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A summer camp in Georgia (USA) became a major SARS-CoV-2 cluster. At least 260 of its 597 attendants tested positive. The discovery confirms that children can contract the virus and play a key role in its spread.
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"scVelo" is a machine learning-based open software that predicts gene activity in individual cells. This could allow predicting the future state of individual cells and to better understand the course of a disease.
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A team is investigating how some semiochemicals involved in the body's "fight-or-flight reaction" impact immune cells. They aim to further explain how stress can make humans more susceptible to infections or cancer.
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According to current studies, the advantages in endpoint categories such as mortality, morbidity, and health-related quality of life are not offset by disadvantages in darolutamide treatment.
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According to a study, several species of Asia-endemic mosquitoes are spreading in Tyrol. This increases the transmission risk of dangerous viruses such as Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika.
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Modern genetic testing methods improve the diagnosis of rare diseases. This is confirmed by a study in which over 7,000 rare diseases patients were examined and the entire genome was sequenced.
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A new project is developing a software that automatically searches CT images for suspicious signs of critical symptoms, alerting the treating physician of developing complications.
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Researchers at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany) are investigating the brain’s influence in the desire for high-calorie sweet and savory foods just before menstruation.
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Online training could improve asthma patients’ knowledge of their chronic disease just as well as conventional training, hinting at new approaches to future treatments.
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Dr. Paul Sargos (Institute Bergonie, Bordeaux, France) presented the first results of the GETUG-AFU 22 study and won the second prize in the EAU20 Best Abstract Awards Oncology.
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Research teams are increasingly trying to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer. A new study is helping to better understand the "arms race" between immune defenses and the disease, and may help improve modern therapeutic approaches.
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Researchers show that water loss in the cell, the so-called osmotic stress, sets in motion cellular waste disposal, which occurs through an interaction of autophagy and lysosomes; with implications for neurodegenerative diseases.
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The EUPROMS study represents the first patient-driven quality-of-life (QoL) data collection and revealed specific long-term complaints correlating with a given treatment.
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Researchers found that medication and psychotherapy do not differ in the acute treatment of individual symptoms. The researchers' goal remains to develop a more individually adapted therapy.
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Recent studies suggest that steroid sulfatase (STS) can drive prostate cancer and initiate resistance through an alternative androgen synthesis.
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Some people are better protected against UTIs because their bodies produce higher levels of uromodulin. A research team discovered how the helper protein works, with possible implications for UTI treatment and prevention.
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A 10-years single-center study reported that substantially more men complain of reduced sexual desire than a decade ago. Conversely, fewer men complain of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation.
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New findings show that urosepsis is associated with lower mortality than sepsis derived from other sites, but if appropriate measures are not taken, 10-15% will develop a recurrent urosepsis.
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The EAU20 virtual meeting featured a thematic session looking at the controversy in renal cancer surgery considering the timing and necessity of cytoreductive nephrectomy.
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The trend in continental birth rate falls is partly related to economic uncertainty, as demographers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences show using data from the European Demographic Data Sheet.
