by Lachlan Gilbert, University of New South Wales It is more difficult to learn lessons from harmful behaviour such as excessive drinking when our story for why we are suffering is not correct. Credit: Shutterstock Misunderstanding the link between our actions and consequences could be what makes giving up harmful habits so difficult, study shows. People...
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH VIDEO: INFECTION OF MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS BY A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MUTANT OF PHAGE FIONNBHARTH. THREE STEPS IN THE INFECTION PROCESS CAN BE SEEN: 1) A SINGLE PHAGE PARTICLE BINDS TO THE BACTERIAL CELL, AND IS SEEN AS A RED DOT 0.42 SECONDS INTO THE VIDEO. 2) TWO SECONDS INTO THE MOVIE, GREEN FLUORESCENCE...
by Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weeks. But some people—even those who had mild versions of the disease—have symptoms that last weeks or months after an initial COVID infection. These ongoing health problems, called post-COVID conditions (PCC), post-COVID-19 syndrome, long COVID-19, and post-acute...
by Weizmann Institute of Science How ketamine works: A schematic representation of ketamine’s newly discovered and previously known mechanisms of action. Ketamine molecules directly inhibit a receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate (top left), generating a cascade of biochemical reactions that increases the expression of potassium channels (KCNQ) in neurons belonging to the glutamate network in...
by Centenary Institute Granuloma histopathology is accelerated during M. abscessus R infection compared to S. A Stereotypical examples of bacterial lesions from DAPI-stained sections from adult zebrafish infected with M. abscessus expressing tdTomato. Top row infected with the rough variant, bottom row infected with the smooth variant, timepoints as indicated. Images are representative of the...
by University of Oklahoma Min Li, Ph.D. Credit: OU Medicine With an overall survival rate of 9% for those diagnosed, pancreatic cancer remains exceedingly difficult to treat. However, the patient’s primary tumor typically isn’t what leads to death—it is the cancer’s ability to evade detection and metastasize to other organs. A team of researchers at the OU College...
