UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – IRVINE IMAGE: SCATTER PLOTS SHOW THE CORRELATION BETWEEN DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION AND DIFFERENTIAL METHYLATION CALCULATED BY THE TRADITIONAL AND CHALM METHODS. CREDIT: UCI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Irvine, CA – January 27, 2021 – A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds a new method for identifying biomarkers may aid in early cancer...
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO IMAGE: THE HORMONE ACTS AS A BARRIER AGAINST SARS-COV-2, BLOCKING THE EXPRESSION OF GENES THAT ENCODE PROTEINS IN CELLS SERVING AS VIRAL ENTRY POINTS, ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO CREDIT: NIAD/NIH By Elton Alisson | Agência FAPESP- Melatonin synthesized...
HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES IMAGE: A metalens fabricated on 2-inch glass wafer (left) and a scanning fiber mounted through a piezo tube (right). The fiber tip locates within the focal length of the metalens. Light travels along the fiber and emits out from the scanning fiber tip, where a...
by Washington University School of Medicine Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have engineered cartilage cells to release an anti-inflammatory drug in response to stresses such cells undergo when they are compressed during weight bearing and movement. Here, the cell, called a chondrocyte, is stimulated with a very small glass pipette, about 1/5...
by University of Pennsylvania Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia Many genetic mutations have been found to be associated with a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. Yet for most of these variants, the mechanism through which they act remains unclear. Now...
by Washington University School of Medicine mmune cells (yellow and purple) fill a sinus (teal) in the outer layer of the meninges, the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that immune cells stationed in such sinuses monitor the brain and initiate an immune response...
Paul Tullis Illustration by Gizem Vural PDF version On a sunny day in London in 2015, Kirk Rutter rode the Tube to Hammersmith Hospital in hopes of finally putting an end to his depression. Rutter had lived with the condition off and on for years, but the burden had grown since the death of his...
Pioneering research into how our bodies manufacture the cells that make blood has moved us closer to regrowing tissues and organs. The findings also may let doctors grow cells for transplantation into people to battle cancer, blood disorders and autoimmune diseases. Researcher Karen K. Hirschi of the University of Virginia’s Department of Cell Biology and Robert M....
Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health Concerns In the emerging discipline of telemedicine psychiatry (also telecounseling), a healthcare professional, including a counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist, on the other side of a video chat can assess your mood and other mental health symptoms, offer counseling, and even prescribe certain medications to help you feel better. Also called “telemental health,” these services offer...
By Sarah Handzel If you have type 2 diabetes, you probably began your treatment with lifestyle changes and oral medications. For many, these treatments are enough to control blood sugar, also called blood glucose, for several years. However, for other people, these options aren’t always enough. Your blood sugar may still be elevated, even though you’ve...
