Lindsay Sabik, Ph.D., associate professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and member of the Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Credit: Lindsay Sabik Insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were linked with an…
Current status of the NCC biobank. The inventories of the two major samples collected in the biobank are shown as of 31 October 2022. In addition to the 1) peripheral blood samples drawn for research purposes and 2) frozen cancer tissue samples, other left-over samples, such as FFPE blocks and plasma, are also used based…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the 1992 dystopian novel “Children of Men,” later adapted to film, humanity faces the chilling reality of a world without children, a global infertility crisis that threatens to extinguish the species. While this apocalyptic vision might seem far-fetched, today’s real world faces a quieter but equally alarming phenomenon: declining human…
Credit: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.02.018 In the field of biomedical research and genomics, the advancement of bioinformatics technologies and tools is opening new frontiers in the understanding of diseases and their diagnosis and treatment. In particular, differential gene expression analysis (DGE) is emerging as a crucial technique to investigate the molecular…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health officials, and community leaders have to know how best to encourage people to change en masse and quickly. Each crisis…
Psychological and physical health status and quality of life increased over the treatment period (A). Psychological distress improved over the 13-week treatment period (B). Self-reported craving also reduced over the treatment period (C). Credit: Clinical Case Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.8740 Researchers are recommending full-scale human trials after an insomnia drug helped a man withdraw from…
Artistic rendering of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) (blue) on a T cell attaching to a targeted cancer protein (red) on another cell. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Targeting anti-cancer therapy to affect cancer cells but not healthy cells is challenging. For chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T–cell immunotherapy, where a patient’s own immune cells…
For individuals without a family history of colorectal cancer (CRC), increasing the interval between colonoscopies for those with a first colonoscopy with negative findings seems safe and can avoid unnecessary colonoscopies, according to a study published online May 2 in JAMA Oncology. Qunfeng Liang, from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and colleagues assessed…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are exploring a new theory on how the chemistry of the brain causes people to form political opinions. James Cook University neuroscientist Professor Zoltan Sarnyai was part of an international team exploring the threat-based neural switch theory, which they hope will calm the political landscape and help people make more…
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Listening to music benefits older adults’ cognitive health, even if it’s music they haven’t heard before or don’t enjoy very much, according to a study by Simon Fraser University and Health Research BC researchers. Led by SFU neuroscientist Sarah Faber, the study published in Network Neuroscience discovered that listening to…
