The new health care practice of ‘hotspotting’ — in which providers identify very high-cost patients and attempt to reduce their…
New study reveals the origin of complex malaria infections
New technology employing single cell genome sequencing of the parasite that causes malaria has yielded some surprising results and helps…
Losing a night of sleep may increase blood levels of Alzheimer’s biomarker
A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had…
Pathways that extend lifespan by 500% identified
Scientists have identified synergistic cellular pathways for longevity that amplify lifespan fivefold in C. elegans, a nematode worm used as…
New vaccines to protect infants against infections
A new study puts researchers within closer reach of vaccines that can protect infants against infections by overcoming a mother’s…
How US sewage plants can remove medicines from wastewater
A study of seven wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern United States points to two treatment methods — granular activated…
Could pancreatitis be a stress hormone deficiency?
Researchers find that humans and mice with pancreatitis are deficient in a stress hormone called FGF21.
Researchers solve protein structure associated with inherited retinal diseases
Researchers have reported the first structural model for a key enzyme, and its activating protein, that can play a role…
Neurons’ energy organelle protected from damage linked to ALS, Alzheimer’s
Mitochondrial damage is increasingly recognized as a key factor underlying neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. A new screening…
Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
Using a genomics strain-tracking bioinformatics tool, researchers investigated whether shared bacterial strains remain stable and resilient to changes in diet…