Author: Olivia Dimmer
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Investigating How Dopamine Influences Movement
A new Northwestern Medicine study challenges traditional ideas about how dopamine influences movement, according to findings published in Science Advances.
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Imaging Agent May Improve Diagnoses for Rare Heart Disease
A PET/CT radiotracer demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for detecting cardiac amyloidosis and could provide diagnostic clarity when standard imaging tests do not provide definitive results, according to a recent clinical trial published in JAMA.
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Experimental Drug Shows Potential for Hard-to-Treat Heart Disease
An experimental drug has been shown to improve symptoms, exercise capacity and heart failure status in patients with an inherited heart disease, according to a pair of newly published studies.
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Investigating the Role of Lymphatic Vessels in Heart Growth and Repair
A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a previously unknown signaling system that helps regulate heart growth during development, according to the study published in the journal Genes and Development.
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Understanding the Link Between Genetic Risk and Brain Communication Disorders
A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests a major psychiatric risk gene remains important well into adulthood and may influence brain communication, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Identifying Patients at Lower Risk for Kidney Transplant Rejection
A new risk stratification model developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists may help better identify patients who have a lower risk of kidney transplant rejection, which can inform more personalized treatment and care strategies that present fewer adverse side effects, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications.
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Investigating Tumor Growth After Immunotherapy
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a biological mechanism that may explain why a subset of tumors unexpectedly grows at an accelerated rate after being treated with certain immunotherapies, according to findings published in Cancer Discovery.
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Experimental Drug May Disrupt Immune Circuits in Pneumonia
A drug that blocks calcium release-activated calcium channels may help interrupt harmful immune cell interactions that drive severe viral pneumonia, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Study Finds Long-Term Benefits of Stroke Thrombectomy
A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone.
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Designing Supramolecular Therapies to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered key molecular design principles that could help supramolecular therapeutics cross the blood-brain barrier, a major challenge for the novel approach to treating neurological disorders.
