New film highlights ESRC research on online harms | Economic and Social Research Council
Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into the spread of online hate and its…
Prenatal use of certain medications can harm developing fetal brain
A review article by a University of Nebraska Medical Center/Child Health Research Institute research team underscores and describes…
Scientists link genetic spelling mistakes to sudden cardiac death
Scientists have found that the ‘sudden’ cardiac death condition related to high profile deaths or major medical episodes…
Rare disease drugmakers seek exclusion from Medicare pricing plans
WASHINGTON — Biotech companies are lobbying the Trump administration to exclude treatments for rare diseases from programs that…
Spousal dementia increases partner’s risk, researchers find
By Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNA If one partner in a married couple has dementia, their…
Preterm adults show varied outcomes across optimal, moderate, and low-functioning groups
A landmark 34-year study, co-led by University of Warwick, tracks very preterm babies from birth to middle adulthood…
Distributed neural networks make decoding cognition vastly harder than movement
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have made remarkable progress restoring movement and speech in people with paralysis. While brain-computer interface…
Study examines the link between blood type and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients
Do you know your blood type? It is important information that is used for blood transfusions, but few…
Oral drug avatrombopag reduces chemotherapy treatment delays, trial finds
In a phase 2 trial of patients with gastrointestinal cancers, avatrombopag helped 70% of those receiving chemotherapy to…
New tumor organoids strengthen precision oncology research
Significant advances have been made in the development of patient-derived tumor “organoids” for preclinical research, in two new…
Dissolving microneedles could improve photodynamic skin cancer treatment
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses a light-sensitive drug and a specific wavelength of light to destroy cancer cells. The…
Missing ancestry data in single-cell atlases threatens fair medicine
The single-cell “atlases” that are increasingly used to map the human body and as training data for artificial…