A study by researchers at Nanjing University has demonstrated that in mice, depression-like phenotypes induced by paternal stress can be inherited by the offspring through a causal role of microRNAs in the father's sperm.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: CD161 identified as impediment to immune response in diffuse glioma; iPSCs give sneak preview of AML; A role for chloroquine in cancer; Fecal transplant may aid in response to immunotherapy in melanoma.
Researchers at Hannover Medical School have developed an organoid that mimicked the early codevelopment of the heart with liver, lung and blood vessels.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Understanding ‘brain fog’ in people with COVID-19; AD diagnostics could become more accessible; Careful with that BBB.
A study led by scientists at the Korean Research Institute of BioScience and Biotechnology in Daejeon is the first to demonstrate that Dilp8/INSL3-Lgr3/8-NUCB, neuropeptide y signaling may be a potential therapeutic target in cancer anorexia and cachexia, which is associated with increased cancer mortality.
As of the end of January, SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrably infected more than 100 million individuals globally. It has killed more than 2 million. And the long-term sequelae of COVID infections – to say nothing of the health consequences of grief, social isolation and widespread economic distress – are still unfolding and will be for years to come.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Prostate cancer risk scores; Predicting phase separation; iPSCs give sneak preview of AML.
Twenty years to the month after the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome, the Human Genome Project and follow-on projects like The Cancer Genome Atlas are underpinning advances in precision medicine.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Hot nano-chisel used to create artificial bones in a Petri dish; A 'skeletal age' calculator to predict bone fracture risk; Fetal surgery for spina bifida leads to better mobility in school-age children.
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