BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES | OCTOBER 23, 2018 Historically, looking at urine has been a way for doctors to gauge a person’s health, especially before other types of testing were available. If you’ve had diabetes for a long time or know someone who has, you’ll know that urine testing was a way...
Dyani Lewis Spinal-cord injuries can be partially healed by remodelling of certain neurons.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL Neuroscientists have identified the nerve cells responsible for helping paralysed people to walk again, opening up the possibility of targeted therapies that could benefit a wider range of people with spinal-cord injuries. Severe spinal-cord injuries can disrupt the connection between...
Megan Brooks November 07, 2022 Brain wave recordings obtained during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) offer support to near-death experiences subjectively reported by some people who survive cardiac arrest, according to a novel new study. “These recalled experiences and brain wave changes may be the first signs of the so-called ‘near-death’ experience, and we have captured them for the first time...
by University of Sydney High-resolution image of the ‘wiring diagram’ of a human brain revealing connections to the hippocampus. Credit: Marshall Dalton/ University of Sydney The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus—the brain’s memory control center—and the rest of the brain has been created by Australian scientists. And it...
by University of Tokyo Location of three biomarkers (MGAM, MUC1, CD9) in kidney tissue shown as green, blue or red by tissue staining. These biomarkers are situated in different cellular compartments in different segments of the nephron. Credit: 2022 Takizawa et al. Early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is key to managing progression of...
by Technical University Munich Proposed mechanism and hypothetical models of IAPP/ACM nanofiber co-assembly versus IAPP amyloid self-assembly. The lower part, IAPP self-assembly into toxic oligomers and amyloid fibrils. The upper part, in the presence of ACMs, IAPP monomers/prefibrillar species are redirected into initially amorphous and non-toxic hetero-assemblies, which convert into amyloid fibril-resembling but ThT-invisible and...
by The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects plasma cells, the blood cells involved in the production of antibodies. It is the second most common hematologic cancer, accounting for 2% of all cancers of hematologic origin. Multiple myeloma is usually treated with a...
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN November 08, 2022 A novel approach in which two products were co-administered achieved a 99% complete response rate in children with relapsed or treatment-resistant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). In this trial, the largest study to date of a CAR T-cell therapy for such patients, the researchers co-administered two CAR T-cell therapies, one targeting...
VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: TINY HAIRS ON THE OUTER WALL OF SOME CELLS CAN MOVE IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, THEREBY INFLUENCING EACH OTHER CREDIT: TU WIEN They are only very simple structures, but without them we could not survive: Countless tiny hairs (cilia) are found on the outer wall of some cells, for example in...
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI According to a study, type 1 diabetes could be prevented by inhibiting a gene associated with the onset of the disease. A drug based on the same mechanism has already been approved for the treatment of another autoimmune disease psoriasis in the United States, which may boost the development of drug therapies...
