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Monday, Feb 05

Study finds new treatment to reverse inflammation and arterial blockages in rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found that the molecule RvT4 enhances the body's natural defenses against atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Feb 5, 2024

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Are body temperature and depression linked? New study says, yes

People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with the disorder, a new UC San Francisco-led study found.

Feb 5, 2024

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Immune response, not acute viral infections, responsible for neurological damage, researchers discover

For years, there has been a long-held belief that acute viral infections like Zika or COVID-19 are directly responsible for neurological damage, but researchers from McMaster University have now discovered that it's the immune ...

Feb 5, 2024

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A neural mechanism that could underlie fasting-mediated immune regulation

Fasting, the voluntary abstention from eating and sometimes drinking for a set time, has become increasingly widespread, as some studies have found that it could boost the immune system and help prevent the development of ...

Feb 5, 2024 feature

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COVID-19 researchers discover hidden natural immune defense pathway

An international cohort of scientists researching COVID-19 has uncovered a hidden part of the human immune system that creates anti-viral agents.

Feb 5, 2024

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Study finds Black adults are losing sleep over killings of unarmed Black individuals by police

Black adults across the United States suffer from sleep problems following exposure to news about unarmed Black individuals killed by police during police encounters, according to new findings published today (Feb. 5) in ...

Feb 5, 2024

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Visualizing multiple sclerosis with a new MRI procedure

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that usually leads to permanent disabilities. It affects about 2.9 million people worldwide, and about 15,000 in Switzerland alone. One key feature of the disease is that ...

Feb 5, 2024

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Tuesday, Feb 06

New study identifies gene believed to be responsible for ALS and dementia

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered why a gene, when mutated, is a common cause of two debilitating brain diseases: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia ...

Feb 6, 2024

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Italian scientists reveal a mechanism of resistance pancreatic cancer cells use to evade therapies

Italian scientists from Università Cattolica at Rome have discovered an important genetic mechanism that pancreatic cancer cells employ to evade therapies, paving the way to new drugs for a killer disease. The tumor evades ...

Feb 6, 2024

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World-first discovery may enable an effective long-term lupus treatment

Australian researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their world-first discovery will offer effective long-term treatment.

Feb 6, 2024

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Research team discovers potential Alzheimer's drug

A potential new drug to prevent Alzheimer's disease in people with the so-called Alzheimer's gene has been discovered by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research team led by Sue Griffin, Ph.D.

Feb 6, 2024

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Healthy living builds 'cognitive reserve' in brain that may prevent dementia

New research suggests healthy lifestyles can help stave off dementia, perhaps by building a resilient 'cognitive reserve' in the aging brain.

Feb 6, 2024

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New analysis reveals many excess deaths attributed to natural causes are actually uncounted COVID-19 deaths

A new study provides the most compelling data yet to suggest that excess mortality rates from chronic illnesses and other natural causes were actually driven by COVID-19 infections, disproving high-profile claims that have ...

Feb 6, 2024

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Odors may prompt certain brain cells to make decisions

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that odors stimulate specific brain cells that may play a role in rapid "go/no-go" decision-making.

Feb 6, 2024

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Wednesday, Feb 07

Researchers discover that blocking ephrin B2 signaling can stop multiple myeloma growth

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have discovered a protein expressed on multiple myeloma cancer cells that drives disease growth and development. The new study found that blocking part of the protein's unique signaling pathway ...

Feb 7, 2024

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Researchers discover new cell that remembers allergies

Researchers with McMaster University and Denmark-based pharmaceutical company ALK-Abello A/S have made a groundbreaking discovery: a new cell that remembers allergies.

Feb 7, 2024

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Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine

Generative artificial intelligence platforms, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, grabbed headlines in 2023. But GenAI can do more than create collaged images and help write emails—it can also design new drugs to treat disease.

Feb 7, 2024

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Stress found to influence brain and psyche via immune system

Chronic stress has far-reaching consequences for our bodies. For example, many stress-related psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, are associated with changes in the immune system. However, the underlying mechanisms ...

Feb 7, 2024

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New technique could make human T cells 100 times more potent at killing cancer cells

Scientists at the UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Northwestern Medicine may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself.

Feb 7, 2024

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Cracking the code to vitamin D: How you store and cook your eggs matters

Scientists have shown that storing your eggs on the worktop rather than in the fridge—and how you cook them—matters when it comes to preserving vitamin D, known as the "sunshine vitamin."

Feb 7, 2024

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Psychedelic experiences linked with improved sexual function

Magic mushrooms, LSD and other psychoactive compounds may help to improve sexual function for months after the psychedelic experience.

Feb 7, 2024

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Thursday, Feb 08

Faulty DNA disposal system found to cause inflammation

Cells in the human body contain power-generating mitochondria, each with their own mtDNA—a unique set of genetic instructions entirely separate from the cell's nuclear DNA that mitochondria use to create life-giving energy. ...

Feb 8, 2024

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Even with resolution, acute kidney injury in newborns can be life-threatening from very first episode

Our resilient kidneys are invaluable members of the body's purification system, and they excel at bouncing back after injury. This even holds true for most sick infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Because of this ...

