by RIKEN Microscopy images of zigzag hairs of genetically engineered mice (left: normal mouse; center: mouse with two genes knocked out; right: mouse with two genes enhanced). Credit: RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research RIKEN researchers have discovered how biological rhythms influence hair growth in mice. This finding could pave the way for novel anti-aging treatments...
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology The chest of an adult, showing the location and size of the adult thymus. Credit: LearnAnatomy/Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0 Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are investigating a talented type of T cell. Most T cells only work in the person who made them. Your T cells fight threats...
An Interview With Elena Ivanina, DO, MPH Akash Goel, MDDISCLOSURES November 07, 2023 From Ayurveda to the teachings of Hippocrates, medicine’s earliest traditions advanced a belief that the gut was the foundation of all health and disease. It wasn’t until recently, however, that Western medicine has adopted the notion of gut-barrier dysfunction as a pathologic phenomenon critical...
We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain By Philip Goff on November 7, 2023 The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a...
Miriam E. Tucker November 07, 2023 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against the use of an over-the-counter product called “Dr. Ergin’s SugarMD Advanced Glucose Support” because it was found to contain the prescription glucose-lowering medications metformin and glyburide. The product was sold on the website www.sugarmds.com and was promoted for blood glucose management....
Caroline Guignot November 06, 2023 International vitiligo experts have published new recommendations in two parts — one dedicated to management algorithms, the other to specific treatment recommendations — to update the text from 2013. These recommendations are aimed at dermatologists and primary care providers and propose relatively simple algorithms. Julien Seneschal, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND PHYSICAL FITNESS SINCE CHILDHOOD PREDICTS CEREBELLAR VOLUME IN ADOLESCENCE CREDIT: PETRI JALANKO Physical fitness since childhood is associated with cerebellar grey matter volume in adolescents. According to a recent study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Eastern Finland, those who were stronger, faster and more...
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with experts from Avant-garde Materials Simulation (AMS) and seven pharmaceutical companies have redefined the state-of-the-art in modeling and predicting the free energy of crystals.Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG BOLD ROMAN NUMERALS INDICATE METHODS FOLLOWING (I) HERMANN ET AL.39 AND HOJA ET AL.4, AND (II) GREENWELL, ET AL.29. CREDIT:...
An international team of researchers has demonstrated that genetically engineered yeast cells can produce the natural plant product alstonine, which has shown positive effects in treating schizophrenia.Peer-Reviewed Publication TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK THE RESEARCH TEAM BEHIND EXPERIMENTS WITH GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS. FROM LEFT: JIE ZHANG (CO-FOUNDER & CSO BIOMIA), BEATA LEHKA (POSTDOC, DTU BIOSUSTAIN),...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY HIGH RESOLUTION VISUALIZATION OF CELL COMPONENTS USING THREE CHEMICAL PROBES CREDIT: CÚRAM/PAU FARRAS CÚRAM researchers at University of Galway, together with colleagues at the Centre for Molecular Nanometrology at University of Strathclyde have published work unveiling the inner workings of cells. Published recently in the German scientific journal Angewandte Chemie,...
