Scientists have been wrong about phantom limbs for decades

Researchers at the Nanoscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have made a breakthrough in the fight against viral diseases.

A new study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine brings hope for a more personalized approach to treating estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer, the most common type of this cancer. The team identified a biomarker in preclinical ER+ breast cancer models that indicates that the tumor is more likely to respond to treatment with CDK4/6 inhibitors.

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that certain lipids (fats) in obesity-causing foods also cause asthma-like lung inflammation. The findings suggest that in addition to modifying dietary choices, certain existing drugs could be repurposed to help treat this type of asthma.

A new survey-based study suggests that the "unhappiness hump"—a widely documented rise in worry, stress, and depression with age that peaks in midlife and then declines—may have disappeared, perhaps due to declining mental health among younger people. David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One.

Insomnia patients taking cannabis-based medical products reported better quality sleep after up to 18 months of treatment, according to a study published in PLOS Mental Health by Arushika Aggarwal from Imperial College London, U.K., and colleagues.

Breathwork while listening to music may induce a blissful state in practitioners, accompanied by changes in blood flow to emotion-processing brain regions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Amy Amla Kartar from the Colasanti Lab in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, U.K., and colleagues.

A new study of young adults has strongly linked better sleep quality with better mental well-being, with fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity also strongly associated with psychological well-being. Perhaps surprisingly, the findings also suggest that boosting fruit and vegetable intake could potentially help mitigate the effects on well-being after a poor night's sleep.

An international research team led by UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and KU Leuven is using 3D-printing and nanodiamonds to design treatments that could help babies repair their damaged lungs while still in the womb. The new research is published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die. This new observation made by scientists at Gladstone Institutes may help explain what goes awry in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer, is already highly diverse at the time of diagnosis and continues to evolve in unique ways in each patient. The work is published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.

A procedure which uses living heart valves may have expanded application as a treatment for various types of pediatric heart valve conditions.

Could a natural check on cancer be used to stop the disease? It's possible, but to leverage a system that nature designed, we must first understand it. Researchers led by a team at Purdue University are exploring a molecular mechanism that curbs the breakneck cell division associated with cancer. Their work opens the door to developing drugs that capitalize on the mechanism's effects.

A new biochemical approach to combat addiction, developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has shown promising results in reducing drug-seeking behavior.

A study looking at the biophysical properties of an abnormal protein driving cancer cells is giving scientists new therapeutic clues for how to treat ependymoma, the third most common childhood brain tumor.

Eli Lilly says its new once-daily pill, orforglipron, helped people lose significant weight and lower blood sugar in a late-stage clinical trial.

This highlights an important preclinical model that could be successful in humans. The notoriously persistent, difficult-to-treat, lifelong and contagious virus—which insidiously attacks the liver—infects millions, particularly those with compromised immune systems and children. Globally, more than 296 million people are infected, with many living in South Africa.

One third of severely injured trauma patients in the United States are first treated at hospitals designated as Level III or non-trauma centers, and less than half of those patients get transferred out to a Level I trauma center where they can receive more comprehensive trauma care, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

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