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.

Scientists develop low-cost chip to detect presence and quantity of COVID-19 antibodies

Light-sensing technology promises to make COVID-19 antibody testing cheaper, easier, faster and more accurate. Robust and widespread antibody testing has emerged as a key strategy in the fight against SARS-CoV-2,…

Gene test can predict risk of medications causing liver injury

Organoid-related discovery may also help drug makers screen potential pharmaceuticals. Scientists who were working on a way to determine the viability of batches of tiny liver organoids have discovered a…

The brain can induce diabetes remission in rodents, but how?

Fibroblast growth factor 1 effects on specific brain cell types, and on nets that enmesh neurons, inform how it restores blood sugar levels to normal in diabetic animals. In rodents…

Coaxing single stem cells into specialized cells

New gel deposition technique developed at UIC Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have developed a unique method for precisely controlling the deposition of hydrogel, which is made of…

Blood breakdown product commandeers important enzyme

The hemoglobin in the red blood cells ensures that our body cells receive sufficient oxygen. When the blood pigment is broken down, “heme” is produced, which in turn can influence…

Autophagy: the beginning of the end

Scientists reveal key steps in the formation of the recycling centers of the cell Autophagosomes first form as cup-shaped membranes in the cell, which then grow to engulf the cellular…

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