YSM News & Updates

Deeper understanding of how the brain prepares the body for food could inform treatments for obesity; Long COVID is linked to autoimmune activity in some patients; study uncovers driver of waste build-up in the brain during aging and neurodegeneration.

New understanding of how tetracycline antibiotics work could inform drug development; a simple blood test may be a noninvasive alternative for monitoring lung transplant rejection; being anesthetized may be more similar to a coma than once thought.

A targeted chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer is beneficial for patients with treatment-resistant uterine cancer; overall rates of death in children have risen more than 6% since 2020; an interdisciplinary, individualized approach can help reduce the impact of chronic pain on veterans.

A new immune therapy was successful in a subset of patients with advanced kidney cancer; a person's unique combination of inherited and acquired mutations can be used to score cancer risk; a neurotransmitter known to quiet activity in the brain can sometimes do the opposite.

How the diverse range of genes linked to disorders like autism disrupt the brain in similar ways; deeper genetic understanding of endometriosis identifies new targets for treatment; the type of fat—not the amount—fuels pancreatic cancer.

Kidney damage in lupus is caused by T cells; new study offers evidence on the safety of diabetes medications for older adults; new insights into how the brain learns speech movement could inform rehabilitation approaches and speech technology.

Researchers identify a potential target for achieving the healthy longevity that can come with calorie restriction; discarded neuroimaging data holds valuable information that could yield new targets for treating psychiatric illness; how first-year medical residents use a unique toolset to find where they fit in a new community.

Cognitive deficits observed in type 1 diabetes may stem from the genetic risk underlying the condition; a machine learning tool can suggest if and when patients with a rare blood cancer should undergo stem cell transplant; a neuroimaging technique could identify one of the most common forms of frontotemporal dementia earlier.

Researchers identified drug candidates that reversed disrupted behaviors in zebrafish models of autism; a Parkinson's disease drug alters the microbiome in a way that counteracts its intended effect; a more accurate view of the molecular activity in brain cells could offer insight into how the activity changes in diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Timely insights from four new studies examining social media impact on teen brains; craving affects decision making differently depending on whether it is for alcohol or cannabis; the role biomarkers are playing in autism research.