In a new study published in iScience, Mayo Clinic researchers found that a novel 4D echo imaging method that measures cardiac strain may detect subtle changes in the heart's dysfunction during acute myocarditis, a deadly ...
Feb 1, 2024
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The most common immune cells in our bodies that form the front line in the immune system's defenses against infections are neutrophilic granulocytes. At the same time, neutrophils are also involved in a number of different ...
Jan 31, 2024
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An international team of scientists has developed a flexible electrode that wraps around muscles, nerves and hearts to deliver electrical stimulation to tissues or record electrical activity. Inspired by spider silk, the ...
Jan 30, 2024
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Five cases of Alzheimer's disease are believed to have arisen as a result of medical treatments decades earlier, reports a team of UCL and UCLH researchers.
Jan 29, 2024
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Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found direct evidence that exposure to common cold coronaviruses can train T cells to fight SARS-CoV-2. In fact, prior exposure to a common cold coronavirus appears ...
Jan 26, 2024
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Professor Alessio Fasano, a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US, has several relatives and friends raising children with autism—a neurological disorder characterized by impaired social behavior—so ...
Jan 26, 2024
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Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In the U.S., cervical cancer is no longer a common cause of cancer death because of the use of a screening ...
Jan 26, 2024
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In the late nineteenth century, physicians started treating human disease with blood serum extracted from immunized horses. But those extracts—which contained antibodies that target disease agents—often produced disastrous ...
Jan 25, 2024
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A new Cell Reports paper from Bing Yao's lab in Emory's Department of Human Genetics provides insights into mechanisms underlying several neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and Alzheimer's.
Jan 24, 2024
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH, is an inflammatory, liver-scarring disease that has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 1.5% to 6.5% of U.S. adults afflicted by the condition, and roughly ...
Jan 23, 2024
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