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Medical Xpress / Toxic air in the home is a global health emergency
After joining the GBD 2021 Household Air Pollution team, an international effort to quantify the global health burden of household air pollution from 1990 to 2021, I expected familiar work: analyzing how indoor smoke harms ...
Medical Xpress / Glut1 protein may be a potential therapeutic target for kidney disease
Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or Glut1) could be a new way to fight kidney disease, according to a study led by Partha Biswas, DVM, ...
Tech Xplore / Residential solar panels can raise electricity rates
A modeling study shows how, under some conditions, increasing numbers of households with rooftop solar panels can lead to higher rates for those without their own solar system. When utility customers cancel their accounts ...
Medical Xpress / Early Parkinson's predictor found in daily step count
Oxford's Big Data Institute and Nuffield Department of Population Health report that daily step counts may help identify who will later be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, with lower activity patterns acting as an early ...
Medical Xpress / Childhood leukemia aggressiveness depends on timing of genetic mutation, research reveals
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different outcomes: It depends on when in development the ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers make strides toward preventing parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease
Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a lifesaving means of nutritional support for thousands of hospitalized infants who cannot tolerate normal oral feeding due to the immaturity or surgical removal of the intestine due to congenital ...
Phys.org / Hydrogel switches from liquid to gel at body temperature, enabling easy removal
What if a doctor could inject an electricity-conducting liquid into the body, let it temporarily solidify to record nerve signals or jump-start healing, and then return it to liquid form for easy removal?
Medical Xpress / Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment
A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
Phys.org / Towards sustainable organic synthesis—mechanochemistry replaces lithium with sodium in organic reactions
Highly reactive organometallic reagents, like organolithiums (molecules with a carbon–lithium bond) are essential reagents in organic synthesis because of their applications from polymer synthesis to pharmaceuticals, and ...
Medical Xpress / Pancreatic cancer cells 'speak the language' of organs they will later invade, study reveals
Even as they develop at their primary site, pancreatic cancer cells are already expressing the genes that will determine where they will metastasize, according to new findings from Columbia researchers. The work, published ...
Tech Xplore / EU launches antitrust probe into Google's data use for AI
The EU announced Tuesday it had opened a probe to assess whether Google breached antitrust rules by using content put online by media and other publishers to train and provide AI services without appropriate compensation.
Phys.org / Novel compound attacks tuberculosis bacteria's ATP synthase, showing promise against drug resistance
Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The team have produced a compound that inhibits the pathogens' ability ...
