by Laura Hegwer, Rush University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every five minutes, someone in the world receives the life-changing news that they have multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks the protective layer of the nerves and causes lesions, or scars, in the brain and spinal cord. If you’re...
by Monica Dus, The Conversation What we eat matters, and having just the right amount of essential nutrients is key to our overall health. Credit: Niusha Shodja and Saina Heshmati, Storylab, CC BY-NC-ND During the long seafaring voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries, a period known as the Age of Discovery, sailors reported experiencing visions of sublime foods...
by Cristian Apetrei, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may have made the amount, variety and speed of misinformation seem unprecedented, but COVID-19 isn’t the first pandemic where false and harmful information has set back public...
by Latrobe University Thymic cortical T cell deletion induced by a CDR3 cysteine. TCR-retrogenic mice expressing the 6218 or 6218αC TCR were made as described in Fig. 1, except that all recipients were male B6 mice (n = 4 for 6218; n = 4 for 6218αC). TCR-retrogenic mice were analyzed 5 weeks after BM transfer at 99-138 days of age....
by Medical University of Vienna Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In its final Phase III clinical trial, a new drug for treating rheumatoid arthritis has proved to be at least as effective as the current “gold standard” treatment for this autoimmune disease. This opens up new treatment options for affected patients. The results of the international...
by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More-effective therapies are greatly needed for children with the high-risk blood cancer T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have leveraged the latest chemical technology called a proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) to develop a drug for these patients. The findings were...
by NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that a novel blood test can be used to easily evaluate disease severity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and predict survivability. PAH is a rare, life-threatening condition that causes unexplained high blood pressure...
by Noah Fromson, University of Michigan Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and when maximum protection is needed against...
By Samantha Young AUGUST 24, 2022 Lori McClintock, the wife of U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), died in December after ingesting white mulberry leaf. In this fall 2003 photo, the couple are shown after casting ballots in Newbury Park, California. (NICK UT / AP) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The wife of a Northern California congressman died late...
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 17:40 EDT, 24 August 2022 | UPDATED: 18:03 EDT, 24 August 2022 Tattoo ink may contain toxic cancer-causing chemicals, a new study finds. Scientists at State University of New York (SUNY) found that nearly half of a 56-sample of tattoo inks they investigated had azo-compounds, which degenerate under ultra-violet light — emitted...