Feb 8, 2024

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Heart-to-heart connection: Collaboration brings a breakthrough science exhibit to life

One of the country's best-known science museums, San Francisco's Exploratorium, is located less than three miles north of Gladstone Institutes—proximity that has resulted in creative, high-science collaborations like the ...

Feb 8, 2024

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Online tool that empowers parents to treat child anxiety could expand access to child mental health services

New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that an online program that empowers parents to apply Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles in their child's day to day lives is just as effective as traditional ...

Feb 8, 2024

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Research team develops blood test to predict psychosis risk and most effective treatments

A team of researchers led by Indiana University School of Medicine faculty have developed a breakthrough new blood test for schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder that includes hallucinations and delusions.

Feb 8, 2024

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For people with memory struggles after brain injuries, the brain's processing speed is the main culprit: Study

If you try to save a file while your laptop lags, it won't save. Similarly, when our brains have delayed processing speeds, they "lag" and impair our ability to receive information and store memory. Researchers find that ...

Feb 8, 2024

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The ethical dilemmas of preventing the next pandemic

Could protecting one group of people from disease, and exposing another to it, be the best way to prevent as many deaths as possible and reduce the impact of a future pandemic? A study led by some La Trobe academics says ...

Feb 8, 2024

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Friday, Feb 09

Researchers discover one million new components of the human genome

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have found nearly one million new exons—stretches of DNA that are expressed in mature RNA—in the human genome.

Feb 9, 2024

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Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variant JN.1 raises concerns with increased transmissibility and immune evasion

The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 variant JN.1 has sparked global concern due to its distinct genetic features and heightened infectivity. Carrying more than 30 spike protein mutations, including the hallmark Leu455Ser, JN.1 ...

Feb 9, 2024

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Study argues that large language models can reveal breakthroughs in neuroscience that humans alone cannot

The past year has seen major advances in large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. The ability of these models to interpret and produce human text sources (and other sequence data) has implications for people in many ...

Feb 9, 2024

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Protein accumulation on fat droplets implicated in late-onset Alzheimer's disease

UNC School of Medicine researcher Sarah Cohen, Ph.D., and Ian Windham, a former Ph.D. student from the Cohen lab, have made a new discovery about apolipoprotein E (APOE)—the biggest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's ...

Feb 9, 2024

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New strategy for safer CAR T cell therapy in lymphomas

In treating aggressive lymphomas and blood cancer (leukemia), chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR T cells) are increasingly being used. For this therapy, immune cells are taken from patients and programmed by means of ...

Feb 9, 2024

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Ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of internal organs, could help identify early signs of acute liver failure

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. The sticker, about the size of a postage stamp, can be worn on the skin and is designed to pick up on ...

Feb 9, 2024

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Research links prison time with increase of TB

Tuberculosis, the main cause of death due to a single pathogen globally, causes more than 1.5 million deaths each year. New research from the University of Cincinnati finds that being in prison or being a former prisoner ...

Feb 9, 2024

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Saturday, Feb 10

Quitting smoking at any age brings big health benefits, fast: Study

People who quit smoking see major gains in life expectancy after just a few years, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers at Unity Health Toronto.

Feb 10, 2024

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Immune genes are altered in Alzheimer's patients' blood

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients' behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes ...

Feb 10, 2024

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Having COVID-19 and Long COVID can impact women's sex lives

From work to school to socializing, COVID-19 has impacted just about every part of our lives—and now Boston University research has shown that also includes what happens in the bedroom. A study of more than 2,000 cisgender ...

Feb 10, 2024

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Using ion beams to improve brain microscopy

Improving the way scientists can see the microscopic structures of the brain can improve our understanding of a host of brain diseases, like Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis. Studying these diseases is challenging and has ...

Feb 10, 2024

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Faster mpox testing through CRISPR

Mpox is a rare viral disease that is spread through physical contact between people. Currently, testing for mpox requires lab equipment and can take a few hours to get test results. But new research suggests a way for faster ...

Feb 10, 2024

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Harnessing human evolution to advance precision medicine

Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, Ph.D., founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use evolution to improve health ...

Feb 10, 2024

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Heart attack symptoms in women are often different than men

Sweating, nausea, dizziness and unusual fatigue may not sound like typical heart attack symptoms. However, they are common for women and may occur more often when resting or asleep.

Feb 10, 2024

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Sunday, Feb 11

Gut microbiome: Meet Asaccharobacter celatus—the brain health bug

There's a great deal of interest from scientists and the public alike in how we can keep our minds sharp and our brains healthy as we get older.

Feb 11, 2024

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Cognitive benefits seen two years after bariatric surgery

Bariatric surgery (BS) is associated with cognitive benefits two years after surgery, according to a study published online Feb. 9 in JAMA Network Open.

Feb 11, 2024

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Study highlights financial burden of dementia on older adults, families

A new study that provides details on out-of-pocket expenses for people with dementia finds that costs for long-term care create a financial burden that can easily consume nearly all their income.

Feb 11, 2024

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Schools are trying to get more students therapy. Not all parents are on board

Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist.

Feb 11, 2024

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You could lie to a health chatbot—but it might change how you perceive yourself

Imagine that you are on the waiting list for a non-urgent operation. You were seen in the clinic some months ago, but still don't have a date for the procedure. It is extremely frustrating, but it seems that you will just ...

Feb 11, 2024

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