Polygenic risk scores could improve colorectal cancer screening
Glasgow, UK: Rates of colorectal cancer are high despite widespread adoption of screening programmes in many high-income European countries.
Sleep problems put individuals at risk of respiratory infections
A study based on more than 600 000 participants suggests that insomnia increases the risk of influenza and other respiratory infections.
Researchers find new altered neural circuits in Huntington’s disease
Huntington’s disease is a genetically-based neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor, cognitive and psychiatric disorders in the affected individuals. Understanding the alterations in the neural circuits in this disorder…
Possible Mechanisms of SARS-CoV2-Mediated Myocardial Injury
Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly become a global…
Aggressive cancer cells grow by protecting their identity
A recent paper in “Cell Reports”, co-led by Dr. Christina Scheel from the Skin Cancer Center at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, presents new mechanistic insights into how…