Pre-existing insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells, but not their progenitors, have been shown to contribute to new beta cells in the adult pancreas, according to a Chinese study led by scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Data flaws sink current AI models for COVID-19 diagnosis; Smartphone-based gaze may provide a scalable, digital biomarker of mental fatigue; AI developed to predict disease based on genetic mutations; High blood fats, sugars alter antigen processing.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Examining the value of lumbar spine surgery; Hip fracture outcomes worse during busy periods; Predicting the likelihood of bone fractures in older men.
LONDON – The alchemy of induced pluripotent cells has broken another barrier, delivering a model of the earliest preimplantation stages of human development, when fertilized eggs form a blastocyst.
A large-scale metabolomics study of blood samples from 11,000 people has identified common biological links among a number of chronic non-communicable diseases, opening up the possibility of countering multiple diseases simultaneously.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Rethinking dose fractionation in radiotherapy for prostate cancer; Immune system, treatment, in kidney cancer; Targeting membrane protein starves pancreatic tumors; Olive oil, not just for pasta anymore.
An international whole genome sequencing study has shown that diphtheria, an easily preventable but highly contagious potentially fatal upper respiratory tract infection by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is evolving antimicrobial resistance, which could lead to the loss of protection that has evolved with changes in the diphtheria toxin.
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