Damaged human livers can repair themselves. Even livers badly scarred from excessive alcohol use, including alcohol-related hepatitis and cirrhosis, have the potential to improve with a treatment plan that includes medication, abstinence, and emotional support.
For anybody who’s struggled to pull together a grocery list or plan a week of family meals, the promise of assistance from artificial intelligence is downright appetizing.
A high proportion of women seem to undergo mammography screening every year, despite recommendations for biennial screening, according to a research letter published online March 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
According to a recent study from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, the impacts of everyday physical activity do not attenuate the accelerated hormonal bone loss that occurs during menopause. Effective bone-loading impacts are rare in everyday life. Future research should explore whether more targeted exercise can slow menopausal bone loss. The study suggests that impacts accumulated during everyday life are not sufficient to slow hormonal bone loss during menopause.
Last week, Queensland Health alerted the public about the risk of Australian bat lyssavirus, after a bat found near a school just north of Brisbane was given to a wildlife caregiver group.
New research from the Kennedy Institute has revealed how two important proteins, TBK1 and IKKε, play a crucial role in preventing premature cell death, which can lead to serious inflammation in the body. The findings are particularly relevant for people with a mutation in the TBK1 gene who often develop multiorgan inflammation caused by excessive cell death even in the absence of any infection.
Leveraging the power of AI and machine learning technologies, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine developed a more effective model for predicting how patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer will respond to chemotherapy. The model harnesses whole-slide tumor imaging data and gene expression analyses in a way that outperforms previous models using a single data type.
Music is central to human emotion and culture. Does our ability to enjoy music have a biological basis? A genetic twin study, published in Nature Communications, shows that music enjoyment is partly heritable. An international team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, uncovered genetic factors that influence the degree of music enjoyment, which were partly distinct from genes influencing general enjoyment of rewarding experiences or musical ability.
A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The first-in-human study, which imaged the COX-2 enzyme, offers a never-before-seen view of inflammation in the brain, opening the door for COX-2 PET imaging to be used in clinical and research settings for various brain disorders.
Scientists have found that sex is the leading factor explaining differences in hearing sensitivity, with women having significantly more sensitive hearing than men.