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New Study on Circadian Clock Shows “Junk DNA” Plays a Key Role in Regulating Rhythms

January 11, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — If you’ve ever had a bad case of jet lag, you know how a disruption to your body’s circadian rhythm makes it difficult to function. Molecular circadian “clocks”...

Molecules Derived from Omega-3 can Regenerate Inflamed Periodontal Tissue

December 17, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Maresin and resolvin, produced by the body from omega-3 fatty acids, can help repair tissue damaged by periodontal disease. A recent study shows that even in the presence of inflammation...

Researchers Develop New Way to Watch Pancreatic Cells Package Insulin

December 11, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — For the first time, scientists have peered deeply inside a pancreatic cell and observed it packaging insulin and responding to a drug treatment, an intimate look at the mechanisms...

Hydrogel could Open New Path for Glaucoma Treatment without Drugs or Surgery

December 8, 2020
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Atlanta, GA — Researchers have developed a potential new treatment for the eye disease glaucoma that could replace daily eye drops and surgery with a twice-a-year injection to control the buildup of...

Drug for Rare Disorder Shows Promise for Treating Herpes Viruses

December 8, 2020
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Chicago, IL — A drug currently prescribed to treat a rare enzyme deficiency can help cells clear the herpes simplex 1 and herpes simplex 2 viruses, according to a new study published in the journal Science...

Immunologists Developed Method for Assessing Inflammation in Respiratory Tract Diseases

December 7, 2020
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Moscow, Russia — A team of immunologists from RUDN University suggested a new tool to control inflammation levels in asthma patients with accompanying diseases. To obtain information about disease...

Hidden Structure Found in Essential Metabolic Machinery

December 7, 2020
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Houston, TX — In his first year of graduate school, Rice University biochemist Zachary Wright discovered something hidden inside a common piece of cellular machinery that’s essential for all...

Blackcurrants are Favourable for Glucose Metabolism

December 4, 2020
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Kuopio, Finland — Blackcurrants have a beneficial effect on post-meal glucose response, and the required portion size is much smaller than previously thought, a new study from the University of Eastern...

Sensor can Detect Scarred or Fatty Liver Tissue

December 3, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — About 25 percent of the U.S. population suffers from fatty liver disease, a condition that can lead to fibrosis of the liver and, eventually, liver failure. Currently there is no...

Plant-Based Diet Ramps Up Metabolism, According to New Study

December 1, 2020
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Washington, DC — A plant-based diet boosts after-meal burn, leads to weight loss, and improves cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals, according to a new randomized control trial published...

Gut Microbiome Link to Deadly Lung Disease

November 20, 2020
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Camperdown, Australia — Research led by the Centenary Institute, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland has shown for the first time a link between chronic obstructive...

CLCN6 Identified as Disease Gene for Severe Form of Lysosomal Neurodegenerative Disease

November 20, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — A mutation in the CLCN6 gene is associated with a novel, particularly severe neurodegenerative disorder. Scientists from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie...

New Research Reveals Potential Treatment to Delay and Manage Osteoarthritis

November 13, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — Osteoarthritis (OA), a widely acknowledged cause of disability that affects patients’ quality of life and has significant economic impact through healthcare costs and loss...

Cell Ageing can be Slowed by Oxidants

November 9, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species – known as oxidants – are harmful to cells in all organisms and have been linked to ageing. But a study from Chalmers...

Bringing Drugs to the Brain with Nanoparticles to Treat Neurodegenerative Diseases

November 9, 2020
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Quebec, Canada — Researchers from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have shown that nanoparticles could be used to deliver drugs to the brain to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The...

An Amazonian Tea Stimulates the Formation of New Neurons

November 6, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — One of the main natural components of ayahuasca tea is dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which promotes neurogenesis –the formation of new neurons– according to research led by...

Dietary Supplement may Help in the Treatment of Fatty Liver

November 5, 2020
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Jyväskylä, Finland — A recent study by researchers at the University of Jyväskylä was successful in partially preventing fatty liver disease in rats. Rats with fatty liver disease were fed with a dietary...

Removing This Hidden Nasty from Our Food could Save Thousands of Lives

November 3, 2020
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Sydney, Australia — Banning a harmful ingredient from the Australian food supply could prevent thousands of deaths from heart disease according to new research from The George Institute for Global...

SARS-CoV-2 might Attack Red Marrow and Block New Erythrocytes Formation

November 2, 2020
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Vladivostok, Russia — Specialists from the Department of Fundamental Medicine of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with Russian and Japanese colleagues have probed into mechanisms of COVID-19 inside-the-body...

Stem Cells: New Insights for Future Regenerative Medicine Approaches

October 29, 2020
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Oeiras, Portugal — Stem cells are considered one of the most promising tools in the field of regenerative medicine because they are a cell type that can give rise to all the cells in our bodies and...

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