by University of California, San Francisco Low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diets, which have attracted public interest in recent years for their proposed benefits in lowering inflammation and promoting weight loss and heart health, have a dramatic impact on the microbes residing in the human gut, collectively referred to as the microbiome, according to a new UC...
by University of New Mexico Researchers examine the effectiveness of consuming hemp oil extracted from the whole Cannabis plant using a chronic neuropathic pain animal model. Researchers at The University of New Mexico (UNM) showed that legal Cannabis hemp oil reduced mechanical pain sensitivity 10-fold for several hours in mice with chronic post-operative neuropathic pain....
by University of Utah When things get rough, many Americans turn to prescription pills. About one in eight over the age of 12 take antidepressants for mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, and a quarter of those have done so for 10 years or more, according to a 2017 study by the National Center...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT scientists have identified a potential new strategy for treating Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that is the leading heritable cause of intellectual disability and autism. In a study of mice, the researchers showed that inhibiting an enzyme called GSK3 alpha reversed many of the behavioral and cellular features of...
Expanding the Organismal Proteostasis Network: Linking Systemic Stress Signaling with the Innate Immune Response Jay Miles Ruth Scherz-Shouval Patricija van Oosten-Hawle Open AccessPublished:July 11, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2019.06.009 PlumX Metrics Previous Article Nature and Regulation of Protein Folding on th … Next Article Analysis and Interpretation of Protein Post-Translational M … Highlights Keywords The Cellular and Organismal Proteostasis...
by Cedric Ricks, University of Cincinnati Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, shown in the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute. Credit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative + Brand A University of Cincinnati researcher says a study of COVID-19 patients shows loss of the sense of smell is most likely to occur by the third day of infection with the...
A metallic taste in the mouth, also called dysgeusia or parageusia, is a taste disorder in which a person perceives the taste of metal even though nothing is in the mouth. It can sometimes occur alongside fatigue, which is a constant feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy. A metallic taste by itself may be...
Lauren Chase Lauren Chase is on the Research team at GoodRx. Posted on May 18, 2020 Key takeaways: Popular brand and generic rescue inhalers and maintenance inhalers are currently in shortage. Fills for all inhalers peaked the week of March 15 right after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, but they’ve since dropped — by more...
Made from viral proteins, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is composed of synthetic viral mRNA. These molecules are injected into people and cellular protein-making machines, called ribosomes, read and translate the mRNA. It’s these proteins that then trigger an immune response. Credit: The Conversation, CC BY-SA Early morning on May 18, Moderna, a biotechnology company, revealed the...
Stroke is a medical emergency. The faster you get treatment, the better your chances are of recovering. Mayo Clinic experts say women who have stroke symptoms should not delay seeking treatment. They say some women don’t realize the symptoms could be life-threatening, and don’t get the care they need in time. In this Mayo Clinic...
