First-of-its-kind study finds gene variant linked to the symptom in menopausal women
Most women experience hot flashes and night sweats either before or during menopause, but a significant minority don’t have these symptoms. Could our genes be a factor in determining which women get hot flashes? (more…)
Tübinger Wissenschaftler setzen erstmals hirngesteuertes Hand-Exoskelett ein, um gelähmte Hand im Alltag wieder benutzbar zu machen
Einem internationalen Wissenschaftlerteam unter Führung der Universität Tübingen ist es erstmals gelungen, mit technischen Mitteln die Handfunktion Querschnittsgelähmter im Alltag fast vollständig wiederherzustellen: Mit Hilfe eines hirngesteuerten Hand-Exoskeletts, also einer Art tragbaren Roboters, konnten sechs Probanden ihre gelähmte Hand in Alltagssituationen einsetzen. Sie waren zum Beispiel in der Lage, selbstständig in einem Restaurant zu essen und zu trinken. (more…)
Researchers at Yale and Stanford have provided the most conclusive evidence to date that a rheumatoid arthritis drug can also be used to grow hair on patients with a disease that causes disfiguring hair loss. (more…)
Ein internationales Forscherteam unter Beteiligung der Universität Tübingen untersucht die genetische Herkunft des Syphiliserregers, der sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten wieder ausgebreitet hat
Über die ersten Ausbrüche der Syphilis in Europa wurde 1495 im Krieg von Neapel berichtet. Der Erreger, ein Bakterium mit dem Namen Treponema pallidum, breitete sich danach schnell auf weitere Kontinente aus. Die meist über sexuelle Kontakte übertragene Syphilis wurde eine der gefürchtetsten Infektionskrankheiten in der Menschheitsgeschichte. (more…)
Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets — and then stay there — could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers. (more…)
When the holidays descend upon us, we find ourselves simultaneously excited and bracing for the stress that is rushing toward us. As children, we only had to look forward to all the magic and festivities that awaited. As adults, we have become the facilitators of all of those festivities, working too hard to get them right. (more…)
UCLA scientists and colleagues identify structure of a molecule that kills mosquitoes carrying malaria and West Nile
Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes. The findings move the scientific world one step closer to genetically engineering a toxin that would be lethal to species that carry dengue fever and the Zika virus. (more…)
On the night of June 23, it was all hands on deck in the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital. They were running out of resuscitation rooms and breathing tubes. Patients were put in overflow rooms, and doctors and nurses came from other departments to keep up with the flood of patients. The pace was unrelenting—beginning at 4 p.m. and lasting for six hours. The emergency staff had never seen anything like this before. (more…)
