JULY 22, 2024 by Elana Gotkine Socioeconomic factors and deprivation are associated with persistently active rheumatoid arthritis (pactiveRA), according to a study published online July 14 in RMD Open. Maryam Adas, from the King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, and colleagues examined which biological and nonbiological factors are associated with pactiveRA or...
JULY 22, 2024 by Christine Yu, Pennsylvania State University KDR inhibition induces autophagic/lysosomal degradation of Tax. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49737-5A team of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine found a new target for treating diseases associated with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). They determined that blocking a class of enzymes...
NEWS RELEASE 22-JUL-2024 Reports and ProceedingsSOCIETY OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There is a potential connection between a diagnosis of certain gastrointestinal (GI) syndromes and the formation and rupture of intracranial (brain) aneurysms, according to research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 21st Annual Meeting. An intracranial aneurysm (IA) occurs...
JULY 22, 2024 by IOS Press Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain To date, Parkinson’s disease (PD) is diagnosed clinically and rather late in the course of the disease. There is an urgent need to find an objective, quantifiable biomarker for the diagnosis of this highly prevalent movement disorder. Researchers have now found initial evidence that a...
JULY 22, 2024 by University of Sheffield Microscopic analysis of skin sections retrieved on day 21 of experiment after H&E staining. Credit: Frontiers in Pharmacology (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1370833The key to curing male pattern baldness—a condition that affects up to 50% of men worldwide—could lie in a sugar that naturally occurs in the human body, according...
JULY 22, 2024 by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Karolina Grabowska from PexelsThe Stockholm3 blood test, developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports. The test produces significantly better results than the current PSA standard. Stockholm3, a...
By Dr. Chinta SidharthanReviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc. In a recent study published in the journal Allergy, a team of researchers in Austria conducted a longitudinal analysis among individuals who had not been vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to understand the changes in humoral and cellular immunity over ten months after the first severe...
JULY 19TH, 2024POSTED BY U. ARIZONA(Credit: Getty Images) TAGS : BODY WEIGHTFOODUNIVERSITY : UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Credit: Getty Images) New research suggests that consuming foods rich in beta-glucan, a type of fiber found in oats and barley, can reduce body weight and obesity. Ozempic—known generically as semaglutide—has taken the weight-loss market by storm, promising to...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS Patented method developed in the laboratory of Dr Sandro Ataide promises to accelerate the potential of genetic engineering already shown by CRISPR gene-editing technology. DNA – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) SeekRNA a ‘real game-changer’Scientists at the University of Sydney have developed a gene-editing tool with greater accuracy...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS Researchers have developed a ‘blood vessel-on-a-chip’ for heart disease with the potential to change the future of drug testing and development. The technology could also reduce our reliance on animal testing. An example of the transparent blood vessel on a chip. Image credit: University of Sydney A University of Sydney team...
