A Better Understanding of “Muscle Synergies” Could Lead to Improved Stroke Rehabilitation
A newly published study from a team of researchers found that cortical damage altered the brain’s ability to activate muscles in groups, known as “muscle…
A newly published study from a team of researchers found that cortical damage altered the brain’s ability to activate muscles in groups, known as “muscle…
Cardiologists at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have completed their first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a new minimally invasive procedure that doesn’t require incisions…
Since July 16th, 16 people have died in Uganda from an Ebola outbreak. Contrary to previous outbreaks, a laboratory in Entebbe, near Uganda’s capital Kampala…
Using RNA-delivering nanoparticles that allow for rapid screening of new drug targets in mice, MIT researchers in collaboration with researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and…
Using 40 adults between the ages of 55 and 85, a newly published study from UCLA scientists found that a two-month program of mindfulness-based…
A team of neuroscientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered that changes in monocytes are a biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, possibly finding a new…
Six months after a warning was published in the medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine that gonorrhea was quickly becoming untreatable by the…
Until now, cancer researchers haven’t been able to track what errant cancer cells have been doing in patients’ bodies, ie forming tumors. Three different groups…
In an effort to better understand the function of inhibitory neurons in the brain and their role in neurological disorders, MIT neuroscientists developed a new…
A new study from MIT looks at what happens when the SIRT1 protein is missing from adipose tissue in mice, finding that SIRT1 protects from…
Contrary to the skin and liver, damaged hearts rarely heal themselves but there is new research that might raise hope for cell therapies. It’s been…
Using the humanized BLT mouse model, a new study is the first to visualize the behavior of HIV-infected human T cells within a lymph node…
Newly published research details how a team of scientists discovered ITD-1, a molecule with many therapeutic possibilities that can be used to generate unlimited numbers…
Data from a newly published study provides visual evidence that atmospheric particles separate into distinct chemical compositions during their life cycle and may play a…
Using exome sequencing, a team of scientists has discovered the human gene that causes a relatively rare but devastating type of early-onset blindness, providing an…
Published in the journal Science, a new study from Harvard researchers suggests that a newly discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone…
A newly published study from the University of North Carolina found that the drug vorinostat, a deacetylase inhibitor that is used to treat some types…
Published in early July in the journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a new study from UCLA scientists found that fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac,…