Spotlighting stress: a hidden cause of disease
Stress affects mental health in obvious ways, but it can also exacerbate cardiac disease and interfere with cancer treatment.
cardiovascular disease
A new strategy for fighting age-related disease
Drugs that target senescent cells could one day treat frailty, Alzheimer’s disease, or cancer.
Heart cells grow to their own beats
Armed with beautiful microscope images and new translational assays, Dylan Burnette hopes to discover novel and affordable treatments for heart disease.
A Snapshot of Proteomics for Precision Medicine
Researchers use new tools to study proteome profiles and track subtle disease-associated changes in protein dynamics.
A worldwide effort to bank patient DNA
Researchers around the world are on a mission to bank biological samples from millions of people. So far, these efforts have disclosed the effects of arsenic exposure on the genome, supported development of early cancer diagnostics, and even revealed the ideal timing for COVID-19 boosters.
A new weight loss strategy turns fat into energy
By using extracellular vesicles to target specific neurons in the hypothalamus, scientists induced weight loss in a mouse model of obesity without altering its diet or exercise.
CRISPR advances cardiovascular disease research
CRISPR gene editing directly and indirectly drives advances in cardiovascular disease therapeutic development.
