Dr. Jane
November 30, 2022
Visit the News Hub The goal is to reduce dangerous side effects of potent opioid pain reliever A research team, led by scientists at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis, have altered the chemical properties of fentanyl and the way that …
Visit the News Hub Behavior surprisingly does not require brain’s visual cortex Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a pathway in the brains of mice that is activated when the animals see other mice scratching. ” data-medium-file=”https://medicine.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/scratching-mice-v2-300×200.jpg” data-large-file=”https://medicine.wustl.edu /wp-content/uploads/scratching-mice-v2-700×467.jpg”/>Chen Lab Read moreInsilico Medicine expands synthetic lethality portfolio with nomination of a preclinical candidate targeting …
Dr Victoria Brookes is Leading a project funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization to enhance disease surveillance and emergency responses to transboundary and emerging infectious diseases. Her work is across a number of nations in the Pacific, including Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Samoa. The goal of this program is to increase these nation’s abilities to …
Newswise — Scientists at Yale Cancer Center have found that patients with breast cancer and high levels of insulin in the blood may be responsive to metabolism-targeting treatments, which in turn may improve the effectiveness of subsequent chemotherapy treatments. The findings were published today in Communications Biology. The incidence of breast cancer is projected to increase more than 50% between …
Dr. Jane
January 17, 2022
It’s a cold winter day and I’m standing in a room watching my dog stare at two flowerpots. I’m about to get an answer to a burning question: Is my pup a smart girl? Dogs have been our companions for millennia and were domesticated sometime between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago. And the connection continues: according to the latest figures …
Dr. Jane
January 12, 2022
With a sense of smell that is up to 100,000 times more sensitive than humans, dogs have been used to sniff out everything from contraband to plant mushrooms to cancer. But while researchers first began to investigate whether dogs might be effective in the fight against Covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, it is only in the past few …
Dr. Jane
October 23, 2021
Researchers at the University of California’s San Diego School of Medicine used bacteria found in healthy cats to successfully treat a skin infection in mice. These bacteria can serve as the basis for new therapeutic agents against severe skin infections in humans, dogs and cats. The study, published in the journal eLife, was led by Richard L. Gallo, MD, PhD, …
Visit the News Hub Richards, Laidlaw, Orvedahl, Shmuylovich chosen for their innovative research projects Four researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been awarded “high-risk, high-reward” grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant program aims to inspire scientific discovery by providing support for highly innovative research. The grant recipients are (from left) Linda …
Dr. Jane
September 9, 2021
Researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, studied more than 4,300 cats from 26 groups to find out what makes kittens tick. And what was perhaps just the perfect excuse to play with kittens during office hours has produced some amazing results. According to the results of the study, published in Animals magazine, kittens can be divided into one of …
Dr. Jane
September 8, 2021
The personalities of our cat friends are more than meets the eye. Cats, more than dogs, are often viewed by many as mysterious behavior patterns and as less emotionally expressive. But a new study from the University of Helsinki has deciphered the enigmatic patterns of domestic cats and found seven different personality and behavioral traits. The researchers looked at the …
