Liam Drew

2 months ago | nature.com | Liam Drew

Plants and animals that gain protection by US law owe much more to studies published in small, specialist journals than they do to those published in prestigious titles such as Nature and Science. That’s the finding of a study1 that tracked citations linked to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a US law designed to protect and support the recovery of species at risk of extinction.

Dec 12, 2024 | nature.com | Liam Drew

In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement forced the United States to reckon with systemic racism and its causes and manifestations. Driven partially by the disproportionate toll that the COVID-19 pandemic had on African Americans, the protests forced the medical community to question how to address racial health disparities, including how clinical practice itself can perpetuate systemic racism. One prominent issue was the racial categories that are used in medical diagnostics.

Dec 3, 2024 | livescience.com | Liam Drew

Zapping the vagus nerve promotes blood clotting, new research suggests. These findings are the first evidence in humans of a "neural tourniquet," or a brain-based pathway that could reduce bleeding, said study co-author Dr. Jared Huston, a trauma surgeon at the Firestein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health in New York.

Nov 20, 2024 | cerveauetpsycho.fr | Liam Drew

En novembre 2008, la neuroscientifique Susana Carmona – alors post-doctorante à l’université Charles-III de Madrid, où elle menait des recherches sur le trouble déficitaire de l’attention avec hyperactivité – conduisait en voiture deux collègues à une fête, lorsque l’une d’entre elles annonça qu’elle envisageait d’avoir un enfant. Une joyeuse nouvelle qui les amena à discuter de la manière dont la grossesse pourrait affecter le cerveau de la future maman.

Sep 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Liam Drew

The result was exciting. Thirteen people with serious kidney disease given a new type of drug for three months had, on average, seen the amount of protein pathologically leaking into their urine fall by almost 50 percent. In this elemental test of kidney function, some participants saw an improvement of more than 70 percent. But other things make this clinical trial, published in March 2023, stand out further. The first is the rapidity with which a scientific discovery led to a targeted therapy.