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Health - Pharmacology - 23.01.2025

A new study led by Western researchers found frequent treatment with intranasal oxytocin - a hormone in the brain associated with empathy - offers promise for addressing a key symptom among patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD): Apathy. It's a common issue among those with FTD which affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, impacting language, behaviour and decision making.
Health - Pharmacology - 23.01.2025
New combination immunotherapy for melanoma and breast cancer
A research team at the Medical University of Vienna led by Maria Sibilia has investigated a new combination therapy against cancer. This therapy employs systemic administration of the tissue hormone interferon-I combined with local application of Imiquimod. This combination showed promising results in topically accessible tumors like melanoma and breast cancer models: The therapy led to the death of tumor cells at the treated sites and simultaneously activated the adaptive immune system to fight even distant metastases.
Health - Pharmacology - 23.01.2025

A molecule already used for different purposes in humans could improve post-vaccination immune memory The RNA vaccine against COVID-19 has many qualities, but it has one shortcoming that has escaped no one's notice: the protection it confers is short-lived, hence the need for frequent booster doses.
Health - Pharmacology - 22.01.2025
High-tech microscopy enables tailored rheumatology therapies
Researchers at CeMM and the Medical University of Vienna have developed an innovative microscopy-based approach that could predict the best approved drug to treat individual rheumatoid arthritis patients using samples of their blood. Published in the Lancet group journal EBioMedicine the study demonstrates the feasibility of precision medicine to significantly enhance treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and likely other autoimmune diseases.
Pharmacology - Health - 21.01.2025
Antibiotics, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication linked to reduced risk of dementia
Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication are associated with reduced risk of dementia, according to new research that looked at health data from over 130 million individuals. We urgently need new treatments to slow the progress of dementia, if not to prevent it.
Chemistry - Pharmacology - 21.01.2025

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a new process for reversing the polarity of chemical compounds, also known as umpolung, for the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals. This innovative method, developed by a team of scientists led by Professor Christoph Schneider at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, provides a solution-oriented approach to a long-standing challenge in organic and medicinal chemistry," says Till Friedmann, lead author of It has just been published in the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Health - Pharmacology - 21.01.2025
New study to look at how people develop resistance to flu
An international researchers will investigate how people develop resistance to the flu in an international £1.76m study backed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The new project will combine human challenge and vaccine studies to investigate how our immune response in the respiratory tract respond differently to influenza infection and vaccination, which could ultimately help to improve vaccines and treatments.
Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 16.01.2025

Scientists have used deep learning to design new proteins that bind to complexes involving other small molecules like hormones or drugs, opening up a world of possibilities in the computational design of molecular interactions for biomedicine. In 2023, scientists in the joint School of Engineering and School of Life Sciences Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering ( LPDI ), led by Bruno Correia, published in Nature a deep-learning pipeline for designing new proteins to interact with therapeutic targets.
Health - Pharmacology - 16.01.2025
Child undernutrition may be contributing to global measles outbreaks, researchers find
Study of fully vaccinated children finds a link between stunted growth and weakened immunity, suggesting combatting child hunger could help prevent the disease's spread Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas suffering from food insecurity.
Pharmacology - Health - 16.01.2025

Scientists at UdeM and its affiliated research institute IRIC have developed a new drug-discovery platform for high-risk leukemias in children - with promising results.
Chemistry - Pharmacology - 15.01.2025
Innovative enzyme breakthrough could transform drug and chemical manufacturing
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester have described a novel enzyme that could significantly change the way essential chemicals and medicines are made. Published today (15 January 2025) in Nature, t'his breakthrough centres on a process called nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S Ar), a class of transformation that is widely used across the chemical industries including pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.
Life Sciences - Pharmacology - 15.01.2025

