by Public Library of Science Artificial sweeteners may not be safe sugar alternatives. Credit: Mathilde Touvier (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artificial sweeteners reduce added sugar content and corresponding calories while maintaining sweetness. A study publishing March 24th in PLOS Medicine by Charlotte Debras and Mathilde Touvier at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and Sorbonne...
UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE IMAGE: MITOCHONDRIA (TUBULAR STRUCTURES) WITHIN THE CYTOSKELETON FILAMENTS OF NEURONS OBSERVED BY FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. CREDIT: MARINE LAPORTE Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders, is characterized by the spontaneous repetition of seizures caused by the hyperactivity of a group of neurons in the brain. Could we therefore reduce neuronal hyperactivity, and...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO SAN ANTONIO (March 24, 2022) — Blood levels of a biomarker called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) may uniquely aid prediction of dementia in Mexican Americans, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and collaborating institutions reported March 24. The...
YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Evidence of a relative to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease has been detected in human blood samples across New England, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. The findings add important new details to understanding the bacteria species, Borrelia miyamotoi, which was...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL Published in Molecular Psychiatry, a team of scientists from the University of Minnesota Medical School, University of Texas Health San Antonio, and the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) in Greece found that the disruption of a circadian clock gene may be involved in the development of...
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY Washington, DC – March 24, 2022 – Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem worldwide that threatens the efficacy of available treatments and can lead to extended hospital stays and increased mortality. Researchers have long sought ways to address the problem. Given that antibiotic use fuels resistance, reducing antibiotic use offers an appealing...
by Albert Einstein College of Medicine The Listeria-tetanus toxoid (TT) delivery system infecting tumor cells and macrophages in pancreatic cancer tumors in mice. Credit: B. Chellakkan Selvanesan, et al., Science Translational Medicine (2022) Pancreatic cancer is notoriously difficult to cure or even treat. Now, a new strategy devised by scientists at Albert Einstein College of...
by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain Drugs known as antidopaminergic antiemetics (ADAs) that are widely used to relieve nausea and vomiting caused, for instance, by migraine, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and after surgery are associated with an increased risk of ischaemic stroke, finds a study published by The BMJ today. The results show that all three...
by Mallory Locklear, Yale University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many countries around the world are experiencing shortages of tocilizumab, an immunosuppressive drug that has become the standard of care for treating severe cases of COVID-19. A new study co-led by researchers at Yale and the University of British Columbia, however, finds that using a lower...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center report evidence from lab experiments that a chemical derived from a compound found abundantly in broccoli and other cruciferous plants may offer a potentially new and potent weapon against the viruses that cause COVID-19 and the common cold....
