This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Fitness produced by training is here shown to correlate with reduced inflammatory signaling, but has no effect on the burden of senescent cells in old muscle tissue. This is interesting, as the accumulation of senescent cells with age...
Harvard Medical School researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will soon begin testing an existing drug, dornase alfa, in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure. The randomized, controlled clinical trial aims to enroll 60 adults and children over age 3 who require mechanical ventilation. Dornase alfa, also known as...
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE July 30, 2020–(BRONX, NY)–A new study shows how chronic psychological stress leads to painful vessel-clogging episodes–the most common complication of sickle-cell disease (SCD) and a frequent cause of hospitalizations. The findings, made in mice, show that the gut microbiome plays a key role in triggering those episodes and reveals possible...
by European Society of Cardiology Eating chocolate at least once a week is linked with a reduced risk of heart disease, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “Our study suggests that chocolate helps keep the heart’s blood vessels healthy,” said...
by Johannes Angerer, Medical University of Vienna The chronic viral inflammation of the liver that occurs in hepatitis C results in the formation of inflexible scar tissue in the form of fibrosis/cirrhosis of the liver. This impedes the flow of blood through the organ, with resulting hypertension in the portal vein. In the majority of...
Specialized nanoparticles create a ‘breath signal’ that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MA — Using specialized nanoparticles, MIT engineers have developed a way to monitor pneumonia or other lung diseases by analyzing the breath exhaled by the patient. In a study of mice,...
MONASH UNIVERSITY FLUORESCENT PICTURE OF AN INTESTINAL ORGANOID (STAINED FOR THE PROLIFERATION MARKER KI-67 (WHITE), THE STEM CELL MARKER EPHB2 (RED) AND DNA (BLUE). view more CREDIT: (C) MONASH BDI In a world first, Monash University researchers have identified a key biomolecule that enhances the repair of your gut lining by prompting stem cells to...
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. “I was on the front lines right from the beginning. I observed that patients were...
by Max Planck Society As we age, the immune system gradually becomes impaired. One aspect of this impairment is chronic inflammation in the elderly, which means that the immune system is constantly active and sends out inflammatory substances. Such chronic inflammation is associated with multiple age-related diseases including arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease, and impaired immune...
Of a small number of patients, 15% died compared with the 85% expected Overall 70% of patients who were on the brink of death saw improvements The researchers admitted they did not expect such positive results The treatment works by injecting patients with cells taken from fat tissue The stem cells are known to bolster...
