Day May 28, 2024

Credit: RSC Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4RA02656J A research group in Japan has established a microfluidic control technology that can be applied to small blood testing devices and consequently developed a novel integrated immunoassay device. This microfluidic control technology is expected…

(A, B) Cross-sectional baseline correlations between the proteomic panel and IHF. Credit: Hepatology (2024). DOI: 10.1097 New findings from the DIRECT PLUS, 18-month-long lifestyle intervention trial underscores the potential to observe and signify alterations of MRI-assessed liver fat with proteomics…

Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Too much screen time impairs sleep for children and adolescents, and it’s largely the content on those screens that keeps them awake. But it remains less clear whether the light from those screens also impairs…

by Sheldon H. Jacobson and Janet A. Jokela, Chicago Tribune Will the threats associated with artificial intelligence be as bad as some fear? Or will AI be relatively benign? Could the answer be somewhere in between? Perspectives on AI abound.…

After a 2022–2023 season marked by a severe epidemic of bronchiolitis due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), in particular in terms of emergency department visits and hospital admissions, on September 15, 2023 the French Government launched a preventive immunization campaign,…

We all know fresh produce is good for us, but fruit, vegetables and herbs have a tendency to perish quickly if left uneaten. This is because even after harvesting, produce from living plants tends to continue its biological processes. This…

The way Black men see themselves after a firearm injury—whether as a survivor or victim—could change over time and have implications on their mental health, according to a Rutgers Health study. The study, published in the Journal of Urban Health,…

Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this process through a series of experiments—yielding…

Did you know babies can get depressed? Andria Goss, associate vice president of clinical and community services at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school for social work, early childhood education and child development programs, said people are astonished when they…

A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience. Watch the…

Orange peels may hold a key to better cardiovascular health, new University of Florida-led research shows. The findings are published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women and…

Biomimetic artificial islet model for glycemic control. Credit: Prof. Ling Li from Southeast University and Prof. Luoran Shang from Fudan University Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease characterized by pancreatic malfunction and poor production of insulin. Imagine your pancreas…

Backyard chickens are causing outbreaks of salmonella across the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. About 109 people in 29 states have gotten sick from salmonella after touching or caring for backyard poultry, the CDC…

Efficacy of voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent HIV infection among men who have sex with men. Credit: Annals of Internal Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.7326/M23-3317 A randomized controlled trial comprised of 247 men who have sex with men (MSM) found…

CCOC and ENOC resemble different phases of normal cyclic endometrium based on gene expression profile. Credit: Cancer Research (2023). DOI: 10.1158 Two types of endometriosis-related ovarian cancer arise from the same cells but likely at different stages of the menstrual…

Air and noise pollution exposure from pregnancy to 12 years of age in the avon longitudinal study of parents and children study sample. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001 A baby’s exposure to air pollution while in the…

Measles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of this year, the number of cases was about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before,…

Study design for integrated single-cell multiomic profiling of IPs. Credit: Nature Cancer (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43018-024-00768-3 A team of cancer researchers, led by the University of Houston, has discovered a new subset of T cells that may improve the outcome for…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016 A recent study has uncovered a troubling link between exposure to PM2.5 air pollution during pregnancy and the risk of low birth weight in newborns. This study highlights the…

Typical instance segmentation results obtained by the Cellpose algorithm at different time points and laser intensities ranging from 6% (4.6 mW) to 12.5% (9.9 mW). The white lettering in the upper left corner of the image represents the relative time…

Did you know: lightning can strike the same place multiple times? For example, the Empire State Building is reportedly struck by lightning roughly 23 times per year. Lightning struck a beach in the northern coastal town of Isabela during inclement…

The effects of high and low consumption of caffeine on the brain’s dopamine transporter binding in patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Annals of Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1002 Regular high caffeine consumption affects dopamine function in patients with Parkinson’s disease,…

Circadian clock disruption alters the immune landscape. a, Schematic depicting the workflow for scRNA-seq of live, CD45+ immune cells sorted from mouse small intestine isolated at ZT 4. b, UMAP of cell types clustered by single-cell transcriptional analysis (n?=?15,234 cells,…

