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VEXAS: how a deadly disease was discovered

... discovery is pretty surprising. Phil Sansom heard from the NIH’s Dan Kastner... Dan - VEXAS is a fascinating disorder ... and with many patients they hit a brick wall. The NIH had thousands of such undiagnosed people. Enter ... under some circumstances, may be helpful. Dan Kastner, NIH Scientists at the USA's NIH managed to link together some ...

Microscopic magnets designed and tested in a joint NIST/NIH project, might one day be injected into the body to add color and “smart tag” capability to magnetic resonance imaging for medical diagnosis and research.

Superior scans: technicolour comes to MRI

... disease. Writing in this week's Nature, Maryland-based NIH researcher Gary Zabow and his colleagues describe how ...

The Brain

Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury

... and computer-based testing. One of these tools is the NIH Toolbox, a collection of testing tools designed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate patients’ psychological health, reasoning ... measures and self-reported measures. Another recent NIH creation is the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement ...

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Missing link in anaemia: arginine vasopressin

... blood cells. Writing in Science Translational Medicine, NIH researcher Balázs Mayer and his colleagues noticed that ... over a 12 day period compared with control samples. The NIH team also found that giving AVP to animals that had lost ...

Cancer cells in culture

Essential genes combat cancer

... Nicholas Restifo led the study and he's based at the NIH in Maryland… Nicholas - For the immune system to see ... that we’re using can still succeed.   Nicholas Restifo, NIH The immune system can be programmed to attack cancer, but ...

Paying the price

... to misconduct had been funded to the tune of $58m by the NIH. Dr Chris Smith spoke to Ferric Fang from the University ... to misconduct had been funded to the tune of $58m by the NIH. Paying the price ...

Mould spores

Fungal sugar used to track aspergillus infection

... is the brain behind the breakthrough and she’s at the NIH Clinical Center… Dima - Aspergillus is actually found ... do anything about it. So it just goes away. Dima Hammoud, NIH Clinical Center A carbohydrate mammal can't break down ...

Healthcare worker drawing up influenza (flu) vaccine shot

Universal flu vaccine breakthrough

... in humans. Karin Bok is the Deputy Director at the NIH Vaccine Research Center... Karin - Influenza virus is ... is a breakthrough which is why we're excited. Karin Bok, NIH Getting a step closer to beating influenza... Universal ...

Intraparietal sulcus

The anxious brain

... to receive electric shocks, Nicholas Balderston, from the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, has identified a brain region that ... of anxiety in these individuals. Nicholas Balderston, NIH A region of the brain called the intraparietal sulcus ...

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Repurposing drugs and reducing pain

... thought it could also help with AKU. Unfortunately, the NIH trial run was inconclusive, so US Food and Drug ... work; it just needed to be tested more rigorously. The NIH trial had only tried the drug in 20 people with a low ...

Antibodies to neutralise 90% of AIDS viruses

... the prospect of a vaccine a significant step closer. NIH researchers John Mascola and Peter Kwong, in a pair of ...

Histopathogic image of senile plaques seen in the cerebral cortex in a patient with Alzheimer disease of pre-senile onset. Silver impregnation.

New way to block Alzheimer's

... and published in the journal Science and the other from an NIH team in Bethesda, US and published in PNAS , focus on the ...

AIDS Virus Achillies Heel Discovered

Scientists at the US NIH vaccine research centre may have uncovered HIV's weak ...