HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE IMAGE: CLINT MASON, JULIE FEUSIER, AND SASI ARUNACHALAM CREDIT: HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE (FOR MASON AND FEUSIER) AND ST. JUDE (FOR ARUNACHALAM) SALT LAKE CITY – Utah researchers report significant new insights into the development of blood cancers. In work published today in Blood Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, scientists describe...
Jason Mast Editor Over the last decade, drugmakers have proven JAK inhibitors can treat a smattering of immune-related diseases ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to Covid-19. Now Eli Lilly has pulled out a new one. Lilly and its biotech partner Incyte announced Wednesday that their JAK inhibitor baricitinib effectively regrew patients’ hair in a Phase III...
by KU Leuven The observational study suggests that the green tea supplements only affect facial development when they are administered in the early stages of life. Credit: KU Leuven A new study led by Belgian and Spanish researchers published in Scientific Reports adds evidence about the potential benefits of green tea extracts in Down syndrome. The researchers...
by Adrienne Williamson, Medical Xpress CGRP receptor signaling complex structure. Visualization provided by Patrick M. Sexton, PhD. A research team with members from Monash University, the ARC Centre for Cryo-electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins, the University of Tokyo and the University of Otago have determined the shape and kinetics of an important cell surface (membrane) receptor called...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain At the beginning of an immune response, a molecule known to mobilize immune cells into the bloodstream, where they home in on infection sites, rapidly shifts position, a new study shows. Researchers say this indirectly amplifies the attack on foreign microbes or the body’s own tissues. Past studies had shown...
Type of cholesterol produced as we consume food is a stronger predictor of health risk than the more commonly tested “bad” cholesterol, study shows. University of Alberta researchers have found a new, more effective way to measure future heart disease and diabetes risk in youth. By testing the blood for remnant cholesterol (RC), made by the body...
For decades, antibiotics have helped hold tuberculosis back, saving untold millions of lives. But their limits are being seriously tested as the bacterium’s tendency to mutate has led to a steady rise in drug-resistant strains. Without new drugs, scientists fear that tuberculosis, deemed largely a controllable disease, may not remain so. In search of new...
by University of Leicester Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10 kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today. Led by Melanie Davies, Professor of Diabetes Medicine at...
Adolescents who vape cannabis are at greater risk for respiratory symptoms indicative of lung injury than teens who smoke cigarettes or marijuana, or vape nicotine, a new University of Michigan study suggests. The result challenges conventional wisdom about vaping nicotine, says the study’s principal investigator, Carol Boyd, the Deborah J. Oakley Collegiate Professor Emerita at...
Michele Cohen Marill March 01, 2021 Late one night in early February, Jen Gunter, MD, was scrolling online when she discovered a new “feminine hygiene” product being marketed for teen girls. The new vanilla-clementine-scented wipes and cleansers with confetti-colored packaging and a cute name (OMV!) irked Gunter because they are designed for girls to use to “freshen” their...
