by University of California, Irvine “Our study shows that interdisciplinary intervention programs significantly reduced glucose levels and improved quality of life for patients with type 2 diabetes taking five or more medications a day,” says co-corresponding author Joyce Yu-Chia Lee, UCI clinical professor of health sciences. Credit: School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences / UCI...
By Derya Ozdemir Mar 10, 2022 A newly identified class of T cells. David Scharf/Science A team of scientists has discovered a brand new form of human T cell that suppresses attacks on healthy tissues, which could lead to treatments for illnesses ranging from lupus to cancer. In case you forgot, T cells are one of the most...
By JESSIE INCHAUSPÉ FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 20:47 EST, 11 March 2022 | UPDATED: 02:57 EST, 12 March 2022 You might think the secret to weight loss is counting calories, cutting carbs or spending hours on a treadmill. But I have discovered it could be as simple as deconstructing that lunchtime tuna sandwich so you eat the salad first, then...
By Ashley Nash March 10, 2022 12:50 p.m. MST This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University are developing a treatment for people who have lost their smell due to COVID-19. NIAID-RML via Associated Press Researchers at Thomas...
Neem tree bark extract may provide a useful starting point for new COVID-19 treatments. Nuk2013/Shutterstock Researchers in Colorado and India are researching the bark of the neem tree as a way to treat COVID-19. They learned that an extract from the tree bark, Azadirachta indica, may have antiviral benefits and help reduce symptoms in people with a...
by Adrian Esterman, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most populous city in central China. Early reports said the virus didn’t appear to...
by Max Planck Society Autophagy is like the garbage disposal program of a cell, through which it disposes unusable material. Credit: Pixabay_Hans For the first time, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and the University Hospital Bonn have been able to directly link a stress factor in the brain to the cell’s recycling system and...
by Krista Conger, Stanford University Medical Center An illustration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com An unexpected link between tuberculosis and cancer may lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial disease that kills more than 1.5 million people each year, according to a study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine. The study found...
3/8/2022 5:30:00 AM New work “is the first to show that an increase in translation errors causes shortened life span and accelerated aging in mammals.” Mice with sloppy protein making machinery grow old faster, study finds Cells are continually cranking out new proteins, but like car factories, they produce some lemons. A study of mice...
Researchers Dr Yansong Feng and Prof. Hong Zhang at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have designed and synthesized novel multi-layered, multi-functional nanoparticles that enable a combination of radiotherapy and photodynamic therapy for deep cancer tissue. An initial pre-clinical evaluation of the particles has demonstrated their therapeutic potential. A...
