Medical News
Alzheimer 'tau' protein far surpasses amyloid in predicting toll on brain tissue
Science Daily - 1 Jan 2020 21:40
The results support researchers' growing recognition that tau drives brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease more directly than amyloid protein, and at the same time demonstrates the potential of recently developed tau...
Tumor DNA platform scopes out and classifies colorectal cancer
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2020 07:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new machine learning platform can identify patients with colorectal cancer and helps predict their disease severity and survival, according to a study involving sam...
Bone analysis suggests small T. rexes were not a separate genus; they were kids
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2020 07:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Settling a decades-long debate about whether small Tyrannosaurus rex specimens represent a separate genus or rather just "kids" of their kind, a new examination of th...
Delivering TB vaccine intravenously dramatically improves potency, study shows
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of Pittsburgh) Worldwide, more people die from tuberculosis than any other infectious disease, even though the vast majority were vaccinated. The vaccine just isn't that reliable. But a new Nature study finds...
Alzheimer 'tau' protein far surpasses amyloid in predicting toll on brain tissue
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of California - San Francisco) The results, published Jan. 1, 2020 in Science Translational Medicine, support researchers' growing recognition that tau drives brain degeneration in Alzheimer's disease more di...
Heart attack discovery could give hope to people not able to be treated
EurekAlert! - 1 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of Sydney) As a result of myocardial infarction (heart attack), scar tissue forms that negatively affects heart function. Although it has long been known that heart attack scar is weak and can ultimately lead...