UNIVERSITY OF READING Taking high-dose Vitamin B6 tablets has been shown to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression by new research. Scientists at the University of Reading measured the impact of high doses of Vitamin B6 on young adults and found that they reported feeling less anxious and depressed after taking the supplements every day...
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Skins swabs could be how we test for Covid-19 in the future
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Skin swabs are “surprisingly effective” at identifying Covid-19 infection, according to new research from the University of Surrey, offering a route to a non-invasive future for Covid-19 testing. Surrey’s researchers used non-invasive swabs to collect sebum – an oily waxy substance produced by the body’s sebaceous glands – from 83 hospitalised patients, some of whom...
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Why brain stimulation should not be overlooked as an antidepressant treatment for older adults
CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN IMAGE: TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION IS AN EFFECTIVE ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT ACROSS ALL AGES IN ADULTS. CREDIT: ALEXANDRE AZINHEIRA, CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION. In the USA, rTMS was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2008 to treat patients suffering from treatment resistant depression, or in other words, patients who do not...
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Researchers discover neural plastic changes that improve functional recovery after cervical spinal cord injury
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INDIANAPOLIS—Spinal cord and brain injury researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are studying new alternatives to promote functional recovery after a spinal cord injury. In a paper recently published in JCI Insight, the team of researchers used models in the lab to investigate a unilateral spinal cord injury similar to Brown-Sequard...
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Hallmark cancer gene regulates RNA ‘dark matter’
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA CRUZ IMAGE: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT SHOWS THE EFFECTS OF MUTANT KRAS ON A LUNG CELL’S RNA LANDSCAPE. CREDIT: DANIEL H. KIM A key genetic mutation that occurs early on in cancer alters RNA “dark matter” and causes the release of previously unknown RNA biomarkers for cancer early detection, a new study...
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The zinc link: Unraveling the mechanism of methionine-mediated pluripotency regulation
TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: DIFFERENTIATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS (PSCS) IS REGULATED THROUGH A METHIONINE-MEDIATED MECHANISM, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN PINPOINTED BY TOKYO TECH RESEARCHERS. THEY HAVE REVEALED THAT ZINC (ZN) PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN PSC POTENTIATION. THEY USED THESE INSIGHTS TO DESIGN A PROTOCOL TO CONVERT PSCS INTO INSULIN-PRODUCING PANCREATIC Β CELLS—A...
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Examining COVID-19 and its many sublineages
by University of Missouri Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As new omicron subvariants of COVID-19 continue to sweep across the United States, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified specific mutations within the virus’ spike protein that help omicron subvariants evade existing antibodies humans have from either vaccines or previous COVID-19 infections. These mutations help...
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Study finds loss of ‘youth’ protein may drive aging in eye
by National Institutes of Health RPE from mice without Serpin1 accumulate more lipids than wild-type mice. Super-resolution confocal microscopy of RPE tissue from wild-type (upper) and Serpin1-null (lower) mice. Detailed images on the right are magnified regions of the RPE tissue imaged on the left (dotted square area). RPE cell boundaries are stained in red,...
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Overly restrictive salt intake may worsen outcomes for common form of heart failure
by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain Restricting salt intake is considered a key component of heart failure treatment, but restricting it too much may actually worsen the outcomes for people with a common form of the condition, suggests research published online in the journal Heart. Younger people and those of Black and other ethnicities...
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Blood thickness can predict risk of COVID death
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: JULY 19, 2022 03:44Updated: JULY 19, 2022 16:54 COVID-19 is seen in a blood vessel (Illustrative). (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) A study out of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine published Monday in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology asserted that patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with high estimated blood viscosity are at...