A vaccine to fight antibiotic resistance
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments. It’s estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections killed more than 1 million people worldwide in 2019, according…
Artificial intelligence detects heart defects in newborns
Many children announce their arrival in the delivery room with a piercing cry. As a newborn automatically takes its first breath, the lungs inflate, the blood vessels in the lungs…
Tg Salutedomani Tv: AI and Parkinson’s disease, exercises after heart event, Covid and asthma in children
AI SPEEDS UP DRUG DESIGN FOR PARKINSON’S BY TEN-FOLD Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments. The researchers, from the University of…
Gene therapy is halting cancer. Can it work against brain tumors?
Grant of up to $11 million will fund a clinical trial at UCSF that uses a smarter new CAR-T guided by precision technology. A type of gene therapy called CAR-T…
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s by ten-fold
Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, designed and used an AI-based strategy to identify…
mRna, MD Anderson and CureVac enter strategic collaboration to develop novel cancer vaccines
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and CureVac N.V. today announced a co-development and licensing agreement to develop novel mRNA-based cancer vaccines. The collaboration creates strong synergies between…
Dramatic declines in global fertility rates. The Lancet
The world is approaching a low-fertility future. Although by 2100 more than 97% of countries and territories will have fertility rates below what is necessary to sustain population size over…
NIH researchers identify brain connections associated with ADHD in youth
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain’s frontal cortex and information processing centers…
Tools underestimate cardiovascular event risk in people with HIV #CROI2024
The elevated cardiovascular disease risk among people with HIV is even greater than predicted by a standard risk calculator in several groups, including Black people and cisgender women, according to…
Smoking cannabis associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke
Frequent cannabis smoking may significantly increase a person’s risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The study, published in…