by Gillian Rutherford, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Biochemist Joanne Lemieux worked with three other University of Alberta researchers on a new study showing that a drug that cures deadly peritonitis in cats also works well enough against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 to fast-track it into human clinical trials. Credit: University...
In the near future, fatty liver disease is projected to become the major reason for liver transplants. A new study in mice has found that stevia extract can improve signs of the condition. Stevia extract may help combat nonalcoholic, or fatty, liver disease. Fatty liver disease, or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, involves the liver being made up...
The mammalian cell lines that are engineered to produce high-value recombinant-protein drugs also produce unwanted proteins that push up the overall cost to manufacture these drugs. These same proteins can also lower drug quality. In a new paper in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Technical University of Denmark...
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Most of us tend to think of sugar as a temptation that threatens our health. The reality is, however, that sugar is an essential component of the human body; it covers the surface of our cells and proteins and tunes the behavior and function of...
