Cardiology
Study questions blood pressure drug guidance based on age and ethnicity
No evidence found to support differing advice according to age and ethnicity
Nov 18, 2020
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Neuroscience
UTSA professor develops open-access software for cytoskeleton
Researchers around the world now have access to an open-access software designed to further characterize cytoskeleton filaments.
Nov 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neuron
It appears that autophagy protects neurons in the brain, but for different reasons than previously assumed, as researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and Charité in Berlin have ...
Nov 5, 2020
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Neuroscience
Neural sensors that use near-infrared light can reveal brain activity deep within animal models
Biomedical engineers, cell biologists and neuroscientists at Duke University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a new type of genetically encoded neural biosensor that operates in near-infrared light.
Oct 27, 2020
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Neuroscience
Regeneration of eye cells: Warning lights discovered
Moving around in the half-light is difficult but not impossible. To help us in this undertaking we have the rods, a type of light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors) present in the retina of vertebrates, capable of detecting ...
Oct 23, 2020
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Medical research
Making bones is less difficult than was previously thought
The way in which bone formation occurs needs to be redefined. This was revealed by Radboud university medical center researchers and their colleagues in a publication in Nature Communications. It turns out that bone formation ...
Oct 8, 2020
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Health
Soy, oat, almond, rice, coconut, dairy: Which milk is best for our health?
A trip to the supermarket presents shoppers with an overwhelming number of milk choices. And far from just being the domain of the modern hipster, plant-based milk alternatives are going mainstream.
Sep 29, 2020
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Medical research
Twinkling, star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we sleep
A new study published today in the journal Current Biology suggests that star-shaped brain cells known as astrocytes could be as important to the regulation of sleep as neurons, the brain's nerve cells.
Sep 24, 2020
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Health
Poverty-stricken adults more likely to be calcium-, vitamin D-deficient
(HealthDay)—Adequate calcium and vitamin D intake in older Americans is greatly influenced by ethnicity, sex, household income, and food security, according to a study recently published in PLOS ONE.
Sep 10, 2020
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Genetics
Study targets gene associated with Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are on the track of a gene that might play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. The research team is studying a gene called BIN1, which was first linked ...
Sep 4, 2020
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