by Serena Gordon, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—Type 2 diabetes can be tough to control without medication. But for some people, the thought of daily shots makes them delay or avoid starting insulin therapy. Now, new research offers some hope for those insulin avoiders—a once-a-week insulin injection may someday replace daily shots. A phase 2 trial compared the new weekly insulin,...
by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have shown there may be key genetic differences in the causes of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) between African Americans and people of European ancestry, which may play an important part in how patients of different ethnic backgrounds respond to treatments for this condition. The findings...
I do not have to stress how important a role food and eating play in our lives. Food is at the base in Maslow’s hierarchy of our needs, it is essential for our survival. It shows the creativity of humankind perfectly: food exists in the richest variety of ingredients, forms, shapes, tastes and colours all over the world from the Greenlandic kiviak (dozens...
by Public Library of Science While disease activity improves over time for most rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, long-term outcomes only improve in RA patients with autoantibodies, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Xanthe Matthijssen of Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, and colleagues. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that...
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON – Light therapy is safe and has measurable effects in the brain, according to a pioneering study by researchers from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Senior investigators Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD, director of the Ultra-High Resolution Volume CT Lab at MGH and Benjamin Vakoc, PhD, at the Wellman...
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY IMAGE: A PARYLENE PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE SURROUNDED BY NEURONS. Carnegie Mellon University’s Maysam Chamanzar and his team have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. He’s labeled this new field of optical technology “Parylene photonics,” demonstrated in a recent paper in Nature Microsystems and Nanoengineering. There...
by Meghan Lepisto, University of Wisconsin-Madison This three-dimensional, semi-transparent rendering of a whole influenza virus shows both the clover-like surface proteins on the outside of the virus, as well as the internal ribonucleoproteins on the inside. Existing influenza vaccines introduce proteins found on the surface of flu viruses to help induce immune protection. A new study...
by Osaka University Fig.1 Ribosomal protein mRNA partially reversed impaired axonal outgrowth found in TDP-43-knockdown neurons. Decrease of TDP-43 in mouse cortical neurons impaired axonal outgrowth, which was significantly improved by overexpression of individual ribosomal protein mRNAs. Credit: National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry As the current COVID-19 crisis has shown, the disruptions that occur when...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF INNOVATION) TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2020)- More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the University of South Florida claim that even if those deaths have been correctly measured, the number...
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: (LEFT TO RIGHT) MEMBERS OF THE NTU RESEARCH TEAM INCLUDE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DALTON TAY FROM THE SCHOOL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE KENNY WU AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAN NGUAN SOON FROM NTU’S LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced...
