Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Improving diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension; A web-based COVID-19 assessment tool; Discovering pharmacological enzyme activators.
By targeting chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to a senescence marker, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have developed a CAR T cell that had beneficial effects in mouse models of both liver fibrosis and lung cancer.
The disconnect between the need for sleep and the possession of a brain is what prompted Dragana Rogulja, an assistant professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, and her team to take a look at multiple tissues in sleep-deprived flies and mice.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Three stages to COVID-19 brain damage identified; ApoE4’s role in Alzheimer’s blood vessels; Lifespan synaptic atlas gives developmental insights.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Sickle cell still greatly undiagnosed; Cardiac imaging for heart strain in infants with lung infections; C12orf49 is new lipid metabolism gene.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Hydrogen peroxide stimulates gold nanorods, paclitaxel, for cancer treatment; Oncometabolites mask DNA repair signals; Stress-induced mutagenesis leads to cancer drug resistance; Nanomotoring in bladder cancer.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Stroke protection effects like night and day; Blood pressure meds help range of patients when taken as prescribed; Test IDs undetected blood clots in COVID-19 patients.
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.
