by Thomas Jefferson University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among American men. Now, researchers have discovered key molecular players that drive prostate cancer to progress into a highly aggressive form of the disease called neuroendocrine prostate cancer that currently has no effective...
by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Xin-Yun Lu, MD, PhD, (center) with Graduate Student Kirstyn Denney (left) and Postdoctoral Fellow Yuting Chen, PhD, both coauthors on the new paper. Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University It’s clear that chronic stress can impact our behavior, leading to problems like depression, reduced interest in things that...
by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain Insufficient and disturbed sleep during the teenage years may heighten the subsequent risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), suggests a case-control study published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Clocking up enough hours of restorative sleep while young may help to ward off the condition, suggest...
by University of Liverpool Induced autophagy by rilmenidine perturbed polyQ aggregation. (a) Representative images of day 2 adult transgenic animals, expressing the intestinal specific autophagy reporter gene Pnhx-2::mCherry::lgg-1 showing increased autophagy, when exposed to varying concentrations of rilmenidine for 24 h compared to 1% DMSO vehicle. Arrows indicate autophagosome puncta formation. Scale bar = 20 μm. (b)...
Max Kozlov In this false-colour scanning electron microscope image, influenza virus particles (blue) stand ready to release from a burst epithelial cell (red).Credit: Lennart Nilsson, Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH, TT/SPL An analysis of about 450,000 electronic health records has found a link between infections from influenza and other common viruses and an elevated risk of...
If you were an astronaut nursing a monster headache en route to Mars, and the painkillers had run out 20 million miles back, you’d want a supply of synthetic cells handy to crank out some fresh pills. That’s the kind of future College of Biological Sciences researcher Kate Adamala is out to build. She belongs to a...
JANUARY 20TH, 2023 CONN HASTINGS GENETICS, MATERIALS, MEDICINE, SURGERY Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed centimeter-scale biobots that combine soft materials, mouse muscle tissue, and wireless electronic components. The tiny devices can be controlled remotely through optogenetics. The muscle within the devices forms an optogenetic actuator and creates movement when exposed to light....
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV BEER-SHEVA, Israel, January 23, 2023 – Anti-aging creams, shakes, exercises, you name it, you can read about it online. However, what does science have to say about aging? Ben-Gurion University of the Negev life sciences researcher Dr. Debra Toiber has uncovered what seems to be a key preventive measure of...
RICE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: RESEARCHERS IN THE LAB OF RICE’S XUE SHERRY GAO DISCOVERED A NEW CLASS OF DIELS-ALDERASES. CREDIT: PHOTO BY JEFF FITLOW/RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON – (Jan. 23, 2023) – Just as a choreographer’s notation tells a dancer to strike a particular pose, an enzyme newly discovered by Rice University scientists is able to tell...
by Brian Consiglio, University of Missouri MU researchers. Credit: University of Missouri Scientists have long sought to better understand the human body’s immune responses that occur during various diseases, including cancer and inflammatory diseases. In a recent study at the University of Missouri, Emma Teixeiro, an associate professor in the MU School of Medicine, and her...
