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.

A vital tool to study virus evolution in the test tube

Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge. The…

How liver metastases can be stopped

Research team investigates role of connective tissue cells in tumour environment. Every year, more than 220,000 people die of cancer in Germany – and the number is rising. About 90…

New nanoparticle design paves way for improved detection of tumors

Nano-sized particles have been engineered in a new way to improve detection of tumors within the body and in biopsy tissue, a research team in Sweden reports. The advance could…

Lighting Hydrogels Via Nanomaterials

Texas A&M associate professor Akhilesh Gaharwar and graduate student Patrick Lee are developing a new class of hydrogels that can leverage light for drug delivery and regenerative medicine treatments. Hydrogels…

Investigators in global study expanding genomic research of different ancestries

Paper in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide meta-analysis shows that research into different ancestries leads to better results and better care. Today The Lundquist Institute announced that its investigators contributed data from…

Main switch for hereditary muscle atrophy found

Research team investigates molecular mechanisms of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease. Motor nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain stem, which…

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