By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
ABOUT 15 other countries have expressed interest to join the Freshwater challenge which is currently being implemented in six nations, including Zambia.
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Without representative participation, clinical trials cannot accurately reflect how medical interventions impact patients—introducing bias and affecting research quality. This can result in reluctance to offer treatments to specific groups, contributing to health inequality.
The trend of increased social phobia in the modern era, especially among youth, has become a topic that researchers have been pursuing and tackling in the long term. Simultaneously, almost three years after the outbreak of COVID-19, the world is only now beginning to understand and analyze the profound impact this pandemic has had on the world.
When brain oxygenation is cut off for a prolonged period, the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex is quickly reduced to zero. But that’s not the end of the story.
For the first time ever, wireless millirobots navigated a narrow blood vessel both along and against arterial flow. Researchers from the University of Twente and Radboudumc inserted the screw-shaped robots in a detached aorta with kidneys where they controlled them using a robotically controlled rotating magnet. The researchers plan to further develop the technology to be able to remove blood clots.
Research scientists at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to further unlock the genetic secrets to Alzheimer’s disease.
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s, are a growing challenge in health care, affecting millions globally. They are characterized by a progressive decline in neural function and manifest in a range of debilitating symptoms. And as our lifespans increase, the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases increases with the aging global population.
While previous studies suggest Parkinson’s disease begins in the gut and spreads to the brain, how the process occurs has been elusive. Now, a pre-clinical study led by Duke Health researchers provides new evidence that bolsters the gut-brain connection.
An established transcription factor known for bone formation also supports specialized cells in the central nervous system to promote brain tissue stiffness, findings that could inform new therapeutics for neuronal regeneration, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Neuron.
Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-resistant cancers, with those diagnosed surviving for less than two years. In a new study published in npj Genomic Medicine, researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found that a largely understudied cell could offer new insight into how the aggressive, primary brain cancer is able to resist immunotherapy.
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