Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Circulating progesterone and breast cancer risk; Llamas aid in fight against COVID-19; Transcriptomic insights into Parkinson’s disease.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Scientists regenerate neurons in mice with spinal cord injury and optic nerve damage; Trial questions benefits of organic nitrates for bone health; Mind-controlled arm prostheses that 'feel' are now a part of everyday life; Biomaterial immune control discoveries could reduce implant rejection.
A multi-institutional group led by the University of California at San Francisco’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) has identified more than 200 host proteins that interacted with SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins during infection, creating “a blueprint of how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells.”
The climate crisis in the time of COVID-19 illustrates the difference between the important and the urgent. There is, of course, no alternative to focusing on the current pandemic. But at the same time, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has not changed the fact that the climate crisis is a coming wave whose health consequences will ultimately dwarf those of any single infectious agent.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Infectious disease diagnoses often foreshadow cancer diagnoses; Polymerase k and drug resistance; Microcytosis link to cancer confirmed; Researchers describe new triple threat to cancer.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Older siblings’ example turns stem cells into heart cells; Study: High blood pressure meds safe for patients, even during COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 spurs fast-tracking of heart, brain health research.
The climate crisis in the time of COVID-19 illustrates the difference between the important and the urgent. There is, of course, no alternative to focusing on the current pandemic. But at the same time, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has not changed the fact that the climate crisis is a coming wave whose health consequences will ultimately dwarf those of any single infectious agent.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Neutralizing RSV; Insulin cuts both ways in vasculature; Transcriptomic insights into Parkinson’s disease; Restoring synaptic transmission for rare neurodevelopmental disease; Polymerase k and drug resistance; Sphingolipids accumulate in neurodegeneration; How does innate immunity remember? Not via polycomb; Antibiotics affect oxycodone effects; Cabo as next annual shot?
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Light-based stimulation relieves symptoms of Parkinson's, Implant-free optogenetics minimizes brain damage during neuronal stimulation, Persistent and worsening insomnia may predict persistent depression in older adults.
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