Genetic muscle diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting and often early death, with few treatment options and no cure. Some gene therapies that use a harmless virus to deliver a…
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Eyeglasses for school kids boosts academic performance
Students who received eyeglasses through a school-based program scored higher on reading and math tests, Johns Hopkins researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute and School of Education found in the…
Link between ADHD and dementia across generations
A large study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has found a link between ADHD and dementia across generations. The study, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's…
A promising path for future treatments to stop progressive multiple sclerosis
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, and others have published results of studies that map out the activity of genes, molecules, cells, and their interactions in…
Light-activated drugs provide localized medicine without side effects
Photopharmacology is an emerging area of science based on the development of photosensitive drugs, that is, drugs that activate with light. A team from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona…
A new study answers vital question about preterm labour and opens the door for future treatments
A team of researchers from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the University of Newcastle has discovered the process of labor during preterm birth is different from that of…
Childhood gender nonconformity in boys linked to early androgens
In laboratory animals, sex differences in behavior occur because different hormone levels produced by males and females influence patterns of gene expression in the developing brain. However, the origins of…