UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO IMAGE: COLORED SEM IMAGE OF A PNEUMONIA-FIGHTING MICROROBOT MADE OF AN ALGAE CELL (GREEN) COVERED WITH BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER NANOPARTICLES (BROWN). THE NANOPARTICLES CONTAIN ANTIBIOTICS AND ARE COATED WITH NEUTROPHIL CELL MEMBRANES. CREDIT: FANGYU ZHANG AND ZHENGXING LI Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots,...
URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS, SALEN – THE SUBSTANCE AT THE PHOTO – IS RELATIVELY SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE TO SYNTHESIZE. CREDIT: URFU / DAMIR SAFIN Researchers found out that salen is able effectively bind a number of proteins of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Scientists used the method of molecular docking and discovered, that salen...
by Jim Miller, University of Rochester Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Common concerns about telemedicine don’t hold up to scrutiny, a first-of-its-kind study highlighting telemedicine’s remarkable effectiveness concludes. The paper is one of two studies on telemedicine by University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) researchers appearing this week in NEJM Catalyst. The second study demonstrates...
by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a large clinical trial that directly compared four drugs commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin glargine and liraglutide performed the best of four medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to maintain blood...
by Laurie Fickman, University of Houston Marc Hamilton, professor of Health and Human Performance at the University of Houston, is pioneering the “soleus pushup” for the calf muscle that is only 1% of your body weight, but can improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly. Credit: University of Houston...
by The Scripps Research Institute Scripps Research scientists have found a protein in immune cells (called neutrophils) that could be a target against harmful inflammation. An imaging technique called Stochastic Optical Reconstruction super-resolution Microscopy (STORM, right image) shows that in resting neutrophils, the WASH protein complex (green) forms a molecular clustered complex with microfilaments called...
by Jim Lynch, University of Michigan Abhinav Achreja, PhD, Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering and Deepak Nagrath, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering work on ovarian cancer cell research in the bio-engineering lab at the North Campus Research Center (NCRC). Credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering The way that tumor cells enable...
by Claudia Ehrlich, Universität des Saarlandes Dr. Annette Lis (R) and Dorina Zöphel (L) of Saarland University are studying how the activity of killer cells changes as the cells age. Credit: Oliver Dietze The human immune system is a thing of wonder. Up until now it had been widely assumed that the ability of killer...
by European Lung Foundation Portrait of researcher Dr Manali Mukherjee. Credit: Dr Manali Mukherjee / European Respiratory Society Blood samples drawn from patients with long COVID who are still suffering from fatigue and shortness of breath after a year show signs of autoimmune disease in those patients, according to a study published today in the European...
by Stefan Zorn, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Has shown that botulinum toxin injections not only affect muscles, but also the emotional control centre in the brain: Professor Dr. Tillmann Krüger. Credit: Karin Kaiser / MHH The bacterial toxin botulinum toxin (BTX)—colloquially known as Botox—is probably known to most people as a remedy for wrinkles. But botulinum...
