Brain Imaging: Advance Aims for Epilepsy’s Hidden Hot Spots
Caption: GluCEST imaging of the brain of a person with drug-resistant epilepsy, showing the hippocampi (highlighted) with signal for high glutamate (red).Credit: Reddy Lab, University of Pennsylvania...
View ArticleTreating Zika Infection: Repurposed Drugs Show Promise
Caption: An NCATS researcher dispenses Zika virus into trays for compound screening in a lab using procedures that follow strict biosafety standards.Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational...
View ArticleRare Disease Mystery: Nodding Syndrome May Be Linked to Parasitic Worm
Caption: Village in the East Africa nation of UgandaCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In the early 1960s, reports began to surface that some children living in remote villages in East...
View ArticleHas an Alternative to Table Sugar Contributed to the C. Diff. Epidemic?
Thinkstock/piyaphat50 Most of us know how hard it is to resist the creamy sweetness of ice cream. But it might surprise you to learn that, over the past 15 years or so, some makers of ice cream and...
View ArticleDistinctive Brain ‘Subnetwork’ Tied to Feeling Blue
Credit: :iStock/kieferpix Experiencing a range of emotions is a normal part of human life, but much remains to be discovered about the neuroscience of mood. In a step toward unraveling some of those...
View ArticleTeaming Magnetic Bacteria with Nanoparticles for Better Drug Delivery
Nanoparticles hold great promise for delivering next-generation therapeutics, including those based on CRISPR gene editing tools. The challenge is how to guide these tiny particles through the...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Bacterial Trap for Sepsis
Credit: Kandace Gollomp, MD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA Spiders spin webs to catch insects for dinner. It turns out certain human immune cells, called neutrophils, do something...
View ArticleCan Autoimmune Antibodies Explain Blood Clots in COVID-19?
Caption: Illustration showing a blood vessel with a platelet clot (yellow). Red blood cells (red), neutrophils (purple), and Y-shaped antibodies called aPL (white) circulate through the vessel....
View ArticleTapping Into The Brain’s Primary Motor Cortex
If you’re like me, you might catch yourself during the day in front of a computer screen mindlessly tapping your fingers. (I always check first to be sure my mute button is on!) But all that tapping...
View ArticleA Look Back at Science’s 2022 Breakthroughs
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Shutterstock/tobe24, Midjourney Inc. Happy New Year! I hope everyone finished 2022 with...
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