Gene Signature Could Lead To A New Way Of Diagnosing Lyme
February 12, 2024 10:35 am | by UCSF | News | CommentsResearchers may have found a new way to diagnose Lyme disease, based on a distinctive gene “signature” they discovered in white blood cells of patients infected with the tick-borne bacteria.
E-cigarettes May Change Immune Response in Lungs
February 12, 2024 10:27 am | by UNC | News | CommentsSmoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person’s risk for a host of diseases, and there’s an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke full of known carcinogens. New findings suggest the story is not that simple.
Pinpointing Loneliness in the Brain
February 12, 2024 10:20 am | by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | News | CommentsNeuroscientists have identified a brain region that represents feelings of loneliness. This cluster of cells, located near the back of the brain in an area called the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), is necessary for generating the increased sociability that normally occurs after a period of social isolation, the researchers found in a study of mice.
Study: Neanderthal DNA May Influence Modern Depression Risk
February 12, 2024 9:46 am | by Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsA new study says a person's risk of becoming depressed or hooked on smoking may be influenced by DNA inherited from Neanderthals.
New Device Could Enable Brain Control of Exoskeletons
February 12, 2024 9:01 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsThe device that may someday give people with spinal cord injuries the ability to walk just by thinking, is the size of a matchstick and can be implanted into a blood vessel in the brain without the need for invasive surgery.
Light Source Lamps for Instrumentation
February 11, 2024 12:11 pm | Jm Science, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsJM Science offers a large selection of Light Source Lamps for a wide range of instruments. The atomic absorption lamps (AA Lamps) for spectroscopy instrumentation are priced for budget-conscience labs where AA spectroscopy instrumentation is used.
Brazil and US University Reach Deal on Zika Vaccine
February 11, 2024 12:07 pm | by Joshua Goodman, Associated Press | News | CommentsBrazil has signed an agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus, adding the goal is for the vaccine to be ready for clinical testing within 12 months.
Scientists Find Leukemia's Surroundings Key to its Growth
February 11, 2024 12:02 pm | by University of Texas at Austin | News | CommentsResearchers have discovered that a type of cancer found primarily in children can grow only when signaled to do so by other nearby cells that are noncancerous.
Chemical Cages: New Technique Advances Synthetic Biology
February 11, 2024 11:32 am | by Arizona State University | News | CommentsLiving systems rely on a dizzying variety of chemical reactions essential to development and survival. Most of these involve a specialized class of protein molecules--the enzymes. In a new study, scientists presents clever means of localizing and confining enzymes and the substrate molecules they bind with, speeding up reactions essential for life processes.
Dementia Risk Varies Significantly Among Racial And Ethnic Groups, Study Finds
February 11, 2024 10:30 am | by UCSF | News | CommentsIn the largest and longest study thus far of ethnic disparities in dementia risk, researchers compared six ethnic and racial groups within the same geographic population and found significant variation in dementia incidence among them.
Sneezes, Frame by Frame
February 11, 2024 10:22 am | by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | News | CommentsNew high-speed videos captured by researchers show that as a person sneezes, they launch a sheet of fluid that balloons, then breaks apart in long filaments that destabilize, and finally disperses as a spray of droplets, similar to paint that is flung through the air.
Nobel Medicine Prize Panel Official Resigns Over Inquiry
February 11, 2024 10:14 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe secretary-general of the Swedish panel that awards the Nobel medicine prize has resigned because of an investigation into disputed stem-cell scientist Paolo Macchiarini.
Poor Fitness May Affect Brain Volume Decades Later
February 11, 2024 9:44 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | News | CommentsMore evidence for the benefits of physical fitness comes to light in a new Neurology study that found an association between lack of exercise in mid-life and smaller brain size 20 years later.
Advanced Tri-layer Tubing
February 10, 2024 10:35 am | Product Releases | CommentsPutnam Plastics Corporation, a leader in advanced extrusions and components for minimally invasive medical devices, has developed an advanced tri-layer tubing technology that significantly improves tensile and burst strength, while reducing elongation.
Computational Tools Could Change the Way Sleep Apnea is Treated
February 10, 2024 10:30 am | by UCLA | News | CommentsImagine that before performing surgery, doctors could consult software that would determine the actual effectiveness of the procedure before even lifting a scalpel. With the use of a computational model of the human airway being developed, people who suffer from sleep apnea may one day benefit from such a scenario.
