic target for cats with osteoarthritis identified
By comparing osteoarthritis pain pathways known to be active in dogs and humans to those in cats with degenerative joint disease (DJD), researchers found that elevation of a particular molecule, artemin, could serve as a ...
Medical Xpress / Burnout may lead family doctors to leave medicine
Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely than their peers who don't report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers ...
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. ...
Phys.org / New Henrietta spectrograph to probe alien atmospheres
Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly imaged by blocking their ...
Tech Xplore / Eco-friendly plastic plates could replace steel bars in concrete
Researchers at the University of Sharjah have demonstrated that concrete can be reinforced using polymer plates instead of steel bars, with the new material showing superior strength, ductility, and energy dissipation. The ...
Phys.org / Research urges housing providers to shield women, families from abuse and gambling risks
A new study has found that gambling harms can intensify domestic abuse and act as a form of escapism for female victims—putting women and children at risk of long-term housing instability. The research, produced in partnership ...
Medical Xpress / Jail-based programs could dramatically reduce hepatitis C infections
A Stanford study shows that jail-based hepatitis C programs could cut new infections by nearly half among people who inject drugs, potentially providing a major boost to lagging U.S. efforts to meet national hepatitis C elimination ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers compare brain markers affected by brief versus lengthy exposure to alcohol in mice
Erica Periandri and Gabor Egervari, from Washington University in St. Louis, led a study to explore how alcohol exposure in male mice influences gene expression and mechanisms that regulate gene function—or epigenetics.
