Health & Wellbeing By Paul McClureSeptember 06, 2024 Bacteria in the guts of some species of seabream have anti-aging propertiesDALL-E You might soon be buying anti-aging skincare products containing fish guts, thanks to a new study that found that the innards of two species of seabream possess compounds that fight wrinkles and age spots. There...
September 6, 2024 by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Ashani Weeraratna, Ph.D. Credit: Will Kirk/JHU Age-related changes in the fibroblasts, cells that create the skin’s structure, contribute to the development of aggressive, treatment-resistant melanoma in males, according to research in mice by the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The study appears in Cell. The...
Sep 6 2024 Researchers have created nanoscale robots which could be used to manage bleeds in the brain caused by aneurysms. Engineered magnetic nanorobots about 300nm in diameter. Image credit- Jian Wu The development could enable precise, relatively low-risk treatment of brain aneurysms, which cause around 500,000 deaths globally each year. The medical condition –...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS Early in his undergraduate studies in bioengineering, Sayo Eweje was thinking of a career in medicine. He was inspired by the idea of harnessing medical knowledge to improve patients’ lives, having grown up seeing his father do so as a gastroenterologist. However, his research experiences in college made him appreciate how...
MultimediaRelease 6-Sep-2024 The Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS) has developed the world’s most sensitive technology for detecting cancer mutant genes in blood Peer-Reviewed PublicationNational Research Council of Science & Technology image: Representative diagram of 3D nanoplasmonics-based technology for detecting mutant genes in blood Credit: Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) Dr. Min-young Lee and Dr....
September 5, 2024 by Genomic Press Targeting strategy to knock down the mouse HTR2A gene using shRNA and transduction efficiency in primary mouse cortical neurons. Credit: Genomic Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.61373/gp024r.0043Scientists at Cognigenics have made a significant advance in the field of neuroscience and mental health treatment. Their research, published in Genomic Psychiatry, demonstrates that...
September 5, 2024 by Chapman University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA new study published in Nature Communications examines how the brain initiates spontaneous actions. In addition to demonstrating how spontaneous action emerges without environmental input, this research has implications for the origins of slow ramping of neural activity before movement onset—a commonly-observed but poorly understood phenomenon....
September 5, 2024 by Rutgers University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new study reveals that young patients treated with psychiatric medications receive potentially dangerous combinations with concerning frequency. Researchers from Rutgers Health and other institutions recently analyzed New York State Medicaid records for more than 141,000 patients receiving any psychiatric medication. Nearly 400 of them had...
September 5, 2024 by Pasteur Institute Credit: CC0 Public DomainA total of seven individuals worldwide (two patients in Berlin and patients in London, Düsseldorf, New York, City of Hope and Geneva) are considered likely to have been cured or to be in long-term remission of HIV infection after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat...
September 5, 2024 by Eddy Duryea, University of Central Florida Description of plasmonic biosensor platform. (A) Schematic of integrated plasmonic biosensor platform. Top inset shows specificity of surface-functionalized DNA aptamer in presence of other interfering species, where the aptamer binds selectively to dopamine. Bottom inset shows a cartoon representation of the plasmonic biosensor. (B and...
