Medications
What are the biggest issues in drug discovery and development?
More incentives to discover and develop innovative treatments. Enabling companies to work together more easily. Flexible pricing for new medicines.
Nov 25, 2020
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News tagged with systems medicine
Neuroscience
Myelin optimizes information processing in the brain
In a conversation, we can easily understand and distinguish individual words. In the brain, the temporal structure of speech with its rapid succession of sounds and pauses and its characteristic rhythm is encoded by electrical ...
Nov 5, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine follows its programmed genetic instructions, independent analysis finds
A team at Bristol University has used recently developed techniques to validate that the vaccine accurately follows the genetic instructions programmed into it by the Oxford team.
Oct 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Young adults face higher risk of severe disease from infections than school-age children
The first systematic review of how the severity of infectious diseases changes with age suggests that the human immune system might start to lose the ability to protect against infections earlier than previously thought, ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Historical racial and ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact
A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities of color in the United States, and ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Neuroscience
Thicker nerve fibers enable faster reactions in mice
In order for organisms to react swiftly to stimuli in their environment, they need rapid and precise transmission of nerve impulses along neural extensions known as axons. Whereas some invertebrates have developed very thick ...
Sep 18, 2020
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Immunology
Reprogramming immune cells to reduce inflammation, promote tissue repair
Macrophages are white blood cells that, depending on the signals they get from the immune system, become specialized in either increasing or decreasing inflammation. When macrophages are programmed to be pro-inflammatory, ...
Aug 24, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Team creates better tool to aid COVID diagnosis
An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed up to show the same techniques used for research on reptile and bird lungs can be used to help confirm the diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients. Their ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Diabetes
First immune-evading cells created to treat type 1 diabetes
Salk Institute scientists have made a major advance in the pursuit of a safe and effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, an illness that impacts an estimated 1.6 million Americans with a cost of $14.4 billion annually.
Aug 19, 2020
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Neuroscience
Evidence in mice that electroacupuncture reduces inflammation via specific neural pathways
A team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame cytokine storm in mice with systemic inflammation.
Aug 12, 2020
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