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ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine has achieved a significant milestone with its Tapestry study, generating the clinic’s largest-ever collection of exome data, which include genes that code for proteins — key to understanding health and disease. Led by Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., the study analyzed DNA from over 100,000 participants from diverse backgrounds, providing important insights into…
Newswise — The image of “Muay Thai” we now know is a version that has undergone several adaptations. For Muay Thai teachers or Muay Thai schools, Muay Thai still has a lot of charm that many people have yet to know about and should be presented to conserve its value and create greater economic value. …
Newswise — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved funding awards totaling more than $156 million for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), as well as research to improve methods and strengthen the science of engagement in CER. The awards will support 13 CER studies, including three…
Twice-yearly injections of the capsid inhibitor drug lenacapavir can prevent the vast majority of HIV infections, according to a Phase 3 clinical trial published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has emerged as a crucial tool for fighting the global HIV epidemic, but researchers say daily pill regimens remain an obstacle…
Newswise — Scattered across the United States are remnants from almost 170 years of commercial drilling: hundreds of thousands of forgotten oil and gas wells. These undocumented orphaned wells (UOWs) are not listed in formal records, and they have no known (or financially solvent) operators. They are often out of sight and out of mind…
BYLINE: Rebecca Dzombak A study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center may have, at last, cracked the cold case of immunotherapy resistance. The research, led by Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., identifies the UBA1 enzyme, already known to contribute to tumor growth, as a key mediator for the immune response to a…
In a groundbreaking new study, conducted within the framework of the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes drive Planetary Health”, scientists from the University of Vienna, in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Aalborg University and Boston University, have revealed that the widely prescribed Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone significantly disrupts the human gut microbiome by inducing…
As global water resources become more strained, the insights gained from traditional agricultural systems could pave the way for the development of innovative, low-water-use agricultural practices to confront the growing challenges of water scarcity and food insecurity in arid and marginal regions. A new study exploring traditional sunken groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in coastal and inland sand…
BYLINE: Chris Patrick Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury – a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting neurological damage to a developing fetus. Unfortunately, methylmercury often makes its way into our bodies through seafood – but once…
The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business is proud to announce that alumnus Stephen M. Schanwald ‘77, former Executive Vice President of Business Operations with the Chicago Bulls and a trailblazer in sports marketing, has given an $8 million gift to establish the Stephen M. Schanwald Sports Management Program. The gift is…
