Like Zika, infection with Rift Valley fever virus can go unnoticed during pregnancy, all the while doing irreparable—often lethal—harm to the fetus. The results of a new study, led by researchers at the University of ...
Dec 5, 2018
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Using both mouse and human brain tissue, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel some of the virus's effects on brain ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Scientists investigating heart failure have been limited to studying diseased heart tissue in the lab—understandably, as people don't tend to pluck out a healthy heart for the sake of research. But now, scientists with ...
Jun 24, 2019
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The Bmal1 gene, found throughout the human body, is believed to be a critical part of the body's main molecular timekeeper, but after deleting it in animal models, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
Feb 19, 2020
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The human immune system is incredibly versatile. Among its most skilled multitaskers are T cells, known for their role in everything from fighting infection to reining in inflammation to killing nascent tumors.
Mar 2, 2023
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A research team led by Professor Kelvin Yeung Wai-kwok from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has designed a non-invasive ...
Jun 20, 2022
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A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, resulting in 18 million deaths per year. These numbers are expected to increase in coming years because of cardiovascular complications ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Studying drug effects on human muscles just got easier thanks to a new "muscle-on-a-chip," developed by a team of researchers from Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Inha University in Incheon, Korea.
Jul 8, 2021
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The human brain has some remarkable capabilities—including the ability to block cancer drugs from effectively reaching cancer cells in the brain.
Nov 12, 2019
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Muscular dystrophy, which affects approximately 250,000 people in the U.S., occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fibrous, fatty or bony tissue and loses function. For years, scientists have searched for a way ...
Oct 22, 2015
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