By Web Desk May 27, 2023 This representational picture shows a scientist examining a chemical compound in a petri dish. — Unsplash/File Scientists have discovered a new chemical compound namely “1938” which can help damaged nerves regenerate after injury. According to a study published in the journal Nature, the new compound, 1938, “activates biological mechanisms that...
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLMMay 26 2023 By 2050, one in 10 individuals are expected to live with some form of hearing loss. Of the hundreds of millions of cases of hearing loss affecting individuals worldwide, genetic hearing loss is often the most difficult to treat. While hearing aids and cochlear implants offer limited relief, no...
HEALTH 28 May 2023 By DAVID NIELD (Flavio Coelho/Moment/Getty Images) Stimulating the brain with magnetic fields can help relieve the symptoms of depression in some people, but scientists haven’t been sure precisely why it works. A new study offers some insight: The process reverses brain signals going in the wrong direction. These neural streams of activity going in the...
by Stefanie Seltmann, Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité (BIH) Credit: BIH/Petra Ritter Do intelligent people think faster? Researchers at the BIH and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, together with a colleague from Barcelona, made the surprising finding that participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple tasks, while they took longer to solve difficult problems...
by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graphical Abstract. Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.005 Infections and other diseases can cause red blood cells to rupture, releasing the oxygen-binding molecule hemoglobin, which breaks down into heme. Free heme can cause significant inflammation and organ damage, leading to morbidity and mortality. Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discovered NLRP12, an innate immune pattern recognition receptor,...
Researchers hope someday to be able to tell fat cells to burn off excess calories as heat, instead of storing them and causing people to become overweight or obese. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly. Understanding of fat cells could lead to calorie-burning treatments Researchers are a step closer to figuring out how to instruct fat cells to burn off excess...
Written by Nicole Andonian, MD | Reviewed by Katie E. Golden, MD Updated on February 9, 2023 Key takeaways: Paresthesia — the medical term for tingling in the hands and feet — is often a sign of a problem with the nerves. There are many different causes. Vitamin deficiencies are a common cause of paresthesias....
By Adrianna Nine May 31, 2023 Credit: ANIRUDH/Unsplash Multiple myeloma, one of the world’s most common blood disorders, has long been considered incurable. This form of cancer impacts plasma cells, crowding out healthy blood cells and spreading to multiple bone marrow sites throughout the body. Although drugs, radiation, and chemotherapy sometimes reduce patients’ symptoms and...
COMPUSCRIPT LTD This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses click chemistry extracellular vesicle/peptide/chemokine nanocarriers for treating central nervous system injuries. Central nervous system (CNS) injuries, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury, are essential causes of death and long-term disability and are difficult to cure, mainly due to the limited neuron regeneration and...
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS IMAGE: THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM RELEASES THE NEUROTRANSMITTER NOREPINEPHRINE (NE) AND ACTIVATES THE Β3 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR (ADRB3) PATHWAY FOR LIPID HYDROLYSIS AND OXIDATION IN RESPONSE TO COLD EXPOSURE. THIS UPREGULATES THERMOGENIC GENES, INCLUDING UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1 (UCP1), WHICH MEDIATES THE THERMOGENIC PROCESS. ADDITIONALLY, OGFR ENHANCES THE PRODUCTION OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL TRIFUNCTIONAL PROTEIN...
