by Rachel Curtis, Australian National University Dr Paula Gonzalez Figueroa. Credit: Australian National University Researchers have discovered a function in the immune system that could hold the key to treating allergic conditions like asthma and stop life-threatening anaphylaxis. Experts from The Australian National University (ANU) have unearthed a natural way the body prevents autoimmune disease and allergies....
by University of Liverpool Fig. 1 Plasma mediators at the time of study enrollment demonstrated a broad exaggerated immune response in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Clustered heatmap of 33 immune mediators in plasma samples collected from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at the time of study enrolment. Missing mediator data were imputed and values were scaled within...
SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI Effective, specific, with a reversible and non-harmful action: the identikit of the perfect biomaterial seems to correspond to graphene flakes, the subject of a new study carried out by SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) of Barcelona and the...
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Aspirin is an established, safe, and low-cost medication in long-standing common use in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and in the past a pain relief and fever reducing medication. The use of aspirin was very popular during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic, several decades before in-vitro confirmation of its activity against RNA...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS IMAGE: IN RESEARCH PUBLISHED ONLINE FEB. 19 IN THE JOURNAL SCIENCE ADVANCES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CHEMIST DR. JIE ZHENG AND HIS COLLEAGUES SHOW HOW GOLD NANOPARTICLES COULD PLAY A KEY ROLE IN A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST TO DETECT ACUTE LIVE CANCER EARLIER THAN CURRENT METHODS. FOUR SAMPLES OF...
by Washington University School of Medicine A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that whole genome sequencing is at least as accurate and often better than conventional genetic tests that help determine the treatment for blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Pictured is a bone marrow...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Above illustration shows a neuron (green) ensheathed by an oligodendrocyte (purple) with “activated” genetic material (DNA) in each cell’s nucleus. Differences in each cell type’s active DNA may underlie human memory. Credit: Melissa Logies UT Southwestern scientists have identified key genes involved in brain waves that are pivotal for encoding memories....
by Osaka City University The subiculum in the rat brain is routing three types of spatial information. Credit: Takuma Kitanishi The hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with information associated with spatial navigation and memory. For example, you are driving and despite the changing environment of different cars going at varying speeds,...
by Northwestern University An early clinical trial in individuals with the deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, showed an experimental spherical nucleic acid (SNA) drug developed by Northwestern University scientists was able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and trigger the death of tumor cells. This is the first time a nanotherapeutic has been shown to cross the blood-brain...
CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLÓGICAS (CNIO) IMAGE: WHEN TRF1 IS PHOSPHORYLATED BY AKT, TELOMERES ARE NORMAL (TOP); IN THE CELL LINES WHERE AKT DOESN’T MODIFY TRF1, TELOMERES ARE SHORTER AND HAVE A LOWER POTENTIAL TO GENERATE TUMOURS(BOTTOM). CREDIT: PLOS GENETICS The Telomeres and Telomerase Group led by Maria A. Blasco at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre...
