BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES | MARCH 11, 2021 The arrival of March is a sign that spring is on its way! March also happens to be National Kidney Month. That may not sound all that exciting, but your kidneys need some TLC, especially if you have diabetes. These two bean-shaped organs, which are...
by Hubrecht Institute A microscopy picture of muscle cells in a normal heart (left) and muscle cells in a heart of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (right). The black areas are single muscle cells. The muscle cells of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient are bigger, and there is more space in between the cells (green), which...
by Rutgers University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A receptor that was first identified as necessary for insulin action, that also is located on the neural stem cells found deep in the brains of mice, is pivotal for brain stem cell longevity, according to a Rutgers study, a finding that has important implications for brain health...
By Jason Mast May 11, 2022 ADOBE For two decades, Luda Diatchenko investigated the underlying biology of pain like a detective chasing clue after clue: What role does this gene play? How about that protein? She always wondered, though, what she would find if she could look at how every gene inside a cell behaves...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Clinical course of M. chelonae infection. A Left upper extremity with multiple large erythematous, fluctuant to nodular lesions ultimately diagnosed as disseminated cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection. B Images of the left upper extremity lesions prior to (Dec 2020) and following (August 2021) addition of bacteriophage therapy. C PET/CT prior to...
by Richard Harth, Arizona State University Credit: Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Neurodegenerative diseases damage and destroy neurons, ravaging both mental and physical health. Parkinson’s disease, which affects over 10 million people worldwide, is no exception. The most obvious symptoms of Parkinson’s disease arise after the illness damages a specific...
BY KORIN MILLER MAY 10, 2022 RBKOMAR GETTY IMAGES Spotting a tick on your body can be borderline terrifying. After all, not only can the insect suck your blood, it can also carry a range of potentially serious diseases like Lyme disease and babesiosis. Naturally, you’ll want to remove the tick ASAP, but sometimes the bug can break,...
A protein called CDC7, long thought to play an essential role early in the cell division process, is in fact replaceable by another protein called CDK1, according to a study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The finding represents a fundamental advance in cell biology and may lead to new cancer therapies...
OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FIG 1. EACH GROUP’S THERAPY ROUTINE IS OUTLINED (LEFT) WITH FUGL-MEYER ASSESSMENTS (RIGHT). THE FUGL-MEYER ASSESSMENT IS A STROKE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE-BASED IMPAIRMENT INDEX THAT RATES PATIENTS’ ABILITY TO PERFORM TASKS ON A 3-POINT SCALE, 0 INDICATES TASKS CANNOT BE PERFORMED, 1 PARTIALLY PERFORMED, 2 PERFORMED. CREDIT: TAKASHI TAKEBAYASHI , OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY...
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (WASHINGTON, Month, Day, 2022) — According to a study published today in Blood Advances, people suffering from long COVID may face an increased risk of abnormal blood clotting. Investigators also found that this blood abnormality was four times more likely in those experiencing difficulties with basic exercise more than 12 weeks after...
