Repairing chronic wounds
Chronic wounds cause nearly 80,000 lower leg amputations annually in the U.S. alone and are associated with an increased likelihood of death. While the body...
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UMMS scientists offer first look at how our cells can ‘swallow up and quarantine’ Zika
Credit: Brass Lab WORCESTER, MA – Eight weeks after receiving their first samples of Zika virus, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS)...
Gut microbes’ metabolite dampens proliferation of intestinal stem cells
Intestinal stem cells are among the most rapidly dividing cells in the body, busily creating new cells to replace the ones that are constantly being...
Brain power
Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself multiple times in order to...
Prevention may be essential to reducing racial disparities in stroke
Blacks between the ages of 45 and 54 die of strokes at a rate that is three times greater than their white counterparts, according to...
New clues found to immune system’s misfiring in autoimmune diseases
A person’s genetic makeup plays a role in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis that develop when the body is attacked by its own immune...
Walnuts may improve your colon health
Eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer, researchers led by UConn Health report in the journal Cancer Prevention Research....
Pick me! Pick me! How genes are selected to create diverse immune cell receptors
Credit: Babraham Institute Use of a new technique developed at the Babraham Institute has allowed researchers to take an in-depth look at the gene shuffling...
Reading between the genes
For a long time dismissed as “junk DNA”, we now know that also the regions between the genes fulfil vital functions. Mutations in those DNA...
CNIO scientists have created mice with hyper-long telomeres without altering the genes
The Telomeres and Telomerase Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with the Centre’s Transgenic Mice Core Unit, has succeeded in...
Dietary supplement may prevent and reverse severe damage to aging brain, research suggests
A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals–all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores–has shown remarkable anti-aging properties that can...
3-D printing of patterned membranes opens door to rapid advances in membrane technology
Credit: Hickner Group/Penn State A new type of 3-D printing will make it possible for the first time to rapidly prototype and test polymer membranes...
Renal dopamine signaling prevents kidney injury and improves blood pressure in mice
Dopamine signaling in the kidneys plays a critical role in blood pressure regulation and is responsible for nearly half of the salt and water excretion...
Cancer cells become more aggressive from fat storage
It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive – most can be neutralised with radiation and chemotherapy. Researchers at Lund University...
Imaging biomarker distinguishes prostate cancer tumor grade
Physicians have long used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect cancer but results of a University of California San Diego School of Medicine study describe...
