Surgery

Quadriceps tendon autograft has lower MRI signal

An analysis of MRI images of the tissue grafts used for patients who underwent surgery to repair the anterior cruciate knee ligament suggests grafts used from the quadriceps may be superior to tissue grafts from the hamstring. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Identifying the main culprit of the COVID-19 disaster

A research team led by Professor Jianping Huang from Lanzhou University has launched a Global Prediction System for the COVID-19 pandemic. Their recent work explored the periodicity and mutability in the evolutionary history ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

A complex link between body mass index and Alzheimer's

Though obesity in midlife is linked to an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests that a high body mass index later in life doesn't necessarily translate to greater chances of developing the brain disease.

Medical research

Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Capsaicin analog could help treatment-resistant lung cancer

A new study found that non-pungent synthetic analog of capsaicin—the compound that makes chili peppers hot—made small cell lung cancer cells more responsive to treatment. Small cell lung cancer is a very aggressive form ...

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