Health

Trying to stay alive in a town of despair

How a team of former addicts are trying to stop others from becoming "deaths of despair" in Blackpool.

Therapy using intense light and chronological time can benefit heart

Managing circadian rhythms through intense light and chronologically timed therapy can help prevent or treat a variety of circulatory system conditions including heart disease, according to a new study.

Infections from these bacteria are on the rise: New blood test cuts diagnosis time from months to hours

Researchers have designed a platform to perform blood-based diagnoses of nontuberculosis mycobacteria, simplifying and shortening a long-complicated procedure from 6 months to 2 hours. Rapid, accurate diagnosis has never been more important as cases of NTM infections have continued to increase annually, spreading from subtropical regions to more temperate zones in part due to global climate change.

FRYL gene variants linked to a new neurological disorder

A recent study links the FRYL gene to a new neurodevelopmental disorder in humans. They used fruit flies to establish that the loss of a functional copy of the FRY-like transcription coactivator (FRYL) gene is the underlying cause of this new disorder in fourteen individuals.

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