MIT researchers have developed a “living implant” that uses muscle to restore function to weakened organs—potentially offering an alternative to mechanical devices and transplants.

A collaborative research study co-led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Liber Institute for Brain Development has for the first time identified a biological process that may help explain how the brain develops differently in people with Down syndrome.

Researchers at the ALS Center Netherlands at University Medical Center Utrecht have identified new genetic abnormalities that play a role in the development of ALS. As a result, the proportion of patients for whom a genetic cause can be identified of the neuromuscular disease has increased from 20 to 25 percent. The discovery also improves understanding of the disease and may, in time, support the development of targeted treatments for a subset of patients.

Colour coding on food product labels is becoming more common. How does it influence consumers and their dietary choices? Recent research by scientists from SWPS University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Massachusetts indicates that colour coding is much more effective than simple nutritional tables, and it is all due to the way the brain responds to benefit and risk signals.

Lifestyle and dietary changes may help people living with endometriosis.

Early recovery after stroke is dominated by powerful biological repair processes, and increasing the therapy dose over and above standard care very early after stroke may not enhance those processes.

A nationwide clinical RCT trial led by Dr. Kazumi Kimura at Kumamoto University Hospital has found that adding catheter ablation to standard anticoagulant therapy did not significantly reduce the risk of recurrent stroke or major cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation who had recently experienced a stroke.