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Researchers identify heart block cause in athletes While heart block is benign for most people, it can be a precursor to more serious heart problems. 23 June, 2021 23:01 Why some endurance athletes experience a heart rhythm disturbance called heart block has been identified by researchers using animal models. The University of Manchester-led study found that long-term exercise in retired racehorses – the best available model of the athlete’s heart – and in mice, triggered molecular changes in a part of the heart known as the atrioventricular (or AV) node. ...

Health-related careers such as neuroscience jobs have been growing in the past decade, given how the development and advancement in technology and science have been significant during these years. 

 E-Mail IMAGE: Lack of the APP family leads to abnormal positioning of neurons (yellow) in the hippocampus. Neurons lacking APP family proteins show fewer synaptic connections. view more  Credit: Susanne Klein, Prof. Müller's research group, Heidelberg University While the APP protein is well-known for its key role in Alzheimer's disease, its contribution to healthy brain function, by contrast, has remained largely unknown until now. Recently, an international research team, led by molecular biologist Prof. Dr Ulrike Müller from Heidelberg University, gained new insights on the ph...

May 7, 2021 DANVILLE — The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a 5-year, $3.6 million contract to Geisinger to study the role of genetic variation in cancer. Researchers from Geisinger and the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) will analyze genetic data from Geisinger’s MyCode Community Health Initiative, a precision medicine project with more than 276,000 consented participants. The work will be led by David J. Carey, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Functional Genomics at Geisinger ...

/PRNewswire/ -- When Luke Terrio was about seven months old, his mother began to realize something was off. He had constant ear infections, developed red spots...