Surgery Most Effective Treatment of Metabolic Liver Disease
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A new paper, published today in The Lancet by King’s and the Catholic University of Rome, is the first to compare three active treatments of non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) and to specifically investigate the effectiveness of metabolic surgery (weight loss surg…
Infant lung infections – new RSV vaccine can save thousands of lives, researchers say
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The first vaccine to prevent severe lung infections, including pneumonia, in infants will save thousands of lives and reduce the burden on health systems in low- to middle-income countries, researchers say. © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved A vaccine for respiratory…
Exposure to Air Pollution During Pregnancy Increases Risk for Flu
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Air pollution, which is a worldwide environmental health issue, is responsible for one in nine deaths with an annual premature mortality of more than 7 million.Getty Images During pregnancy, women are more susceptible to severe respiratory infections from multiple viruses, in…
Purdue Ventures Invests in Antibody-Based Cancer Therapeutics Company
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TRIO Pharmaceuticals enhances the body’s immune system to effectively attack cancers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Ventures, which manages three funds to support Purdue University-connected startups, has invested $250,000 in TRIO Pharmaceuticals Inc., a cancer immunotherapeutics startup foun…
A 'Backpack' Full of Multiple Sclerosis Therapy
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that destroys the protective myelin covering around nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body, and causing patients' ability to move and function to progressively decline. The MS atlas reported in 2020 that someone is…
Brain Diseases Are Better Classified Using Analysis of Gene Activity, Shows Study
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Brain graphic illustrating anatomic patterning of classes ADG 1–5 (5 primary anatomic disease groups). Credit: Zeighami Y et al, PLOS Biology (2023), CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) …
A Gene Involved in Down Syndrome Puts the Brakes on Neurons' Activity in Mice, New Study Shows
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Michigan have found that an extra copy of a gene in Down syndrome patients causes improper development of neurons in mice. …
Study of College Athletes Shows That Nutrition & Sleep May Go Hand in Hand
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Newswise — Long Beach, Calif. (April 21, 2023)—What you eat might influence when you go to sleep, according to a new study of elite female college athletes. Researchers will present their work this week at the American Physiology Summit, the flagship annual meeting of the American Physiological So…
Hungry Eyes: Spiders Lose Vision When They're Starving
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Biologists at the University of Cincinnati discovered that underfed jumping spiders lose light-sensitive cells that are key to their vision. UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Elke Buschbeck and her co-authors studied photoreceptors in the eyes of bold jumping spiders, tiny eight-leg…
Gut Bacteria Use Super-Polymers to Dodge Antibiotics
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The force-extension and contraction response of F-pili fits the eWLC model and shows no hysteresis. A Overview of the experimental setup. A bacterial cell was mounted on the stage and the F-pilus was forcefully extended and retra…