New findings suggest twins who survive the loss of their co-twin face an elevated risk of psychiatric disorders in the short and longer term. ELIFE The death of a twin, especially earlier in life, can increase the risk of their surviving twin being diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, finds a new study published today in...
Month: <span>July 2020</span>
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Scientists found a way to identify diseases by blood serum
Researchers developed a new dynamic light scattering method to determine the sizes of circulating immune complexes in blood serum PETER THE GREAT SAINT-PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS OF PETER THE GREAT ST. PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (SPBPU) IN COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES FROM TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (CHINA) DEVELOPED A NEW DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING METHOD TO DETERMINE THE SIZES OF…...
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Study finds that special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better
Effect persists even when glasses are not worn UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – DAVIS HEALTH JOHN S. WERNER OF UC DAVIS HEALTH HAS LED A STUDY OF GLASSES WITH SPECIAL FILTERS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS COLORBLINDNESS. view more CREDIT: UC REGENTS / UC DAVIS HEALTH A new UC Davis Eye Center study, conducted in collaboration with France’s...
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Not as gross as it sounds: predicting how bacteria in mucus affect human health
Inhale, exhale. Humans breathe between 17,000 to 23,000 times a day, on average. But for more than 70,000 children and young adults around the world, taking a breath can be a struggle because of a rare disease, cystic fibrosis. A gene that normally triggers a certain protein to move chloride, found in salt, to cell...
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New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
UW microbiologists discovered a bacterial toxin that, when engineered, is a key part of a gene editor that can make single-base changes in human mitochondria. The genome in mitochondria — the cell’s energy-producing organelles — is involved in disease and key biological functions, and the ability to precisely alter this DNA would allow scientists to...
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STUFF ( quercertin) IN CAPERS ACTIVATES KEY PROTEINS IN BRAIN AND HEART
A compound common in pickled capers, quercetin, activates proteins required for normal human brain and heart activity, researchers report. In a new study in Communications Biology, the researchers report that quercetin can directly regulate proteins required for bodily processes such as the heartbeat, thought, muscular contraction, and normal functioning of the thyroid, pancreas, and gastrointestinal...
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COVID-19 DRUG MAY CUT DEATH RISK BY 45% FOR SEVERE CASES
In a new study, patients who received single intravenous dose of tocilizumab were also more likely to leave the hospital or be off a ventilator within a month, despite double the risk of additional infection. Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received a single dose of a drug that calms an overreacting immune system were 45%...
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Vision scientists discover why humans literally don’t see eye to eye
by Yasmin Anwar, University of California – Berkeley We humans may not always see eye to eye on politics, religion, sports and other matters of debate. But at least we can agree on the location and size of objects in our physical surroundings. Or can we? Not according to new UC Berkeley research, recently published...
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Factors maximize impact of yoga, physical therapy on back pain in underserved population
Fear avoidance, pain medication use, and treatment expectations impact response to nonpharmaceutical treatments to relieve chronic low back pain BOSTON – New research shows that people with chronic low back pain (cLBP) have better results from yoga and physical therapy compared to reading evidence-based self-help materials. While this finding was consistent across many patient characteristics,...
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Study shows plant protein consumption can boost human lifespan
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute has found that older people who eat more plant protein as opposed to meat-based protein tend to live longer lives. In their paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the group describes their analysis of a...