Posts by Johns Hopkins Medicine
Mother’s diet may boost immune systems of premature infants
Pregnant mice fed a diet rich in a molecule found abundantly in cruciferous vegetables gave birth to pups with stronger protection against necrotizing enterocolitis – a leading cause of mortality in premature infants. …
Read Full ArticleImplant improves balance, movement and quality of life for people with inner ear disorder
A prosthetic implant can facilitate walking, relieve dizziness and improve quality of life in patients with inner ear disorder. …
Read Full ArticleA rift in the retina may help repair the optic nerve
Researchers found that removing a membrane that lines the back of the eye may improve the success rate for regrowing nerve cells damaged by blinding diseases. …
Read Full ArticleGut microbe may promote breast cancer
Mouse study suggests gut microbe toxin promotes breast cancer progression. …
Read Full ArticleCancer cells spread by taking over blood vessels
Scientists used a tissue-engineered 3D microvessel model to study how breast cancer cells invade blood vessels and spread to distant sites. …
Read Full ArticleCholesterol-lowering drug improved function of heart’s arteries
Researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of coronary arteries in patients with HIV or high cholesterol levels. …
Read Full ArticleBreast cancer cells can reprogram immune cells to assist in metastasis
Metastatic breast cancer cells can reprogram natural killer (NK) cells so that they stop killing cancer cells and, instead, assist in metastasis. …
Read Full ArticleNanoparticle-delivered gene therapy inhibits blinding eye disease in rodents
Scientists report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for blinding eye disease in animal models. …
Read Full ArticlePrimitive stem cells shown to regenerate blood vessels in the eye
Scientists have successfully made adult human cells revert to a primitive state with the potential to replace and repair damaged retinal blood vessels. …
Read Full ArticleMultimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients
Researchers have developed an integrated genomic approach that potentially could predict which patients with non-small-cell lung cancer will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors. …
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