06 September 2024 ‘Sneeze neurons’ activated by triggers such as pollen or a viral infection send an achoo signal, whereas cough neurons induce a hack. The cough triggered by pollen and other allergens is activated by neurons distinct from those that lead to a sneeze.Credit: Getty Does a whiff of pollen trigger a sneeze or...
In animal models, even low stimulation currents can sometimes still cause electrographic seizures, researchers found.David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and MemoryPublication Date:September 6, 2024 Caption:In hope of finding a thalamic stimulation current level that wouldn’t trigger seizures, researchers progressively titrated current (horizontal axis).Credits:Image: Brown Lab/MIT Picower Institute The idea of electrically stimulating...
News Release 9-Sep-2024 Suppression of an enzyme might allow melanocytes to recover Peer-Reviewed PublicationOsaka Metropolitan University image: A graphical representation illustrates what might be occurring in undamaged and damaged skin. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Skin pigmentation disorders affect people across the world. One of them, vitiligo, is said to have a worldwide incidence of 1-2%....
News Release 9-Sep-2024 University of Michigan researchers use propofol to uncover the interactions between the thalamus and cortex that underlie consciousness Peer-Reviewed PublicationMichigan Medicine – University of Michigan In hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, propofol is a drug of choice, widely used to sedate patients for their comfort or render them fully unconscious...
News Release 9-Sep-2024 Peer-Reviewed PublicationUniversity of Virginia Health System image: Fascinating new work by the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Marina Weiler, PhD, and colleagues explores the complex relationship between altered states of consciousness and empathy. Credit: UVA Health Out-of-body experiences, such as near-death experiences, can have a “transformative” effect on people’s ability to...
September 9, 2024 by University of Michigan Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image GalleryResearchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have uncovered a key reason that a typically normal protein goes awry and fuels cancer. They found that the protein NSD2 alters the function of the androgen receptor, an important regulator of...
Good News Network Mice on the right display graying and hair loss – Credit: MRC Laboratory of Medical Science / Duke-NUS Medical SchoolScientists have discovered that ‘switching off’ a protein called IL-11 can significantly increase the healthy lifespan of mice by almost 25%. The UK researchers at Medical Research Council Laboratory and Imperial College London,...
07 September 2024ByCarly Cassella (Derek Berwin/Getty Images) The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancer cases, but this isn’t a sexually transmitted infection that just one half of the population needs to worry about. Researchers from Argentina have found strains of HPV which put people at high risk of cancer...
By Eötvös Loránd University September 8, 2024 Scientists have identified a “mitochondrial epigenetic clock” involving 6mA in mtDNA, which may revolutionize aging research by providing new insights into lifespan regulation and potential interventions for healthier aging.Building on their groundbreaking research in epigenetics and transposable elements related to aging, scientists at Eötvös Loránd University have achieved...
— Alzheimer’s may be driven by multicellular communities, analysis suggests by Judy George, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage TodaySeptember 3, 2024 Key TakeawaysTwo distinct pathways of brain aging emerged in a cellular analysis of post-mortem brain tissue.One trajectory led to Alzheimer’s disease, the other to an alternative brain aging pathway.Cellular communities, not singular cell subpopulations, may...
