Another step toward an insulin tablet
For the millions of people living with diabetes, insulin is a life-saving drug. Unlike many other medicines, though, insulin cannot be easily delivered by swallowing...
NEWS INDEX
Families with food insecurity have greater health care expenditures
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Jan. 9, 2023 – Food insecurity, which is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, impacts about 10.2% of...
NSF awards UMBC’s Lauren Clay $624K Convergence Accelerator grant to address food insecurity in disasters
Longstanding food insecurity problems in the U.S. and around the world, exacerbated by the pandemic, are projected to increase over the coming decades, as food,...
Nanoplastics unexpectedly produce reactive oxidizing species when exposed to light
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society, found in packaging and bottles as well as making up more than 18% of solid waste in landfills. Many...
nTIDE December 2022 Jobs Report: Hot job market continues for people with disabilities despite efforts to cool the economy
East Hanover, NJ – January 6, 2023 – Persistent efforts to cool the economy had no effect on jobseekers with disabilities, who continued to find...
Study reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now, researchers at...
Rice University scientists get fungi to spill their secrets
HOUSTON – (Jan. 6, 2023) – As anyone who has ever attended a cocktail party can tell you, shedding inhibitions makes you more talkative and...
Indigenous territories and protected areas are key to forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon, study shows
A research study led by researchers with the Center for Earth Observation and Modeling at the University of Oklahoma analyzed time series satellite images from...
First-in-kind amputated human limb model to study imaging probes for human tissues
The nascent field of fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) is fast growing, with potential to vastly improve the safety and efficacy of surgical procedures. In FGS, tissues...
Lab lights way to simple chemical synthesis
HOUSTON – (Jan. 6, 2023) – Inexpensive iron salts are a key to simplifying the manufacture of essential precursors for drugs and other chemicals, according...
Genes & Cancer | Pathogenesis to management of hepatocellular carcinoma
BUFFALO, NY- January 6, 2023 – A new review was published in Genes & Cancer on December 13, 2022, entitled, “Pathogenesis to management of hepatocellular...
Advancing health and health equity across the globe
Joint press release by Charité and the Einstein Foundation Berlin A new platform for global health is being created within Berlin’s university medicine landscape in...
New Chinese Medical Journal article discusses metabolic reprogramming of tumor-associated macrophages
Cancer is a complex disease and although billions of dollars have been spent on finding safe and effective therapeutics for it, there is still scope...
Marine plankton tell the long story of ocean health, and maybe human too
Using samples from an almost century-old, ongoing survey of marine plankton, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest that rising levels...
From grave to cradle: Collagen-induced gut cell reprogramming
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that collagen deposition at sites of intestinal injury activates inflammatory and regenerative signaling in both mouse...
