Medical News

(Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT) Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia has led to the development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the effects of diseases such as retinitis pigment...

(Hackensack Meridian Health) The most strongly disease-relevant genetic variants can be hard to localize in widespread scanning of the genome -- but by zooming in on key genetic locations associated with DNA methylation ...

(Springer) Springer Healthcare IME has launched a new website to enable easier and more comprehensive access to its current and legacy educational programs. The new website features a full array of independent educationa...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine uncover how mutations in the human gene CLN6 can lead to a form of Batten disease.

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) New eye drops could prevent vision loss after retinal vein occlusion, a major cause of blindness for millions of adults, a study by Columbia University researchers has found.

(Binghamton University) Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York are using machine learning to track the coronavirus and predict where it might surge next.

(University of Toledo) A new book by a disability history scholar and Helen Keller expert at The University of Toledo tells the story of a white female physician -- for some time, the only female doctor in Madison, Wisc....

(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) A new study from researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells...

(University of Helsinki) Long-term morbidity as well as a lower level of education and employment rate are common among adults who underwent congenital heart surgery during childhood, regardless of the severity of the de...

(Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine ) New research from a team at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine reveals the central role of fat cells in the systemic oxidant stress observ...

(International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics) The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) and the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) present a free webinar on the...

(IOS Press) The SARS-CoV-19 virus initially has a limited capability to invade, attacking only one intracellular genetic target, the aryl hydrocarbon receptors (AhRs). Yet it leads to widely diverse clinical symptoms, su...

(Human Brain Project) The HBP presents its pioneering new Infrastructure EBRAINS to jumpstart a new era in neuroscience.The HBP is targeting brain networks, their role in consciousness, and artificial neural nets.Europea...

(NRG Oncology) The NRG Oncology Biospecimen Bank (NRG-BB) will be awarded six more years of funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to provide biospecimen banking support for the NCI National Clinical Trials Net...

(National University of Singapore) Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore have discovered a protein that drives the progression of esophageal cancer and liver c...

(American Cancer Society) The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced agreements with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Novartis, and Mylan to expand access to 20 life...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) have been implicated in causing excessive clotting in cancer patients. In this study, researchers show that the amount of NETs correlates with the sev...

(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) Findings from a new study published in Clinical Neurophysiology, involving a collaborative effort between Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and the Auditory Neuroscience L...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Researchers have designed a potential new treatment for one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy, according to a new study published today in the Proceedi...

(GIST(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)) In a new study, scientists at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology developed novel ligand molecules, which facilitate a catalytic reaction that generates useful ...

(University of Arizona) Researchers used a smartphone app to 'eavesdrop' on older adult conversations. They found that the older a person is, the less likely they are to share memories of past experiences.

(Simons Foundation) Some neuron types are particularly prone to Alzheimer's, and a new study suggests that those neurons are vulnerable because they regularly remodel. The work is the first to track the progression of Al...