Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Wireless chip developed to improve brain research; Diabetes increases damage around amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s; Smartphone keystrokes show promise in monitoring progression of MS.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Imaging methods reveal underlying cause of unexplained heart attack; Questionnaire predicts people at high risk for heart disease; Bias skews tally on imaging diagnostic test accuracy studies.
A study by Australian microbiologists at Queensland, Melbourne and Griffiths universities has shown that the candidate neurodegenerative disease drug PBT-2, combined with a polymyxin antibiotic, induced potent antimicrobial activity against polymyxin-resistant gram-negative pathogens.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Exoskeleton-assisted walking improves mobility in individuals with spinal cord injury; Skoltech scientists developed a novel bone implant manufacturing method; Novel technique 'stuns' arthritis pain in shoulder and hip; New research reveals potential treatment to delay and manage osteoarthritis.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Prolonged androgen-deprivation therapy confirmed as hit on CV health; Nanoparticle fights pancreatic cancer’s chemo resistance; Linking two liver cancer culprits; Reversal of pumping direction is reversal of fortune for tumor cells; Active surveillance backed for Black men with prostate cancer.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco have developed a method to diagnose any known pathogen from any body fluid within a day – or, depending on the sequencing method, within a few hours. For an unknown pathogen, the method spits out its nearest known relative.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Reversal of pumping direction is reversal of fortune for tumor cells; Cholesterol drug affects checkpoint blockade via MHC1; Heart development protein has role in adult immunity.
Chinese scientists have been the first to show that combining anti-cancer poly [ADP-ribose] polymerase (PARP) inhibitors with radiotherapy may be effective for treating ependymoma CNS tumors expressing elevated levels of the protein chromosome X open reading frame 67 (CXorf67).