UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA IMAGE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THE EXPERTS JESÚS PLANAGUMÀ, MARC CARCELES CORDON AND JOSEP DALMAU. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken by a psychiatric disorder since it causes psychoses and other behaviour alterations. Despite having these similarities, the illness does not respond to common antipsychotic treatments. A...
NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS IMAGE: SNAPSHOT FROM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF COMPOUND 2C BOUND TO TUBULIN. A SYSTEM OF HYDROGEN BONDS WAS FORMED THAT INVOLVES THE LIGAND, PROTEIN RESIDUES ASN349 AND LYS352 AND A WATER. A group of Moscow scientists has discovered and explained the activity mechanism of a new anti-cancer molecule — diphenylisoxazole....
SHINSHU UNIVERSITY IMAGE: 30% DIETARY RESTRICTION SUPPRESSES LIVER TUMORS FROM FATTY LIVER. Liver cancer from too much fat accumulation in the liver has been increasing in many countries including Japan. In order to change this unfortunate state of affairs, it is important to improve the prognosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Most often the cause...
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE IMAGE: THE NUS RESEARCH TEAM LED BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YAN NING (LEFT) AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZHOU KANG (RIGHT) HAS DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATED UPCYCLING PROCESS TO PRODUCE HIGH-VALUE AMINO ACIDS FROM WASTE. The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end up in landfills. These waste...
SAY COMMUNICATIONS LUGANO, 29 October, 2020 – Disruptive innovations in psoriasis are leading the way at EADV’s 29th Congress, EADV Virtual. New data published today shows the first clinical evidence of modulating systemic inflammation by oral delivery of a non-living single strain commensal microbe. This new therapeutic class brings hope for a completely new way...
EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: ILLUSTRATION OF THE NANOBIOLOGIC-BASED TRAINED IMMUNITY PROCESS ELIMINATING TUMOROUS CELLS. Until recently, it was believed that the innate immune system, the body’s first line of defense, lacked the ability to remember pathogens like the adaptive immune system. A ground-breaking study involving researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology, as well as multiple institutes...
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE New York, NY (October 29, 2020) — A groundbreaking new type of cancer immunotherapy developed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai trains the innate immune system to help it eliminate tumor cells through the use of nanobiologics, tiny materials bioengineered from natural...
Multi-lab research program analyzes cerebrospinal fluid molecules to seek diagnostic and progression markers as well as treatment targets. A major scientific effort is underway to characterize the proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid to improve diagnostics and clinical monitoring assays and discover potential therapies, for Alzheimer’s disease. Several research labs at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Stanford...
Both eczema and psoriasis are inflammatory skin diseases that affect many individuals. Now, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and KTH in Sweden have made progress in mapping new candidate genes for these hereditary skin diseases. This may in the long run open up new ways of treating the diseases. The findings are published in the Journal of Allergy...
by VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) Representative images of embryonic myosin heavy chain (eMyHC) expression in TA muscle 6 days after CTX injury. A team headed by Prof. Massimiliano Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology), in collaboration with Dr. Emanuele Berardi and Dr. Min Shang, revealed a new metabolic dialogue between inflammatory cells and...
