Day July 11, 2024

Weekly hazard ratio for cerebral palsy per IQR increase in prenatal weekly ambient fine particulate matter with a diameter 2.5 ?m or smaller (PM2.5) concentration among all full term births. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001 A team of…

The parasubthalamic neurons sensitive to binge eating, shown in red, reduce the eagerness of mice to start eating. Credit: Scripps Research Do you grab a fork and take a first bite of cake, or say no and walk away? Our…

Immunostaining images showing differential PK sensitivity of tau aggregates in brain homogenates from IgG-ms- and TTCM2-ms–treated mice. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1126 A multi-institutional team of neuroscientists has developed a nasal therapy that cleared the brains of Alzheimer’s…

Synthetic extremophiles remain effective microbial therapeutics despite extreme temperature and radiation exposure. Credit: Nature Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01937-6 A team of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created formulations that allow microbial therapeutics, including those used to treat gastrointestinal…

An MRI with increased signal in the posterior part of the internal capsule which can be tracked to the motor cortex consistent with the diagnosis of ALS. Credit: Frank Gaillard/Wikipedia Immune system dysregulation and elevated inflammation contribute to the development…

Cross-sectional CT images showing a metastatic tumor in the left lung of a patient (top image) and no tumor following treatment (bottom image). Credit: NCI Early findings from a small clinical trial provide evidence that a new cellular immunotherapy approach…

Image of Piezo2 gene expression (shown in magenta) in lumbar dorsal root ganglion sections from mice. Credit: Lewin Lab of the Max Delbrück Center A team of researchers led by Oscar Sánchez-Carranza in Professor Gary Lewin’s lab at the Max…

Credit: Los Muertos Crew from Pexels New research from the University of Alberta offers the hope of better long-term outcomes for survivors of childhood cancer—and the path to those better outcomes is exercise. Two undergraduate honors students in the Faculty…

Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging’s report on financial stress and other financial concerns among older adults. Credit: Emily Smith—University of Michigan Inflation rates may have cooled off recently, but a new poll shows many older adults…

Imagine the shock of your baby being born with a swollen brain, blindness and debilitating seizures. Now imagine learning that these devastating conditions could have been prevented if you took a simple test for the common parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma…

Longitudinal analyses of peripheral blood immune cell populations. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45798-8 A clinical trial has shown that a new drug combination utilized before surgery completely eliminated or shrunk melanoma tumors in 70% of trial participants. The phase…

Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Dietary lipids play an essential role in regulating the function of the gut microbiota and gastrointestinal tract, and these luminal interactions…

Credit: Mayo Clinic You may have heard about a recent first at Mayo Clinic, a total larynx transplant. What you may not have heard was what precipitated that transplant. The patient developed a rare form of cancer called laryngeal chondrosarcoma.…

(A) Schematic representation of the experimental procedure. Created with BioRender.com. (B) Representative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images illustrating the connectivity studied. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126 The Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory Lab, at the Institut de Neurociències…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Certain state gun laws are associated with decreased suicide rates for children under age 18, but the laws have little influence on homicide rates, according to a study from Duke Health researchers examining the relationship…

A team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, and Center Nacional d’Anàlisi Genòmica and Center for Genomic Regulation report discovering fossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years…

Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one seventh the amount of nicotine as children who are exposed to indoor smoking, but more than those exposed to neither, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study,…

A new study has found that an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agent enhances patient care after cataract surgery. The AI-powered automated voice system, called Dora, is able to call patients to ask them questions, understand their answers and accurately identify…

Credit: Cell Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1016 A recent study conducted by researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) reveals insights into the functioning of the visual cortex of macaques. The findings, published in Cell Reports, demonstrate that the primary visual cortex, also…

A study published in the journal Hypertension points to the potential long-term consequences of preeclampsia — specifically, accelerated aging in women who have had this condition. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication marked by high blood pressure, which can affect health…

In Rhode Island, over one in four emergency department (ED) patients at high risk of overdose has a non-fatal opioid overdose in the 18 months after discharge. A parallel, two-arm, randomized controlled trial conducted of over 600 ED patients at…

In this Aug. 10, 2019 file photo, a sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The bacteria which causes the disease is transmitted through the…

Credit: Cell Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1016 The hippocampus is a crucial region in the brain of mammals, which has been predominantly linked to the formation of memories. The retrieval of memories stored in the hippocampus at a later stage relies…

There were 70,688 violent deaths that occurred in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2021, more than half of which were suicides, according to research published in the July 11 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…