Peer-Reviewed Publication GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY THIS PICTURE ILLUSTRATES AN EXAMPLE OF GUT MICROBIOTA COMPOSITION DICTATING HOW RESIDENT LUNG ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES (AM) RESPOND TO VIRAL INFECTION. THE PRESENCE OF SEGMENTED FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA, A COMMENSAL MICROBE PRESENT IN SOME MICE, REPROGRAMS AM GENE EXPRESSION, INCREASING COMPLEMENT EXPRESSION AND PHAGOCYTOSIS, THEREBY ENABLING AM TO ENGULF AND DESTROY VIRAL...
Vertex’s pain drug succeeds in late-stage studies, marking major breakthrough in search for new, non-opioid medicinesLei Lei WuNews ReporterAn experimental non-opioid drug lowered pain levels in a series of pivotal studies, according to the drug’s developer Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which means a new, non-addictive type of pain medicine could soon be on the market. In two...
By LUNENFELD-TANENBAUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE Researchers have conducted a study revealing that post-meal insulin surges might indicate good metabolic health, challenging the previously held belief that they are harmful. The study, which focused on long-term cardiometabolic implications in new mothers, found that higher corrected insulin response (CIR) levels are associated with better beta-cell function and a...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Cambridge scientists may have discovered a new way in which fasting helps reduce inflammation – a potentially damaging side-effect of the body’s immune system that underlies a number of chronic diseases. In research published in Cell Reports, the team describes how fasting raises levels of a chemical in the blood...
New research has revealed how light can be used to destroy infectious coronavirus particles that contaminate surfaces.Scientists are interested in how environments, such as surgeries, can be thoroughly disinfected from viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Coronavirus – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) SARS-CoV-2 viral particles are composed of...
By TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS Scanning electron micrograph of human microbiome sample. (Science Photo Library/Canva)Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects. “It’s insane,” says University of North Carolina cell biologist Mark Peifer, who was not involved in the study,...
Using a DNA-based scaffold carrying viral proteins, researchers created a vaccine that provokes a strong antibody response against SARS-CoV-2Peer-Reviewed Publication MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Using a virus-like delivery particle made from DNA, researchers from MIT and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard have created a vaccine that can induce a strong antibody response...
Musk said the first product from the brain-science startup is called Telepathy and it will let people control their phones “just by thinking.” Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and X, at a symposium in Krakow, Poland on Jan. 22.Beata Zawrzel / APBy David IngramTech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that his brain-science startup company,...
Peer-Reviewed Publication NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A new study in mice shows that replacement of a dysfunctional gene could prolong survival in some people with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a rare inherited disorder in which the muscular walls of the heart progressively weaken and put patients at risk of...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A weight loss intervention in people with type 2 diabetes was found to alter levels of cancer-related proteins, according to the findings of a new University of Bristol-led study. The study, published in eBioMedicine, is the first to show that weight loss in people recently diagnosed with diabetes can change...
