A Deep Dive on Inflammatory Pain Could Open Up New Solutions
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A new study reveals thousands of molecular interactions between pain-sensing neurons and different types of immune cells. (Images: Adobe Stock | Illustration: Sebastian Stankiewicz, Boston Children’s Hospital) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) su…
Vaccine Demonstrates Benefit in Delaying Cancer Relapse
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Vaccine demonstrates benefit in delaying cancer relapseData from the Phase I trial showed that the cancer vaccine offered an 86 percent reduction in the risk of relapse or death in pancreatic and colorectal cancers.A lymph node-targeted cancer vaccine has shown potential to prevent relapse of KRAS-…
Researchers Unveil Shared and Unique Brain Molecular Dysregulations in PTSD and Depression
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This illustration depicts a single cell RNA-sequencing study of PTSD, major depression and normal controls. In this plot, more than 363,000 nuclei are represented and categorized into eight broad cell types, allowing researche…
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia: Journey to a Treatment
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Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD (Photo: Michael Goderre, Boston Children's Hospital) In 2016, Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD, a neurology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, met two little girls with spasticity and decreased muscle tone in their legs, wh…
Ohio State Develops Searchable Database for Alzheimer's Research
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A searchable database is now ready to help study Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for up to 80% of cases. An estimated 6.7 million Americans who are age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's dementia today, according to …
Researchers Identify Protein Involved in Asthma Attacks
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Future research should focus on developing specific drugs to control the protein Piezo1 in humans, which might help control or head off allergic asthma attacks. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News A protein that shuts down immune cells in the lungs could be key to a new treatme…
The HILPDA Protein: A Potential Biomarker for New Treatment Options in Aggressive Kidney Cancer
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A new study from Karolinska Institutet discovered that blocking the MYC tumor protein in kidney cancer cells leads to an increase in fat droplets, which are associated with tumor growth. The study provides crucial knowledge for identifying new therapeutic targets for treating this aggressive form o…
UMass Chan Advances Research into Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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The study discovered similarities in immune system dysfunction as a potential biomarker among people living with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. A study led by UMass Chan Medical School viral immunologists Liisa Selin, MD, PhD, and Anna Gil, PhD, …
Scientists Unravel Life-Saving Effect of Dexamethasone in COVID-19
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dexamethasone is one of the most important drugs in the treatment of severe COVID-19, but patients respond very differently to the therapy. Researchers at the German …
Researchers Show How Neurochemicals Affect fMRI Readings
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A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, professor of neurology and associate director of UNC’s Biomedical Research Imaging Center, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD The brain is an incredibly complex and ac…