Sequencing technologies are enabling a deeper analysis of the gut’s microbiome. Researchers can now explore what our microbial inhabitants are doing and how they contribute to, or protect from, disease. investigator of the Human Microbiome Bioactives Resource (HMBR), which provides platforms and methods to integrate 16S sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and meta-metabolomics for microbiome discovery....
by Monash University Regional fractional expansion of the lung since the beginning of the breath is characterized as a fraction of the XV voxel. Coronal slices of the expansion at peak inspiration are shown for (a) a β-ENaC mouse (M3) and (b) a healthy littermate (M9). Credit: Monash University World-first research led by Monash University...
A research team from Yale and Baylor College of Medicine has completed the largest single-cell analysis to date of lungs affected by Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), revealing how cells change in response to the disease and identifying previously unknown cell types. The findings, published in the issue of Science Advances, deepen understanding of IPF and...
In a new study, patients who received single intravenous dose of tocilizumab were also more likely to leave the hospital or be off a ventilator within a month, despite double the risk of additional infection. Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received a single dose of a drug that calms an overreacting immune system were 45%...
Researchers have developed a way to pull HIV out of the latent reservoir making the virus visible to the immune system and providing the potential to be killed by treatment. Part of what has made HIV infection so difficult to cure, is that once the virus enters the body, some of it hides dormant inside...
by Charlotte Hsu, University at Buffalo Colored lines show the paths of crawling fruit fly larvae. Larvae with a mutant form of the human huntingtin protein that causes Huntington’s disease crawled poorly (center) compared with normal larvae (left). But when larvae carrying the Huntington’s disease protein also produced extra quantities of the Rab4 protein, crawling...
For NASA, making sure astronauts are healthy while they’re away from our home planet is a top priority. From experiments on the International Space Station to aeronautics research, NASA programs are developing new technologies that can improve fitness, treat disease, and save lives. From pocket-sized labs to next-level stethoscopes, here are a few examples of...
Malone Mukwende, a student at St George’s, London has written a handbook Future doctor said medical schools don’t teach how illnesses appear on dark skin It comes as 186,000 people signed petition to urge doctors to be trained in how rashes present on BAME people too A black medical student has created a handbook for...
by Cornell University Across the globe, approximately 50 million people are living with dementia. The two most common forms are Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which develop when neurons in specific parts of the brain stop functioning—triggering memory loss and other behavioral or personality changes. Without a cure, the World Health Organization predicts...
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, YONG LOO LIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A GIANT CELL RESULTING FROM BURKHOLDERIA INFECTION UNDERGOING ABORTIVE CELL DIVISION. PART 1: THE GENETIC MATERIAL IN THE GIANT CELL IS HIGHLY CONDENSED, SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENS DURING NORMAL CELL… view more CREDIT: DR GAN YUNN HWEN Burkholderia pseudomallei is a bacterium in the soil...
