A Sino-U.S. study has shown that the increased expression of the small secreted glycoprotein follistatin-like 1 is critical in the pathogenesis of multiple fibrotic and systemic autoimmune diseases, the authors reported in the January 6, 2021, print edition of MolecularTherapy after earlier publication online.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Focused ultrasound shows promise for Parkinson’s disease; Blood test developed for Alzheimer’s prognosis in symptom-free patients; Bedside EEG test predicts recovery in unresponsive brain injury patients.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Retinal imaging may detect Parkinson’s disease; Biomarkers may differentiate psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis; ApoE multitasks for regulating brain lipids.
Researchers at INSERM have gained new insights into the basic biology of mesenchymal stem cell function, and how platelets improved that function in an animal model of wound healing.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Discovery of aging mechanism for hematopoietic stem cells; Long-term study finds dozens of new genetic markers associated with lifetime bone growth; Living alone may increase risk of dying after hip fracture; Bone fracture risk may increase when critical enzymatic processes decline.
Using an adenine base editor, researchers at the U.S. NIH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Harvard University have succeeded in treating the premature aging syndrome Hutchinson-Guilford progeria syndrome (progeria) in mice, extending the animals’ lifespan and preventing much of the vascular damage that is typically the cause of death in children with progeria.
It has been a year since Wuhan health authorities first issued a bulletin about a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown cause, first bringing what would become the COVID-19 pandemic to the attention of the World Health Organization. Now, a mutation that significantly increases SARS-CoV-2’s transmissibility has been detected in the U.S.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Cellular ‘backpack’ boosts activity of macrophages against cancer; Hardware + software = slide-free histology; Researchers wary of social media for clinical trial recruitment; Peptides team up with nanowires to detect cancer exosomes.
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