Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM “NOW THAT WE ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS INFLAMMATION STARTS, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PREVENT THIS PROCESS, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF LIMITING INFLAMMATION AND TREATING DISEASE,” SAID RESEARCHER LAURA E. NEWMAN, PHD.CREDIT: COURTESY NEWMAN LAB Researchers have discovered how “leaky” mitochondria – the powerhouses of...
By SHERYL BARRINGER, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MARCH 13, 2023 A human fungal zombie from the TV show ‘The Last of Us.’ Credit: Liane Hentscher/HBO Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us,’ but fungi in flour have been making people sick for a long time. In the HBO series “The...
Diana Kwon Illustration by Dalbert B. Vilarino Hundreds of scientists around the world are looking for ways to treat heart attacks. But few started where Hedva Haykin has: in the brain. Haykin, a doctoral student at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, wants to know whether stimulating a region of the brain...
This glowing microneedle test could catalyze a transition from blood-based diagnostics to a stick-on patch. A RIVER OF biological information flows just beneath the outermost layers of your skin, in which a hodgepodge of proteins squeeze past each other through the interstitial fluid surrounding your cells. This “interstitium” is an expansive and structured space, making it,...
by Scott Gilbert, Pennsylvania State University The winter cold and flu season may try to knock out your new year’s plans to get or stay healthy, but the good news is you can fight back. Dr. Jayson Loeffert, a sports medicine physician at Penn State Health, said it’s typically okay to continue your regular exercise...
