Model can predict the evolution of new covid variants

Evolutionary information can support the design of targeted vaccines

25-Oct-2023 - An international research team from the University of Cologne and the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai (New York) has developed a model that predicts the likely evolution of variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. First, the model predicts which variants can escape human immunity, spread through ...

Researchers report insights into blood stem cells from engineered stem cells

10-Mar-2016 - Building upon previous work, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai identified cells in the embryos of mice that are precursors to blood stem cells or hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs). In previous studies, they reprogrammed mouse skin cells in the lab to become ...

Genetic markers linking risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's identified

20-Jul-2015 - Certain patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) may have specific genetic risk factors that put them at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published recently in Molecular Aspects of Medicine. Under the ...

One punch to knock out flu

19-Jan-2015 - The fact that this year's flu shot is not a good match against this year's influenza strain is well known, and has happened before. But now researchers at McMaster University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say that a universal flu vaccine may be on the horizon, thanks to the ...

Novel nanotherapy breakthrough

23-Jan-2014 - Up to 30 percent of heart attack patients suffer a new heart attack because cardiologists are unable to control inflammation inside heart arteries — the process that leads to clots rupturing and causing myocardial infarction or stroke. But a report in Nature Communications by Icahn School of ...

White blood cells found to play key role in controlling red blood cell levels

19-Mar-2013 - Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that macrophages – white blood cells that play a key role in the immune response – also help to both produce and eliminate the body's red blood cells (RBCs). The ...