by Rush University Medical Center Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia Potential new treatments for Parkinson’s disease developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center have shown success in slowing progression of the disease in mice. In a study published in Nature Communications, Rush researchers found that...
Enthesitis is the medical term for inflammation of one or more entheses. These are sites at which tendons and ligaments attach to bones. Enthesitis can cause symptoms such as joint pain and stiffness and problems with mobility. The condition can develop as a result of overuse, injuries, or underlying diseases. This article describes what enthesitis...
by Rockefeller University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With every new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that emerges to cause a surge in cases, a worrisome question also arises: Could the virus eventually arrive at a set of mutations that would enable it to fully evade our immune response? A new study, published in Nature, suggests that it will...
UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG IMAGE: THE MICROFLUIDIC MULTIPLEX BIOSENSOR CARRIES PROTEINS ATTACHED TO A POLYMER FILM THAT RECOGNIZE THE ANTIBIOTICS CREDIT: PATRICK SEEGER / UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the concentration of antibiotics in the body can be...
INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IOCB PRAGUE) IMAGE: DR. KLÁRA GRANTZ ŠAŠKOVÁ OF THE PROTEASES OF HUMAN PATHOGENS GROUP AT IOCB PRAGUE CREDIT: PHOTO: TOMAS BELLON / IOCB PRAGUE Researchers from IOCB Prague have discovered a new type of substances capable of safely transporting various types of nucleic acids...
ALPHAMED PRESS IMAGE: BIOLOGICAL AGING OF TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TISSUE SPECIFIC STEM CELLS (TSC) AND THEIR TROPHIC UNIT, THE PSEUDOSTRATIFIED CONDUCTING AIRWAY EPITHELIUM. EACH INJURY ACTIVATES A SUBSET OF TSC WHICH PROLIFERATE AND UNDERGO TERMINAL DIFFERENTIATION. THUS, EACH INJURY CYCLE DEPLETES THE TSC POOL AND MANY INJURIES COMPROMISE EPITHELIAL REGENERATION. OVER TIME, BIOLOGICAL AGE EXCEEDS CHRONOLOGICAL AGE...
THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY WASHINGTON—Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Reviews. Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a certain number of hours each day. Intermittent...
by The North American Menopause Society Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hair thinning is one of the many symptoms that accompanies the menopause transition. Roughly 40% of women over 60 will experience what’s known as female pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia). However, a new study suggests that a nutraceutical supplement may improve hair growth...
IMAGE: LEAD INVESTIGATOR CHAMINDIE PUNYADEERA, PHD, PERFORMS SALIVA TESTING. THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY SUPPORT THE UTILITY OF SALIVA TESTING AS A BIOMARKER FOR FACILITATING EARLY DETECTION AND SCREENING OF HIGH-RISK HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS DNA. CREDIT: CHAMINDIE PUNYADEERA Philadelphia, September 21, 2021 – Cancer causing high-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are responsible for the rising incidence of HR-HPV–driven...
IMAGE: A TUMOR-SPECIFIC T CELL ENGAGES WITH A TUMOR CELL. BYSTANDER T CELLS DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THE TUMOR. CREDIT: PNAS DEC. 10, 2002, COPYRIGHT (2002) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, U.S.A. Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different “program” that...
