Neck Device Shows Promise in Protecting the Brain of Female Soccer Players

First-of-its-kind study looks at female athletes wearing experimental neck collar
15-Oct-2018 8:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Making Mice A Tiny Bit More Human to Study Preterm Birth

Preterm birth remains a global epidemic linked to a lifetime of potential health complications. It also is difficult to study in living creatures—especially the uniquely precise biology of preterm birth in humans. Researchers report in PLoS...
2-Oct-2018 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Doctors Issue Caution over Missed Cancer Diagnoses Tied to Immune Disorder

Physicians who specialize in a devastating and aggressive immune disorder called hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) report in a new study that extra care should be taken to ensure an HLH diagnosis doesn’t obscure possible underlying cancers....
1-Oct-2018 9:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Two Studies Describe Improved Approach to Bone Marrow Transplants

Two recent studies in the journal Leukemia present a new approach for bone marrow donation and transplant that preclinical laboratory tests suggest could make the life-saving procedure safer and more effective for patients. Researchers say their...
25-Sep-2018 12:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists Grow Human Esophagus in Lab

Scientists working to bioengineer the entire human gastrointestinal system in a laboratory now report using pluripotent stem cells to grow human esophageal organoids. The newly published research in the journal Cell Stem Cell is the first time...
17-Sep-2018 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Detecting Epigenetic Signature May Help People Stay Ahead of IBD

With an estimated 1.6 million people in the U.S. dealing with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), physicians can have a hard time telling which newly diagnosed patients have a high risk of severe inflammation or what therapies will be most effective....
18-Sep-2018 1:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Timing May Be Everything When Taking Meds

Using new bioinformatics tools to analyze thousands of human tissue samples, researchers created a new database of daily rhythms in human gene activity—including many genes that regulate how drugs work. Reporting in Science Translational Medicine,...
10-Sep-2018 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists Block RNA Silencing Protein in Liver to Prevent Obesity and Diabetes in Mice

Obesity and its related ailments like type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease pose a major global health burden, but researchers report in Nature Communications that blocking an RNA-silencing protein in the livers of mice keeps the animals from...
10-Sep-2018 11:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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