By Bronwyn Thompson Celastrol is produced in the root of the traditional medicinal plant Tripterygium wilfordiiNikolaj Hansen/University of CopenhagenA climbing vine known as the “Seven Steps of Death” holds within its toxic growth something scientists believe to be a powerful anti-obesity compound, celastrol. For the first time, this hotly touted compound has been produced simply and...
Subtypes differed in abnormal proteins, disease progression and life expectancyBy JOHN ELY SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE Scientists have discovered there are five types of Alzheimer’s, and this may explain why some drugs appear to be ineffective against the condition. Dutch experts came to this conclusion after examining proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, found in...
Introduction By 2050, it is estimated that over 1.31 billion individuals worldwide may have diabetes, a disease linked to substantial morbidity, mortality, and comorbidities. The Lancet has reported that the increase in prevalence, up from 529 million in 2021, is predominantly due to the surge of type 2 diabetes, which is influenced by factors such...
Story by By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH • Tuesday A brain (Illustrative)© (photo credit: Amel Uzunovic/Pexels) Adirect connection between levels in the brain of nitric oxide (NO) – a colorless, odorless and non-flammable gas — has been found for the first time in mouse models with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This breakthrough has just been published by researchers at the Hebrew...
By Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA — April 18, 2023 “Our findings suggest that the αSyn-SAA technique is highly accurate at detecting the biomarker for Parkinson’s disease regardless of the clinical features,” says Luis Concha, Ph.D., “making it possible to accurately diagnose the disease in patients at early stages.” For those in the Parkinson’s Disease community, this is...
BY JOSEPH GUSTAITIS | FEBRUARY 17, 2023 It was exactly 100 years ago that two Canadian physicians shared the Nobel Prize In Medicine for the discovery of insulin. Since then it has proven to be a wonder drug. Before it, a diagnosis of diabetes was essentially a death sentence. Today, diabetes patients can live for many...
CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN IMAGE: PROF. DR. MARCUS MALL © CHARITÉ | WIEBKE PEITZ CREDIT: © CHARITÉ | WIEBKE PEITZ The Falling Walls Foundation has awarded Prof. Dr. Marcus Mall of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin the title Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in Life Sciences for a new treatment approach to cystic fibrosis. The...
By BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 Human kidney ureteric bud organoids derived from stem cells and stained for different proteins. Credit: Bonventre Lab/Brigham and Women’s Hospital A Key Step Forward One in nine adults worldwide has some kind of kidney disease, and kidney failure is becoming more common everywhere. Growing functional kidney tissue in a...
by University of British Columbia Optimization of parameters for insulin NPs: (a) Effect of the pH on the average diameter and the encapsulation efficiency (EE) of the insulin NPs (prepared under the mass ratio of chitosan and insulin at 5:1); (b) Effect of the mass ratio between chitosan and insulin the average diameter and the...
by University of Auckland Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After 20 years searching for a cure for tinnitus, researchers at the University of Auckland are excited by ‘encouraging results’ from a clinical trial of a mobile-phone-based therapy. The study randomized 61 patients to one of two treatments, the prototype of the new ‘digital polytherapeutic’ or a...