Morphological descriptors of the left atria and its appendage (LAA). Top: (a) Maximal (D1???) and minimal (D2???) ostium diameter. (b) Ostium perimeter (po) and area (Ao), in orange and yellow, respectively. (c) LAA height (h???), distance to the apex (h?),…

Functional MRI brain maps of resting-state functional connectivity in representative age- and sex-matched participants. (A, B) Axial (top) and coronal (bottom) views show whole-brain connectivity, with the seed at the left (L) superior frontal region, in a 36-year-old female participant…

The scientists used AlphaFold 2 to simulate docking between a component of the hippo pathway and a cell membrane lipid. This image was included on the cover of Science Signaling. Credit: Brooke Emerling Within the family of cell membrane lipids…

Generation and growth properties of SLCLs from PBMCs of MS patients and healthy controls. Credit: Nature Microbiology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01699-6 The Wistar Institute’s Paul M. Lieberman, Ph.D., and lab team led by senior staff scientist and first author Samantha Soldan,…

Evaluation pipelines for correctness, consistency, and verifiability criteria in the XLingEval framework. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550 Georgia Tech researchers say non-English speakers shouldn’t rely on chatbots like ChatGPT to provide valuable health care advice. A team of researchers from…

The 77th World Health Assembly is being held at the Palace of Nations in Geneva. Countries aired stark differences Tuesday on where to go next in trying to strike a global agreement for handling future pandemics, after missing a deadline…

Molecular structure of silibinin. Credit: Oncotarget (2024). DOI: 10.18632 A new review paper titled “The importance of integrated therapies on cancer: Silibinin, an old and new molecule” has been published in Oncotarget. In this new review, researchers Elisa Roca, Giuseppe…

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among men, and being a father may put men at an even greater risk of poor heart health later in life, reports a new study from scientists at Northwestern University and Ann…

This figure shows the average deviation observed among participants and the average deviation of their body orientation from the sound emitted. Credit: iScience (2024). DOI: 10.1016 Picture this test: You stand with your eyes closed and arms stretched in front…

RNA-seq analysis of PPC1 prostate cancer cells. Four populations of PPC1 prostate cancer cells were analyzed from 6 independent RNA isolations. Differentially expressed genes are shown as heat map (A), Venn diagram (B) and volcano plots (C/E). Principal component analysis…

by KeAi Communications Co. Classification and treatment algorithm for nasal alar defect. Credit: Renpeng Zhou, Dongze Lyu, Chen Wang, Danru Wang The nose occupies the most prominent part of the face. It consists of several subunits, with the nasal alar…

by KeAi Communications Co. (A) No lymph nodes were detected in the left axillary region before surgery. (B) MRL detected two surviving lymph nodes (arrows) and an associated lymphatic network at the recipient site one year post-surgery. Credit: Jiang Z…

MRI visualization of hippocampal activation. Credit: UNIGE By exploring the effects of sport on memory, scientists at UNIGE have discovered compensatory mechanisms in the brains of young individuals at genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The benefits of physical activity…

WVU neuroscience researchers Valeriya Gritsenko and Rachel Taitano helped develop a 3D model to better treat neurological disorders. Credit: WVU / Davidson Chan A 3D model developed by West Virginia University neuroscientists shows how implantable stimulators—the kind used to treat…

A study in the Journal of Neurotrauma shows that in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) that need an external ventricular drain (EVD) insertion to control intracranial hypertension, early (<24-hours post-injury) insertion may result in better long-term…

Homology modeling of the recombinant OmpF-MPER protein. Upper (A) and lateral (B) views of the OmpF protein trimer from E. coli K-12 strain (based on 6wtz.pdb). Upper (C) and lateral (D) views of the predicted OmpF-MPER protein from EcN-MPER, homology…

The harmful combination of abdominal obesity and reduced muscle strength, also known as sarcopenic obesity, is already present in primary school children. This is shown by a new study among eight-year-olds, conducted at Karolinska Institutet. “Our findings show that sarcopenic…