Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Personalized neuromodulation technique developed for obsessive-compulsive behavior; Improving pain research with new sensory neuron model; Tau end run prevents memory deficits, but not inflammation; Presenilin mutations affect neuronal stem cells.
Aging is not just wear and tear. It is an active process that is driven, at least in part, by chronic inflammation that is the result of immune cell dysfunction. Now, investigators at Stanford University have identified the metabolic switch underlying immune cell switch from function to dysfunction.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Increasing COVID-19 detection through secondary distribution of self-tests; COVID-19 and breath analysis; Saving lives from colorectal cancer; New classification scheme for glioblastomas.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Tau end run prevents memory deficits, but not inflammation; SCLC subtypes have specific vulnerabilities; Turning tsetse fly meal to poison for sleeping sickness control.
A genome-wide look at variants in RNA-binding proteins has revealed that such variants were disproportionately linked to the risk of multiple psychiatric disorders.
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have shown that optimal control of tuberculosis (TB) infection necessitated immune regulation as well as immune activation – and that PD-1 checkpoint blockers exacerbated TB infections in macaque monkeys by disrupting the balance between the two.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Heating up chemotherapy-laden nanoparticles to beat cancer; Mis-spliced RNAs in tumor cells trigger antiviral response; New approach to lung cancer screening promises savings.
Alzheimer’s disease can be divided into multiple subtypes based on gene expression patterns, investigators at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine reported in the Jan. 6, 2021, issue of Science Advances. The work, corresponding author Bin Zhang told BioWorld, is “the first major finding of subtypes in Alzheimer’s disease.”
