You can save this page to your desktop by using Add to Home Screen.
Home Blog Page 5
New research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell-mediated immunity to the new coronavirus, even if they have not tested positively for antibodies. According to the researchers, this means that public immunity is probably higher than antibody tests suggest. The article is freely available on the bioRxiv...
The vitality of preterm infants should be assessed with an Apgar score, a tool used to measure the health of newborns immediately after birth. That is the conclusion by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden who in a large observational study examined the value of Apgar scores for preterm infants. The findings are published in the New England Journal...
Using genetically modified cells, researchers from Uppsala University hope to create a treatment for Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer as of today lacking a cure. “Our ambition is to start clinical studies within four years”, says Magnus Essand, Professor of Gene Therapy. Immuno-oncology, the method of taking advantage of the body’s own immune system against cancer cells, is an upcoming...
Glioblastoma is a severe type of brain tumour that is currently incurable. Anna Dimberg and Magnus Essand are researching a method that activates the body’s own immune system by building a “boot camp” in the brain where the immune system’s T-cells are trained. A specially designed virus could also help fight the tumour. Glioblastoma brain tumours are incredibly aggressive and...
Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular barrier which makes blood-vessel walls selectively impermeable, thereby reducing the spread of tumour cells to other parts of the body. The study is published in the journal Cancer Research. Platelets, or thrombocytes, as...
Women’s risk of falling ill with cardiovascular disease, and dying from it, is lower than that of men of the same age, irrespective of where in the world they live. This is shown by a study of, in total, more than 160,000 men and women in 27 countries. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg are now among those presenting...
Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows. In even moderate COVID-19 cases, finding and measuring a blood-based biomarker for brain damage proved to be possible. Some people infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 get only mild, cold-like symptoms, while others become severely ill and...
When bedbound intensive care patients are moved within a hospital, the single most common risk factor is nonfunctioning technology and equipment. These transfers, a well-known moment of risk, have been studied in a University of Gothenburg thesis. Moving critically ill patients within a hospital, for investigations and treatments, always entails risks. Today, however, the majority of these patients are in...
Antidepressants are generally safe, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The researchers did not find strong evidence of adverse health outcomes associated with antidepressant use. The findings have been published in JAMA Psychiatry. There has been a sharp growth of antidepressant use worldwide. These drugs rank third among prescribed medications and fourth among sold medications....
brain
Tiny channels between nerve cells are involved in a newly discovered mechanism of how Parkinson’s disease can spread throughout the brain. Researchers from LiU demonstrate that harmful protein aggregates can “hitch a lift” with channel-forming proteins, and in this way spread to healthy cells. Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, affect different regions of the human brain....
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -