UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG IMAGE: TO FIGHT CANCER BY A NEWLY DEVELOPED SUBSTANCE SHREDDING CARCINOGENIC AURORA PROTEINS: THIS IS THE AIM OF A NEW STUDY BY SCIENTISTS AT UNIVERSITIES IN WÜRZBURG AND FRANKFURT. The villain in this drama has a pretty name: Aurora – Latin for dawn. In the world of biochemistry, however, Aurora (more precisely:...
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PULLMAN, Wash. – A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn babe. The discovery by Washington State University researchers has implications for better skin wound treatment as well as preventing some of the aging process in skin. In a study, published in the journal eLife on Sept....
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES IMAGE: SIMPLE DIAGRAM SHOWING CATALASE KICK STARTING REACTION THAT CONVERTS HYDROGEN PEROXIDE INTO WATER AND OXYGEN Researchers from UCLA and China have found that catalase, a naturally occurring enzyme, holds potential as a low-cost therapeutic drug to treat COVID-19 symptoms and suppress the replication of coronavirus inside the body. A study...
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL Girls – but not boys – who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behaviour and attentiveness in early adolescence, suggests a new Canadian study published in Preventative Medicine. “Girls who do regular extracurricular sports between ages 6 and 10 show fewer symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at age...
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR. FARROKH ALEMI, PROFESSOR OF HEALTH INFORMATICS, LED THE STUDY THAT FOUND THAT SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ARE PREDICTORS OF SUICIDE OR SELF-HARM, BUT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE CAUSE. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States – and in some age groups, it’s even higher – the second leading...
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON – Sitagliptin, a drug to lower blood sugar in type 2 diabetes, also improves survival in diabetic patients hospitalized with COVID-19, suggests a multicenter observational study in Italy. Patients given sitagliptin in addition to insulin had a mortality rate of 18 percent as compared with 37 percent in matched patients receiving...
The University at Buffalo has received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new, portable breast-imaging system that has the potential to better identify breast cancer. Called a dual scan mammoscope (DSM), the device combines light and ultrasound technology to better screen patients with dense breast tissue...
Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away – from the inside out – portions of plaques that cause heart attacks. Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, and a team of scientists created a “Trojan Horse” nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and...
The research reveals how transplanting those gut bacteria into other mice can cause changes to sleep patterns in the recipient mice. The study shows the gut microbiome is a major role player in sleep regulation, says David Gozal, chair of Child Health at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. This ultimately could translate into treatments that target the...
Researchers from Europe think one of the most puzzling coronavirus symptoms might have an unexpected silver lining. The sudden loss of smell and taste is associated with a better COVID-19 prognosis, doctors from France and Belgium concluded. The scientists studied hundreds of COVID-19 patients, separating them into four groups depending on the severity of the illness. They said...
