UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) IMAGE: ZHIGAO WANG, PHD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES, IN HIS LABORATORY AT THE USF HEALTH HEART INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. IMAGES ON THE MONITOR DEPICT TWO TYPES OF CELL DEATH: APOPTOSIS (LEFT) AND NECROPTOSIS. CREDIT: USF HEALTH/UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 18, 2022) – Cell death...
CACTUS COMMUNICATIONS IMAGE: RESEARCHERS HAVE DEVISED A METHOD TO ANALYZE THE EFFECTIVE INGREDIENT IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE FORMULATIONS, CONTRIBUTING TO RESEARCH IN QUALITY CONTROL AND IDENTIFICATION OF ANALYTES IN COMPLEX HERBAL REMEDIES. CREDIT: PROFESSOR XUE QIAO Rooted in ancient knowledge and principles, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used to treat many diseases, sparking the...
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON – Results from an international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 clinical trial indicate that adding the androgen-receptor inhibitor darolutamide to androgen-deprivation therapy and chemotherapy prolongs the survival of men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, a disease that is fatal in most cases. The study, which was conducted by a team led by investigators at...
by University of Helsinki Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Helsinki shows that information about personal genetic risk for cardiovascular disease motivates individuals to take better care of their health. This is the first comprehensive study assessing the impact of overall disease risk information based on both genetic and traditional...
by Dartmouth College FIG. 1. Percentages of adults reporting daily death in household, expected percentage in 2020, and daily confirmed COVID deaths in India, 1 June 2020 to 1 July 2021.COVID Tracker deaths (red line, left vertical scale) represent COVID deaths reported daily (smoothed for rolling 7-day averages) at age 35 or older, less a...
by Centenary Institute Granuloma histopathology is accelerated during M. abscessus R infection compared to S. A Stereotypical examples of bacterial lesions from DAPI-stained sections from adult zebrafish infected with M. abscessus expressing tdTomato. Top row infected with the rough variant, bottom row infected with the smooth variant, timepoints as indicated. Images are representative of the...
by University of Copenhagen Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health The human gut contains trillions of bacteria, collectively called the gut microbiome, which may have positive and negative effects on human health. When in balance they function as an inner chemistry factory...
by Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Credit: Public Domain Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) shed new light on how myelin loss might underpin aberrant brain activity which have been observed in people with multiple sclerosis. This study, published in eLife, suggests that myelination, however patchy on specific interneurons, is required to reach their full...
by Victoria University of Wellington Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington Ph.D. graduate who was based at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute (GMRI) has found a potential new source of help for colon cancer patients—medications used to treat hypertension, or high blood pressure. Dr. Matthew Munro, who graduated last year...
by Vanderbilt University Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.12.027 Stressful experiences can lead to adaptive or detrimental behaviors. Understanding how stress can affect our brains can help understand basic brain function and is also essential to discerning causes and treatments for some diseases. A group of researchers led by Jeffrey Conn, professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt,...
