Scientists Find New Way To Clear Toxic Waste From Brain
Could aid efforts to find treatments for Alzheimer’s dementia and other diseases. A new druggable pathway that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s…
Could aid efforts to find treatments for Alzheimer’s dementia and other diseases. A new druggable pathway that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s…
Similar to itch, pleasant touch is transmitted by a specific neuropeptide and neural circuit. Researchers have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide — a…
Findings will encourage more data sharing, collaboration among researchers. As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to…
Washington University to lead national clinical trial investigating therapy. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly tumor types and notorious for its…
In mice, roseolovirus disrupts immune cells’ process of learning self-recognition. Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Type 1 diabetes are thought to arise when…
Shots trigger exceptional antibody response by activating key helper immune cells. The first two vaccines created with mRNA vaccine technology — the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna…
RNA molecule suppresses prostate tumor growth. Many patients with prostate cancer are treated with drugs that lower or block hormones that fuel tumor growth. While…
Alzheimer’s dementia predicted by brain amyloid levels, age. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when…
Like so many other good things in life, sleep is best in moderation. A multiyear study of older adults found that both short and long…
Study points to mechanism of post-viral lung damage; suggests targets of intervention. The deadliest time in a viral respiratory illness sometimes is actually after the…
Targets key part of the virus’ spike protein that changes little across variants. The virus that causes COVID-19 today is not the same as the…
Antibodies Elicited by COVID-19 Vaccination Effective Against Delta Variant Despite causing a surge in infections this summer that has resulted in thousands of hospitalizations and…
Study in mice, human blood samples, suggests HDL from the intestine may prevent liver inflammation. The body’s so-called good cholesterol maybe even better than we…
COVID-19 drugs, vaccines still effective against mutating virus. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells…
Effective against blood cancers, natural killer cells also may be effective against solid tumors. An immunotherapy based on supercharging the immune system’s natural killer cells…
Diet rich in sugar, fat damages immune cells in digestive tracts of mice. Eating a Western diet impairs the immune system in the gut in…
Study in mice and people offers new approach to investigating mental illnesses. The humble lab mouse has provided invaluable clues to understanding diseases ranging from…
Independent of cholesterol, gene variants raise risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure. High cholesterol is the most commonly understood cause of atherosclerosis, a…