by National University of Singapore Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Bile acids, a digestive juice, may hold the key to a new way of treating and preventing type 2 diabetes. Bile acids do more than just helping with food digestion: They also act as signaling molecules and control various body functions, including the regulation of blood...
by Lauran Neergaard Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pfizer said Friday that its updated COVID-19 booster may offer some protection against newly emerging omicron mutants even though it’s not an exact match. Americans have been reluctant to get the updated boosters rolled out by Pfizer and rival Moderna, doses tweaked to target the BA.5 omicron strain...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed and used by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers to successfully detect lung cancer in a 2021 study has now detected more than 80% of liver cancers in a new study of 724 people. The blood...
by Graciela Gutierrez, Baylor College of Medicine nCB accelerates NSCLC development and metastasis in mice. (A) Schematic diagram of nCB exposure in Pts4d/d mice. Three-month-old Pts4d/d mice (C57BL/6 background) were exposed to sterile PBS or nCB (20 mg/ml in sterile PBS) 12 times over a period of 1 month and euthanized after an additional month. i.n., intranasal...
by Rutgers University NLGN3 R451C mixed culture of induced neuronal (iN) cells. Credit: Molecular Psychiatry (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01834-x Scientists looking to understand the fundamental brain mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder have found that a gene mutation known to be associated with the disorder causes an overstimulation of brain cells far greater than that seen in neuronal cells...
by University of California, Irvine When the UCI-led team investigated the optic nerve head of eyes treated with mild pressure elevation, they noted that in the young optic nerve head, there was no sign of loss of axons. However, in the optic nerves of old animals, significant sectorial loss of axons was observed similar to...
by Hokkaido University Under normal conditions (steady state) neutrophils regulate the gut microbiota. When the number of neutrophils drops (neutropenia), the composition of the gut microbiota changes, stimulating T cells to produce IL-17A. IL-17-A in turn stimulates the production of neutrophils in the bone marrow (reactive granulopoiesis). Credit: Daigo Hashimoto Intestinal bacteria composition is crucial...
by University of Basel One of the main causes of liver cancer is excessive alcohol consumption. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel The causes of liver cancer are manifold. In addition to metabolic disorders such as those associated with obesity, the main causes in the western world are infections with hepatitis C virus and high alcohol...
by Boston University School of Medicine Partial Least Square regression identifies clusters of proteins that correlate with each tauopathy. Using the partial least square regression analysis, five clusters of ELISA proteins were identified and compared against each tauopathy to determine degree of correlation. Each comparison was a contrast of a single tauopathy against all other...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainBacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of their lethality revealed on Tuesday. The massive new study, published in the Lancet journal, looked at deaths from 33 common bacterial pathogens and 11 types of infection...
