Health and Medicine

This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.

Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.

Secretomics uncovers blood-brain barrier mystery

Researchers identify novel gelatinase substrates involved in astroglial barrier function: In neuroinflammation, immune cells such as leukocytes cross the blood-brain barrier. One key to this is the gelatinases matrix metalloproteinase…

Ear today, gone tomorrow?

A new discovery in a cause of inner-ear bone loss. The researchers from Osaka University showed how bone erosion caused by cholesteatoma occurs. This study showed that a subset of…

Deadly fungus beaten with new type of treatment

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Research Science (CSRS) and the University of Toronto have discovered a new way to attack fungal infections. The key is to block fungi…

Gene therapy treats chronic pain by dialing down sodium

Scientists identified the region where a protein regulates sodium ion channels, inserting the channel’s genetic material into a virus to alleviate pain in cell and animal studies. Researchers at NYU…

New muscle therapy gets fast-track boost

To help bring therapies for rare muscle diseases in children to market sooner, the Berlin-based start-up MyoPax, a spin-off from the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has…

Scientific breakthrough harnesses mRNA technology to develop powerful malaria vaccine

A new mRNA vaccine targeting immune cells in the liver could be the key to tackling malaria, a disease that causes over half a million deaths each year according to…

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