In a novel lab environment using mini kidney structures, drugs blocked the swelling of tubes seen with polycystic kidney disease.
Most Alzheimer’s drugs in development target beta-amyloid, but targeting another protein, called tau, may be needed.
Articles on smoking and gun control noted specialists' university affiliations about 90% of the time, but only 77% of the time with references to abortion.
People who regularly engage in physical activity are less likely to go to the doctor, emergency room or hospital, UW Medicine study finds.
Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry receptor.
Results from a new molecular study provide a framework to guide engineering of future SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
The advance creates hope for treating glaucoma and other neurodegenerative conditions in humans.
A study of veterans showed great uncertainty about whether to attribute symptoms to long COVID or to patients' other existing conditions.
Machine learning identified preoperative conditions associated with poor outcomes of left-ventricle assist device surgery.
College athletes face unique pressures when considering whether to disclose such an event, according to a study.
UW Medicine researchers say more studies are needed to determine the findings' clinical value.
Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.
Darwin’s theory of evolution probably isn’t the full explanation for the emergence of life.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought.
SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
In a new study, PhD students Gabriel Bridges and Shifra Mandel help show that both poles of Jupiter are aglow with high-energy light.
Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.
A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, say researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.