by Monash University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A recent study by Monash University has found that proteins found naturally in tick saliva, called evasins, can be modified to block the activity of important proteins in human inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, asthma and multiple sclerosis. The study, conducted at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, showed...
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Low-value health care is common and expensive for individuals and society, accounting for up to 30% – as much as $101 billion annually—of health care spending in the U.S. The current scope and impact of low-value cardiovascular care is reviewed in a new American Heart Association Scientific...
by Christian Van Nieuwerburgh, Jolanta Burke, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Happiness is one of the most important goals in life. During the pandemic, it trended as the most searched word on Google. But here’s why the pursuit of happiness can be bad for you. It can make us more self-centered. The active pursuit of happiness can exacerbate individualistic...
by Institute for Basic Science Figure 1. Cancer cells tend to accumulate many mutations during their growth. These include single base substitutions, small insertion/deletions (InDel), and large chromosomal changes. Researchers made CRISPR-Cas9 reagents targeting tumor-specific InDel mutations that can induce numerous double-strand breaks in the DNA of cancer cells, effectively killing them. Because normal cells...
by European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, EULAR Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain EULAR, the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, has developed new recommendations for CVR management in people with gout, vasculitis, systemic sclerosis (SSc), myositis, mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). People with inflammatory...
by Delene Beeland, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Remember alpha, the first COVID-19 variant? It first appeared in Great Britain in late 2020. Alpha put the world on alert that mutations can change everything we thought we knew—within mere weeks—about what to expect from COVID-19. Back then, Carolina economist...
by Osaka University Summary of the research. Credit: Naoki Hosen Multiple myeloma (MM) is a largely incurable cancer of plasma cells with an extremely poor prognosis. However, investigators from Japan have recently found that a common component of amino acid transporters, CD98 heavy chain, represents an effective monoclonal antibody target in treating MM. In a...
by CSIRO Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a technique that addresses the challenge of transporting temperature-dependent vaccines, which researchers hope may increase access in rural and remote communities in Australia and developing countries. The World Health Organisation estimates that at least 50 percent of vaccines are wasted...
Pam Harrison February 17, 2022 The majority of Americans are not aware that alcohol consumption causes a variety of cancers, and especially do not consider wine and beer to have a link with cancer, suggest the results from a national survey. “Alcohol is a leading modifiable risk factor for cancer yet most Americans are unaware...
by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Fig. 1: Histone acetylome-wide association study of TB. Credit: DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-01049-w A study led by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Infectious Diseases Labs (ID Labs) has identified a gene, KCNJ15, that is associated with helping our immune...
