AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY IMAGE: A FLEXIBLE SUPERCAPACITOR WITH ELECTRODES MADE OF WRINKLED TITANIUM CARBIDE MAINTAINED ITS ABILITY TO STORE AND RELEASE ELECTRONIC CHARGES AFTER REPETITIVE STRETCHING. CREDIT: VIDEO CREDIT BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Some electronics can bend, twist and stretch in wearable displays, biomedical applications and soft robots. While these devices’ circuits have...
by University of Chicago Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study led by researchers at the University of Chicago and Indiana University has determined that a protein called elF5A is necessary for driving inflammation in macrophage cells in obesity. Blocking DHPS, the enzyme that modifies and activates elF5A, led to reduced inflammation and improved glucose control in...
by Brittany Steff, Purdue University Majid Kazemian and a team of scientists have discovered that the gene TCF-1 plays a key role in controlling TReg cells, affecting the severity of colon cancer. Credit: Purdue University / Rebecca McElhoe Regulatory T cells (TReg) are essential to regulating the immune system. However, there are several different types of...
by Kelly Malcom, University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. Type 2 diabetes—a condition affecting more than 10 percent of the U.S. population— is one of the main risk factors for severe...
by Todd Handy, Sumeet Jaswal, The Conversation Annoyance with others’ fidgeting can reduce peoples’ ability to enjoy social interactions, impair one’s ability to learn in the classroom and create difficulties at work. Credit: Shutterstock Are you bothered by seeing someone else fidget? Do you ever have strong negative feelings, thoughts or physical reactions when viewing other...
by American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a higher risk of sudden cardiac death than people who do not have HIV, especially if the virus is not well-controlled or if they have other heart disease risk factors, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart...
by University of Helsinki Olfactory bulb/peduncle alpha-synuclein staining predominance categorized by LRP progression-based classification [6]. Percentages add up to 100% within each LRP progression-based classification category, meaning all the caudo-rostral cases equal 100% spread across negative, peripheral and anterior olfactory nucleus predominance for alpha-synuclein staining. Similarly, the amygdala-based category cases add up to 100% spread across the...
by Michael Addelman, University of Manchester Figure 130 day mortality unadjusted odds ratios (OR, left) of variables and final Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) model with estimated 30-day mortality adjusted odds ratios (aOR, right). Variables colored gray were not included in the final GEE model. An OR>1 represents increased occurrence of 30 day mortality. Abbreviations used: FiO2,...
by The Francis Crick Institute Genes from a reduced published signature of TB risk are increasingly differentially expressed in incipient, subclinical, and clinical TB patients. (A) List of published TB 16-gene risk signature from Zak et al. (2016) where *** indicates the presence of a 30-gene signature from Leicester incipient, subclinical TB, and clinical TB from...
by Jim Fessenden, University of Massachusetts Medical School Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A clinical trial of 125 young adults shows that those who limited screen time for 48 hours immediately after suffering a concussion had a significantly shorter duration of symptoms than those who were permitted screen time. These findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, offer the first...
