UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: RECONSTRUCTED MICROSCOPY IMAGE OF A BACTERIOPHAGE, WHICH IS A VIRUS THAT ATTACKS BACTERIA. Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates — that’s the job of bacteria in our large intestines. UC Riverside scientists have just discovered a new group of viruses that attack these bacteria. The viruses, and the...
Artificial intelligence is going to change everything, because it can analyse vast amounts of data very quickly and very accurately. It can also pay attention to the detail in a way that humans cannot match. Now scientists at Newcastle University want to employ AI to diagnose neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s from eye...
by Andre Salles, Argonne National Laboratory A new glutamate-sensing material could lead to new insights into the workings of the human brain. What happens when you bring three scientists of diverse disciplines together, and give them the resources of two of the country’s top research facilities? In this case, they discover a new material that may help scientists...
by University of East Anglia Fecal transplants could one day be used as a therapy to restore cognitive function in the elderly—according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the University of Florence and the Quadram Institute. A new study published today shows how fecal transplants from older to younger mice altered their gut microbiome, which in...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Abnormal neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) — a buildup of tau protein in parts of the brain — helped Edward Lee, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and other Penn Medicine scientists uncover this new form of dementia. Credit: Edward Lee A new, rare...
by The Scripps Research Institute Scientists at Scripps Research have comprehensively mapped how a key class of proteins within cells regulates signals coming in from cell surface receptors. The study reveals, among other things, that people commonly have variants in these proteins that cause their cells to respond differently when the same cell receptor is stimulated—offering a plausible explanation for why people’s...
by Public Library of Science Dental care. Pathogens found in tissues that surround the teeth contribute to a highly aggressive type of oral cancer, according to a study published 1st October in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Yvonne Kapila of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. In addition, the study showed that oral cancer formation...
AARHUS UNIVERSITY Drugs to lower blood pressure of the type ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers reduce the mortality rate of influenza and pneumonia. This is the main conclusion of a new reassuring study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which Christian Fynbo Christiansen and a number of Danish colleagues are behind....
by University of Arizona Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, works in his laboratory at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. The results of a recent study moved University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers one step closer to developing effective vaccinations against flaviviruses, which infect more than 400 million people a year with diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, West Nile,...
FORSYTH INSTITUTE IMAGE: FOR THE STUDY, DR. ALPDOGAN KANTARCI, HIS PHD STUDENT DR. EMMANUEL ALBUQUERQUE, AND THEIR TEAM REMOVED STEM CELLS FROM PREVIOUSLY EXTRACTED WISDOM TEETH AND PLACED THE STEM CELLS ONTO PETRI DISHES. Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is a serious infection that affects nearly 50 percent of Americans aged 30 years...