The use of generative artificial intelligence in protein design stands to revolutionize new drug development. EPFL ambitions putting together a consortium to further explore this avenue. All living things are made of proteins. They play a key role in cell structure, nourishment and health, as well as in drug-body interactions.
Psychology - Pharmacology - 15.01.2025
Researchers Urge Shift To Social Context in Alcohol Studies
A recent editorial by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign calls for a significant change in how laboratory alcohol studies are conducted. Published in the journal Addiction, the editorial emphasizes the urgent need for experimental research that incorporates social drinking contexts to more accurately reflect typical alcohol consumption and better understand the development of alcohol use disorders (AUD).
Health - Pharmacology - 14.01.2025
Safely reducing the use of antibiotics in hospitals
New research finds that PCT (procalcitonin) blood test does not lower antibiotic treatment duration for hospitalised children . A study led by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Cardiff University's Centre of Clinical Trials Research, has found that despite previous promising analysis, a blood test used to diagnose infection and sepsis did not reduce the time children spend on intravenous antibiotics in hospitals.
Health - Pharmacology - 14.01.2025

A team from UNIGE-HUG Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases, MSF, MSF Epicentre, Johns Hopkins University and South Sudanese Ministry of Health has demonstrated the effectiveness of a vaccine against hepatitis E, during an epidemic, in South Sudan.
Health - Pharmacology - 14.01.2025
Saliva activates coagulation in persons with haemophilia A
A recent study led by MedUni Vienna provides new insights into the mechanisms of coagulation in persons with haemophilia A, the most common form of haemophilia. The research team was able to show that saliva contains special vesicles that trigger rapid coagulation of the blood of haemophilic patients.
Health - Pharmacology - 09.01.2025

A new look at cancer cells: Würzburg researchers show in the journal 'Science' how therapeutic antibodies work - thanks to an innovative method of super-resolution microscopy. In blood cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, B cells of the immune system multiply uncontrollably. One form of therapy involves labelling the CD20 protein on the surface of the B cells with customised antibodies.
Health - Pharmacology - 09.01.2025
Milestone in the field of lung transplantation: improvement in rejection and infection rate thanks to extracorporeal photopheresis
Researchers from the Vienna Lung Transplant Program of MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna have published the first prospective, randomized and controlled study on the use of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) in lung transplantation in the renowned European Respiratory Journal. The findings could significantly change the standard procedure for rejection reactions after lung transplants.
Agronomy / Food Science - Pharmacology - 09.01.2025
New research from the RVC reveals reasons for antibiotic usage in Indian chicken farming
New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with the West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences (WBUAFS), explored antibiotic use in chicken farming in eastern India, revealing how poultry companies play a significant role in influencing the way antibiotics are used during food production compared to chicken farmers.
Health - Pharmacology - 08.01.2025
AI could improve the success of IVF treatment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help doctors identify follicles that are most likely to lead to the birth of a baby during IVF treatment. During IVF treatment, doctors use ultrasound scans to monitor the size of follicles - small sacs in the ovaries containing eggs - to decide when to give a hormone injection known as the 'trigger' to prepare the eggs for collection and ensure that they are ready to be fertilised with sperm to create embryos.
Event - Feb 10
Événement AMIDEX, AMPIRIC Les Actualités de la recherche : conférence de Alfredo BAUTISTA
Événement AMIDEX, AMPIRIC Les Actualités de la recherche : conférence de Alfredo BAUTISTA
Innovation - Feb 10
Focus on artificial intelligence: pioneering projects from the Department of Creative Technologies
Focus on artificial intelligence: pioneering projects from the Department of Creative Technologies
Life Sciences - Feb 10
Less, but more: a new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion
Less, but more: a new evolutionary scenario marked by massive gene loss and expansion

Linguistics - Feb 10
How Natural Language Processing contributes to society: an interview with Professor Lonneke van der Plas
How Natural Language Processing contributes to society: an interview with Professor Lonneke van der Plas

Economics - Feb 10
Swiss parents prefer savings accounts to investment funds when saving for their children
Swiss parents prefer savings accounts to investment funds when saving for their children

Astronomy - Feb 7
Durham's strengths in space and quantum research focus of German Ambassador's visit
Durham's strengths in space and quantum research focus of German Ambassador's visit
Environment - Feb 7
New Research Highlights the Governance and Ecological Challenges of Mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
New Research Highlights the Governance and Ecological Challenges of Mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands