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.

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…

Scientists use two powerful immunotherapies to eradicate solid tumors

City of Hope scientists have combined two potent immunotherapies — an oncolytic virus and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy — to target and eradicate solid tumors that are…

How mechanical forces nudge tumors toward malignancy

All cancers are the result of cells that have gone haywire, multiplying out of control and expanding beyond their normal constraints. But not all tumors are the same: for reasons…

Scent-sensing cells have a better way to fight influenza

Olfactory neurons can fight and clear influenza B without being killed. Influenza researchers have long focused most of their efforts on the epithelial cells lining the lungs because these are…

Detecting small amounts of virus in early infections

Device could preconcentrate samples from COVID-19 patients in asymptomatic stages of the disease, providing early detection capability. Diagnostic devices that are used at home or in doctors’ offices are often…

From Virtual to Reality! Virtual Training Improves Physical and Cognitive Functions

Researchers at the Smart-Aging Research Center (IDAC) at Tohoku University have developed an innovative training protocol that, utilizing immersive virtual reality (IVR), leads to real physical and cognitive benefits. We…

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