NEWS RELEASE 25-JUN-2024 Peer-Reviewed Publication VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: CO-CORRESPONDING AUTHOR AYUSH GIRI, PHD. CREDIT: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER A genetic variation common in people of African ancestry is associated with an increased risk of complications from diabetes, including diabetic retinopathy, according to a report published June 25 in the journal Nature Medicine. The...
by Rockefeller University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into severe disease, disability, and even death in others. A new paper published in Nature may explain the genetic underpinnings of this dichotomy. The researchers demonstrated that mice with gene variants...
by University of Oxford Association between trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome. Data from UK Biobank. (A) Overlap between trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome in UK Biobank, annotated with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures (OPCS) codes that were used...
by The Scripps Research Institute Tendon-specific R2482H Piezo1 enhances jumping power and maximum running speed in mice. (A) Representative images of jumping in WT, Piezo1systemic-mut/+, Piezo1tendon-mut/+, and Piezo1muscle-mut/+mice. (B) Maximum jumping distance of each mouse. Male and female. n = 10 of each. Error bars represent SDs; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P <...
UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI IMAGE: ALMOST ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION OF JAPAN IS ALLERGIC TO POLLEN FROM JAPANESE CEDARS. ALTHOUGH IMMUNOTHERAPY CAN GREATLY ALLEVIATE THE SYMPTOMS IN MOST PATIENTS AFTER PROLONGED TREATMENT, A CONSIDERABLE PERCENTAGE STILL DO NOT RESPOND FAVORABLY. CREDIT: THIS IMAGE WAS MARKED WITH A CC BY-SA 2.0 LICENSE. FOR REUSE, CREDIT THE...
by University of California, Irvine Credit: CC0 Public Domain While the word “mutation” may conjure up alarming notions, a mutation in brain immune cells serves a positive role in protecting people against Alzheimer’s disease. Now University of California, Irvine biologists have discovered the mechanisms behind this crucial process. Their paper appears in the journal Alzheimer’s and...
by Vanderbilt University Medical Center From left, Scott Borinstein, MD, Ph.D., Jonathan Mosley, MD, Ph.D., and Sara Van Driest, MD, Ph.D., found that some healthy African Americans are having bone marrow biopsies they don’t need. Credit: Erin O. Smith/VUMC A gene variant that lowers white blood cell levels and is common in individuals with African ancestry...
New research from the University of Eastern Finland shows that the APP gene variant protecting against Alzheimer’s disease significantly decreases plasma beta-amyloid levels in a population cohort. This is a very significant discovery, as many on-going drug trials in the field of Alzheimer’s disease focus on decreasing beta-amyloid levels in the brain tissue. According to...
