From memory formation to waste clearance, sleep, Dragana Rogulja said, is thought of as “of the brain, by the brain, for the brain.” However, sleep may be necessary for the brain, but the brain is not necessary for sleep.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Healthspan, lifespan affected differently by caloric restriction; Stroke protection effects like night and day; Oncometabolites mask DNA repair signals; Antiviral vaccine protects against myocarditis, diabetes; C12orf49 is new lipid metabolism gene; Base editing gives temporary hearing fix; Simultaneous dual base editing; Nuclear quality control by chaperones; Stress-induced mutagenesis leads to cancer drug resistance.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Improving diagnosis of prostate cancer; Assay system identifies mitochondria-targeting drugs for PD; Ovarian organoids implicate oviducts.
Two major papers on repurposed drugs for COVID-19 by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital face intense skepticism from the research community, prompting the editorial boards of TheNew England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet to publish Expressions of Concern on the validity of the underlying data. Such expressions are often the first step toward an outright retraction.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Hydrogen plus gemcitabine may prove efficacious in treatment of bladder cancer; Tumor types have distinct microbiomes; Kinase helps prepare pre-metastatic niche; EZH2 has dual role; Sulfur-for-oxygen switch enables photosensitizers for cancer therapy.
In emergency situations, broad-spectrum antibiotics have their place. But their indiscriminate use has led to a resistance crisis that already kills tens of thousands of people annually in the U.S. alone.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: iPSC microtissue gives clues to heart disease; Two paths for helping patients with heart stents; COVID-19 hits stroke patients.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Double-contrast probe detects tiny tumors on MRI, Identifying risk of ischemic stroke, T cell aging induces broader senescence, ALK is a candidate thinness gene.
Variants in the APOE gene are the strongest genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Now, researchers at Rockefeller University have demonstrated that APOE variants also affected the risk of progression and metastasis as well as the response to immunotherapy, in melanoma.
