YSM News & Updates

Researchers investigated how people interact with wearable devices and health-related content on social media; study uncovers the structure of the bacteria behind gum disease; veterans living in neighborhoods with greater advantage had increased risk of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Gut-homing antibodies provide powerful protection against norovirus; blood vessels operate as a coordinated signaling network; treatment for alcohol use disorder can reverse harmful brain effects of heavy drinking.

A vaccine for genital herpes shows promise in preclinical models; a detailed map of the aging ovary reveals how its cellular organization changes across the reproductive lifespan; cells use signaling waves to determine how big they should be.

New brain-computer interface lets people control a video game with their brains; deeper understanding of skin resiliency could have implications for age-related skin changes; genomes from Oceania offer clues about human evolution.

Researchers uncover how an aggressive brain tumor becomes treatment-resistant; organs help direct the development of their own nervous systems; a home-based pill regimen offers hope to patients with acute myeloid leukemia who cannot endure intensive chemotherapy.

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.