Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Grand Canyon National Park officials warned that E. coli bacteria was detected Friday in the water supply close to Phantom Ranch, the only lodging at the…
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Verapamil can preserve beta cell function in Type 1 diabetes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2012, University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Anath Shalev, M.D., reported that a decades-old blood pressure medication called verapamil completely reversed diabetes in animal models.…
New therapeutic approach for the treatment of neuroblastoma in young children
Lead author Sven Hagemann is handling cell cultures. Credit: University Medicine Halle Neuroblastomas are tumors of the nervous system. They can form in many places in the body and are…
Virtual reality study reveals link between sense of presence and cognitive abilities
Estimates of the structural equation model involving memory domain. Note BVMT brief visual memory test, Accomplishment VR = accomplishment in virtual reality, Error VR error in virtual reality. Dashed lines refer to nonsignificant path…
Young women report higher rates of forced sexual intercourse during pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The rate of forced intercourse in early adulthood rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a potential increase in unintended pregnancies and many other sexual, reproductive…
Scientists discover mutations in blood stem cells can exacerbate colon cancer
Compared with normal mice (top), colonoscopies detect more, and larger, tumors in the intestines of mice with clonal hematopoiesis (bottom). Credit: © 2023 Feng et al. Originally published in Journal…
You can save a cardiac arrest victim’s life even if an ambulance arrives in two minutes, research suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at…
Researcher discusses how lung macrophages evolve during metastatic growth of lung colonies in a mouse model of melanoma
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new editorial paper titled “A macrophage is a macrophage is a macrophage—in metastasis” has been published in Oncotarget. In this new editorial, researcher Thomas T.…
Baby neurons in adult brains are needed to maintain memory: Study
Structural and functional reorganization of the septohippocampal circuit in NG− mice. NG+ mice show acetylcholine release that supports working memory and cholinergic afferent organization within the septohippocampal projection. NG− mice…
Sedentary time in children linked with heart damage in young adulthood
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hours of inactivity during childhood could be setting the stage for heart attacks and strokes later in life, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023.…
