TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Scientists working in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) have uncovered a new approach for treating severe asthma. They have high hopes their discovery may pave the way for effective new treatments, especially in children. Ireland has one of the highest rates of asthma in...
Month: <span>March 2022</span>
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How a fungus hijacks our immune system
LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH AND INFECTION BIOLOGY – HANS KNOELL INSTITUTE IMAGE: CANDIDA ALBICANS (BLUE) TAKES UP HUMAN MICRORNA (RED) FROM EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES. CREDIT: LUKE DONALD HALDER/LEIBNIZ-HKI Jena. During infection, the yeast Candida albicans stimulates the release of tiny RNA fragments, which then stimulate its own growth. An international research team led by the Leibniz...
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World-first guidelines for children with common inherited nerve disorder
MURDOCH CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE IMAGE: PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGISTS AND ALLIED HEALTH CLINICIANS HAVE DEVELOPED WORLD-FIRST CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR CHILDREN WITH CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE (CMT), THE MOST COMMON CHILDHOOD INHERITED NERVE DISORDER. CREDIT: FREEPIK Paediatric neurologists and allied health clinicians have developed world-first clinical practice guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common childhood inherited...
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Standard for pulmonary function tests gets an update
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY NEW YORK, NY – March 02, 2022 – In the latest update to the pulmonary function tests technical standard series, the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society address the uncertainty around the interpretation of the tests which are essential in determining the extent of respiratory dysfunction. The update was recently published...
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Sleep apnea may lead to increased joint pain in postmenopausal women
THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY (NAMS) CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 2, 2022)—The menopause transition is associated with several health issues. The incidence of both sleep apnea and joint pain, for example, are higher in postmenopausal women. A new study aimed to investigate the association between various physical and psychological symptoms common during the menopause transition with...
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Tiny biohybrid robots for intelligent drug delivery
BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESS CO., LTD IMAGE: SCIENTISTS FROM BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY REVIEWED PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES OF BIOHYBRID MICRO- AND NANOROBOTS FOR INTELLIGENT DRUG DELIVERY. CREDIT: JINHUA LI, BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A review paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology summarized recent advancements in use of intelligent biohybrid micro- and...
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Intestinal cells change functions during their lives
by Hubrecht Institute Human intestinal organoids used in this study to model the impact of BMP signaling on differentiation. Credit: Joep Beumer, Jens Puschhof and Fjodor Yousef Yengej, Copyright Hubrecht Institute. Intestinal cells can change specializations during their lives. The BMP signaling pathway—an important communication mechanism between cells—appears to be the driver of these changes....
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More than one surgery is common for hernia patients
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain About one in six older Americans who’d undergone an operation to repair a hernia had repeat hernia surgery less than 10 years later, Michigan Medicine research found. These rates have barely improved since the 1990s, when similar data revealed that about one in five patients underwent at...
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The role of lipids in the development of Alzheimer’s disease
by University of Geneva Left: normal astrocyte able to destroy toxic lipids produced by neurons. Right: an astrocyte that stores lipids in droplets (pink) and starts secreting toxic lipids in the surrounding tissue. Credit: UNIGE / A.-C. Gavin Neurons in the brain coexist with and rely on many other cell types to function properly. Astrocytes, which take their name from their star shape, ensure the survival...
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First data in a decade highlights ethnic disparities in cancer
by Cancer Research UK Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cancer Research UK’s latest analysis of NHS Digital cancer registration data uses the most complete recording to date of cancer rates by ethnicity in England, providing crucial data on how some cancer rates vary by ethnicity. The results are published today in the British Journal of Cancer. White...