Could brain parasites treat cognitive disorders?
Scientists have invented a new way to deliver treatment into the brain using a parasite.
The study – led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Tel Aviv University and an international team of...
1 in 4 patients in vegetative state can perform cognitive taskS
Around one in four patients with severe brain injury who cannot move or speak – because they are in a prolonged coma, vegetative or minimally conscious state – is still able to perform complex...
New blood test could be early warning for child diabetes, liver AND heart disease
A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart disease, say scientists.
A new study from...
Getting to the guts of immunity
Antioxidants and metabolism play an essential role in gut immunity, opening up new therapeutic strategies for gastrointestinal disorders. Researchers at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), led by Prof Dirk Brenner, explain the significance...
Why some people don’t get Covid
Scientists have discovered novel immune responses that help explain how some individuals avoid getting COVID-19.
Using single-cell sequencing, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University College London (UCL), Imperial College London, the Netherlands Cancer Institute...
Vibrating glove helps stroke patients control spasms
After a stroke, survivors often experience uncontrollable spasms that can twist their arms and hands into perpetual fists. The only treatments are expensive, frequently painful injections of botulinum toxin or oral medications so strong...
When do brains grow up?
Research shows mouse and primate brains mature at the same pace, writes Kristen Mally Dean.
A study from Argonne National Laboratory reveals that short-lived mice and longer-living primates develop brain synapses on the exact same...
Promising first human trial for ‘wonder’ material
A revolutionary nanomaterial with potential to tackle multiple global challenges could be developed further without acute risk to human health, research suggests.
Carefully controlled inhalation of a specific type of graphene – the world’s thinnest,...
UK firm plans state-of-the-art precision medicine centre in California
Working with local partners, BIOS Health, of Cambridge, will create a cutting-edge research and clinical trials center for neural digital therapies. The centre will be built around BIOS’s real-time insights into the nervous system,...
Improved radionuclide supply can transform nuclear medicine
Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) is a promising cancer treatment in nuclear medicine, but the supply of alpha-emitting radionuclides - which the treatment relies on - is very limited. A lack of alpha-emitting radionuclides in...
Growing microtumours in a dish hailed as ‘rapid way to identify tumour genes’
Researchers have identified a new way to screen genes that cause several different types of cancers to grow, identifying particularly promising targets for precision oncology in oral and esophageal squamous cancers.
The study, published in...
Key gene blocks the ‘spillover’ of avian flu to humans
Understanding the genetic make-up of currently circulating avian flu strains may offer one of the best lines of defence against widespread human transmission.
This is according to new research which has found a key human...
Depression up, Covid-19 down in disease study list
Depression is now one of the top five most studied disease areas in clinical development, according to new global analysis by Phesi.
The mid-year analysis of all this year’s trials to date reveals that Covid-19...
New ‘Clinical Trial in a Dish’ for Alzheimer’s Disease
An extensive panel of consented patient samples and iPSC technology will advance AD drug development and patient stratification.
Pluripotent stem cell technology provider for drug discovery, Axol Bioscience Ltd (Axol), has signed an exclusive agreement...
1 in 6 children ‘neurodivergent’ as autism numbers quadruple
The number of children diagnosed with Attention-deficit /hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders classifying them as ‘neurodivergent’, has rocketed in both the UK and US.
“Now, one in six children in the US...
Antibiotic resistance widespread among bacteria
Genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics are much more widespread in our environment than previously known.
A study, from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, shows that bacteria in...