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A team of biomedical researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Hebrew University and University College London has found evidence of an association between fibromyalgia-type symptoms and migration of neutrophils into sensory ganglia. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group explored possible causes of fibromyalgia in mouse experiments.

People who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 had low levels of social trust, weak attachments to the rule of law, and were less willing to honor collective commitments to the greater good, according to Cornell research published April 22 in npj Vaccines.

Humans are innately able to separate information regarding others in their social circle depending on their needs and what they are looking for. For instance, they might contact a friend who is a lawyer if they need advice with a legal matter or contact an empathetic friend if they need emotional support on a personal matter.

At the end of 2022, the federal government eliminated the “X waiver,” a major hurdle to providing addiction treatment, but progress needs to be continued, according to the authors of a new Perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Centralized laboratory testing has been a standard tool for diagnosing common illnesses. However, laboratory-based testing generally requires expensive medical equipment and involves complex operation protocols that can only be completed within a medical facility by well-trained personnel. These requirements elongate testing time and prevent the widespread use of diagnostics in remote and resource-limited regions due to limited access to centralized labs. To address some of these limitations, point-of-care (POC) sensors were developed as alternative diagnostics tools with simple and rapid operation, compact size, and low cost.

A multi-institutional study on dengue led by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) shows how the virus causing the disease has evolved dramatically over the last few decades in the Indian subcontinent.

What if your physician could predict if—or when—you might experience a heart attack, cardiac arrest or another heart-related problem?

No one has ever performed a bladder transplant in humans. But that might soon change.

Family physicians who provided more virtual care did not have more patients visit emergency departments (ED) compared to family physicians who saw more patients in-person, according to new research.

In addition to their role in energy metabolism, mitochondria play important roles in other cellular processes, such as apoptosis, calcium signaling and the synthesis of certain biomolecules. Mitochondria have also been implicated in the development and progression of cancer. In some cases, cancer cells may overproduce certain mitochondrial proteins, known as oncoproteins, that contribute to the uncontrolled growth and survival of cancer cells.