A new paper describes the role of two RNA-binding proteins in the development of sarcoma and carcinoma cancers, highlighting the important and emerging role of RNA-binding proteins in cancer rese...
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Repeated exposure to explosive blasts has the potential to cause brain injuries, but there is currently no diagnostic test for these injuries. In a study of 30 active-duty United States SOF perso...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-blast-brain-injury-duty-states.html
While there's a strong determination worldwide to return to a new normal in a post-COVID world, the pandemic is nearly impossible to forget. A large amount of data also provides insight we may no...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-intervention-covid-pandemic.html
Development of chronic musculoskeletal pain can be influenced by socioeconomics, fear of movement, smoking and poorer support networks, new research shows.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-chronic-pain-linked-socioeconomic-background.html
Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University (BU) have published a new study detailing the development of a method for generating human alveolar epithelial type I cells (AT1s)...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-furthers-lung-regeneration.html
Researchers from the University of Cologne have found a new use for cnicin, a substance produced in blessed thistle. Their article "Cnicin promotes functional nerve regeneration" features clinica...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-compound-thistle-functional-nerve-regeneration.html
When a mouthful of water goes down the wrong pipe—heading toward a healthy person's lungs instead of their gut—they start coughing uncontrollably. That's because their upper airway senses the...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-scientists-airway-cells-aspirated-acid.html
It's long been recognized that some of the groups most likely to get dementia, including African Americans and Hispanics, are greatly underrepresented in clinical trials. Now a new USC study show...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-links-lack-diversity-alzheimer-disease.html
A medical researcher at Tel Aviv University, working with a group of computer scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, both in Israel, has found that fasting glucose levels in nondiabetic...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-glucose-nondiabetic-people-vary-thought.html
A study of mice suggests a father's diet may shape the anxiety of his sons and the metabolic health of his daughters before they are even conceived.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mouse-father-diet-health-offspring.html
New research shows that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in studies into multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs), despite being more likely to be affected.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-ethnic-minorities-underrepresented-multiple-term.html
"Break a leg!" is a welcome blessing of good luck, but who wants to hear that they have actually broken a bone? What's worse, fractures that are displaced or complex require surgery and possibly ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-treatment-method-plasma-irradiation-faster.html
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are next-generation drugs that can treat disease by blocking the transfer of harmful messages from our genes. In people with cancer, ASOs have the potential to b...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-effective-drug-delivery-generation-treatments.html
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may disrupt their brains' memory ability for a long time.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-rats-junk-food-diet-term.html
New research presents a significant discovery: small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) from the blood of young mice possess the capacity to dramatically extend lifespan, rejuvenate whole-body physiol...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mouse-small-extracellular-vesicles-young.html
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-vaccine-strategy-line-endless-boosters.html
Manisha Jhamb, M.D., launched the Kidney-CHAMP study five years ago because she saw a looming tsunami of chronic kidney disease cases. She was pulled to find a way to assist the primary care phys...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-kidney-disease-intervention-outcomes-null.html
An analysis of the biomolecule substudy of the EAST–AFNET 4 trial has revealed that biomolecule concentrations in the blood of patients with atrial fibrillation can be used to identify patients...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-circulating-biomolecules-patients-atrial-fibrillation.html
The most common type of lung fibrosis—scarring of the lungs—is idiopathic, meaning of unknown cause. Researchers are urgently trying to find ways to prevent or slow idiopathic pulmonary fibro...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-reveals-potential-reverse-lung-fibrosis.html
The typical job of the proteasome, the garbage disposal of the cell, is to grind down proteins into smaller bits and recycle some of those bits and parts. That's still the case, for the most part...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cell-garbage-disposal-role-neurons.html
Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. An international team ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-molecular-functions-opioid-receptors.html
Vosoritide's first global Phase II study showed an average increased growth rate of 1.8 cm per year in children with hypochondroplasia, a genetic cause of short stature in children, according to ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-clinical-trial-vosoritide-children-hypochondroplasia.html
A team of reproductive researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and the U.S. has found that the timing of monthly ovarian cycles in women is mostly likely attributable to the ci...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-thousands-women-ovarian-circadian-rhythm.html
Approximately one in seven couples face difficulties conceiving a child naturally. Half of these cases are due to male infertility—either caused by the complete absence or low number of mature ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-male-infertility-genetic-molecular-diagnostics.html
A chemical modification in the HIV-1 RNA genome whose function has been a matter of scientific debate is now confirmed to be key to the virus's ability to survive and thrive after infecting host ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-rna-chemical-modifications-benefit-hiv.html
Severe sepsis from bacterial or viral infections can be life-threatening and even people recovering from severe sepsis may experience long-lasting effects on the immune system, making them more s...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-blood-stem-cells-clues-sepsis.html
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered why some pancreatic and colorectal cancers fail to respond to Wnt inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer drugs currently under developmen...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-scientists-uncover-key-resistance-mechanism.html
Researchers have for the first time identified critical targets in the molecular signature of Parkinson's disease across different stages of the disease's progression.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-advance-parkinson-disease.html
Cockayne syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective DNA repair mechanisms. People with the disease have much reduced life expectancy and suffer from facial deformities;...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cockayne-syndrome-insights-cellular-dna.html
As lung cells are killed by the influenza virus, they burst open, releasing molecular signals that trigger the immune cells that can combat the infection. This strategy can be an important red fl...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-flu-compound-blocks-unnecessary-cell.html