Credit: CC0 Public Domain Why might more time in the sun boost a person’s mood? A new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of…
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Base editing, a new form of gene therapy, leaves patient feeling ‘more than fine’
Credit: National Institutes of Health Though he doesn’t remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of…
USDA orders testing of milk supply for presence of bird flu virus
Faced with rising cases of bird flu virus being detected in raw milk in California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced it would mandate testing for the…
MRI could be key to understanding the impact a gluten free diet has on people with celiac disease
Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Experts have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to better understand the impact a gluten free diet has on people with celiac disease, which could be…
Researchers examine why people remember certain things and not others
Holistic view of hierarchical processing in episodic memory. A) Proposed hierarchy of episodic memory content processing from neocortex to hippocampus, incorporating the why as context. Adapted and expanded from Eichenbaum…
A tapeworm-inspired, tissue-anchoring mechanism for medical devices
Flow chart illustrating the mechanism of action of the tapeworm-inspired tissue anchoring mechanism. Upon contact with a tissue surface (in this case, the intestinal lining), the small protruding trigger posts…
US life expectancy gains expected to stall by 2050 as health progress fails to keep pace with other countries
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. is failing to keep pace with dozens of countries around the world due to the steady decline of the nation’s health progress, according to…
Why children play the same game or watch the same show over (and over) again
Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s a familiar feeling for many parents. No matter what you suggest, your pre-schooler just wants to watch that episode of Bluey again, never mind that…
Abnormal prenatal blood test results could indicate hidden maternal cancers
Credit: Josh Willink from Pexels Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found previously undetected cancers in 48.6% of pregnant people who had abnormal results for prenatal cell-free DNA…
Evaluating long-term survival and cardiac efficacy of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Fibrotic remodeling in skeletal muscle and heart of DMDMDX rats and impact of delandistrogene moxeparvovec treatment. A recent study published in the journal Human Gene Therapy evaluated the long-term survival…
