Discovery may help explain why a drug used to treat the disease increases life expectancy — and whether it also improves brain function. Alberta, May 13, 2023.- University of Alberta researchers have identified a neurochemical marker related to the loss of motor function and communication breakdown between the primary motor cortexContinuar Leyendo
New, easy-to-design RNA-based sensor can detect and automatically respond to molecular triggers within cells. By Lindsay Brownell Boston, April 02, 2023.- More than twelve billion doses of mRNA vaccines have been administered globally since the start of the COVID pandemic, saving millions of lives. But RNA-based therapies for other diseasesContinuar Leyendo
New York, April 02, 2023.- One of the most terrifying aspects of the COVID pandemic has been its unpredictably severe impact on some children. While most infected kids have few or no symptoms, one in 10,000 fall suddenly and dramatically ill about a month after a mild infection, landing inContinuar Leyendo
Women who take extra vitamin D during their pregnancy are more likely to have a ‘natural’ delivery, according to Southampton research. Southampton, Feb 06, 2023.- The study, published in the Journal of Public Health, analysed results from the MAVIDOS trial, a multicentre, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D supplementationContinuar Leyendo
Researchers at the Spinoza Center have developed a method to look at the cerebellum in detail. Amsterdam, January 30, 2023.- The cerebellum, or our little brain, is mainly responsible for our motor skills. Furthermore, the structure is important for behavior and cognition. The cerebellum is a part of your brainContinuar Leyendo
By Heather Lindsey Weill Cornell Medicine Ithaca, NY, Jan 28, 2023.- The key to understanding how the most aggressive lymphomas arise and resist current therapies may lie in mutations that disrupt a critical natural selection process among antibody-producing B cells, according to a multi-institutional preclinical study led by Weill CornellContinuar Leyendo
Fractalkine appears to trigger repair of brain damage caused by the disease. Alberta, Jan 23, 2023.- A University of Alberta researcher is one step closer to demonstrating the potential of a brain molecule called fractalkine to halt and even reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. MultipleContinuar Leyendo
Portraying opposing views as equally valid stokes needless controversy, say researchers. Alberta, Jan 19, 2023.- When they launched their study, Timothy Caulfield and Marco Zenone could hardly have anticipated how the issue would capture headlines in Alberta. And yet they decided to examine how the common COVID-19 vaccination requirement for organContinuar Leyendo
Researchers find strong association between high levels of stigma, persistent symptoms, reduced physical function, and disability at work. Alberta, January 17, 2023.- High levels of stigma experienced by some COVID long-haulers are associated with more intense symptoms, reduced physical function and loss of employment due to disability, according to newlyContinuar Leyendo
Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking around cancer metastasis. Cambrigde, Dec 27, 2022.- The team based at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, found that blocking the activityContinuar Leyendo
