by Jim Fessenden, University of Massachusetts Medical School Caenorhabditis elegans. Credit: Kbradnam at English Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 Using four unrelated strains of the microscopic nematode C. elegans originating from different parts of the world, a group of worm biologists have developed a model system to study individual differences in metabolism. The use of C. elegans, a widely...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Microglia and infiltrating immune cells in brain tissue from patients with DRE. Position and phenotype of clusters on the t-SNE map. Color represents the cluster ID. Credit: Kumar et al, Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01095-5 Epilepsy is a common condition that causes those affected to experience frequent seizures, which are bursts of...
by Sam Ogozalek Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It was like a scene in “Stranger Things.” A student at the University of South Florida put on a cap covered with tiny sensors that record electrical signals in the brain. Then he began to stare at a computer screen. The student, Tyree Lewis, was stoic. He folded his hands in...
by Benjamin Boettner, Harvard University The team developed an alginate-based hydrogel system that mimics the viscoelasticity of the natural extracellular matrix in bone marrow. By tweaking the balance between elastic and viscous properties in these artificial ECMs, they could recapitulate the viscoelasticity of healthy and scarred fibrotic bone marrow, and study the effects on human...
Although commonly grouped together, eggs are not dairy products. Dairy products come from the milk of mammals such as cows, whereas eggs come from birds such as hens or ducks. People may think eggs are dairy because retailers often sell the two products close together, and people may group them together because they are both animal products...
TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE IMAGE: RESEARCHERS FROM TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE HAVE DEVELOPED NOVEL COMPLEX-PEPTIDE HYBRIDS, WHICH CAN INDUCE A TYPE OF PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH CALLED “PARAPTOSIS” IN APOPTOSIS-RESISTANT CANCER CELLS. CREDIT: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE Apoptosis, a type of programmed cell death (PCD), is a biological process through which unwanted cells are eliminated in...
It’s easy to be bored in a relationship. If you’re sense stale, it may be the perfect time to break up with all your typical activities and try something totally new! This will likely give your romantic endeavors a try in the adjustable rate mortgage and you’ll commence to laugh mutually again. Luckily, there are...
by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Phase II clinical trial of poziotinib for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 20 mutations, led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, found the drug had significant antitumor activity and...
by Laura Williamson, American Heart Association News Flu-like illnesses can increase the risk for stroke among adults, but being vaccinated might lower those odds, especially among those under 45, new research finds. The study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, found flu-like illnesses increased the odds of having a stroke in the month following infection,...
by Hokkaido University When mice that exhibit SLE-like symptoms are subjected to sleep deprivation stress, their neurons exhibit abnormal growth (left). When IL12 and 23 are blocked, the abnormal growth is reversed (right). Credit: Nobuya Abe et al, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2022) Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that affects all the organ...
