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Adverse health effects of micro- and nanoplastic particles in food

Five grams of plastic particles on average enter the human gastrointestinal tract per person per week. This is roughly equivalent to the weight of a credit card.

24 Mar 2022

Prevalence of organ impairment in Long COVID patients 6 and 12 months after initial symptoms

Researchers assessed the prevalence of organ impairment in long COVID six months and a year post-COVID-19 at London and Oxford.

24 Mar 2022

New therapy makes immunologically 'cold' tumors hot enough for immune attack

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously difficult to cure or even treat. Now, a new strategy devised by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine has succeeded in making pancreatic tumors visible to the immune systems of mice and vulnerable to immune attack, reducing cancer metastases by 87%.

23 Mar 2022

Immunocompromised patients worry vaccine exemptions put them in peril

Charlie O'Neill received part of her husband's liver in a 2013 living donor transplant and has been taking drugs that suppress her immune system ever since to prevent her body from attacking the organ.

22 Mar 2022

Study: Ketogenic diet helps kill pancreatic cancer cells when combined with a triple-drug therapy

The findings of a new study suggest that a ketogenic diet - which is low in carbohydrates and protein, but high in fat - helps to kill pancreatic cancer cells when combined with a triple-drug therapy developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope.

22 Mar 2022

Study reveals novel tumor biomarker of aggressive cancers with poor prognosis

A study published in The Journal of Pathology reveals that many cancers that carry a poor prognosis express an altered form of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), an enzyme that regulates the expression of multiple genes.

22 Mar 2022

Using CRISPR/Cas to develop biosafety materials

Researchers discuss the use of the highly efficient CRISPR/Cas technologies to identify viral genome sequences for biosafety purposes.

21 Mar 2022

Covid-19 patients are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, study shows

People who have had Covid-19 are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This is the result of a study by DDZ, DZD and IQVIA, which has now been published in Diabetologia.

21 Mar 2022

TTUHSC secures $1.87 million grant to investigate the impact of vitamin A depletion on Alzheimer’s disease

Ongoing research suggests that an accumulation of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the area of the brain known as the hippocampal dentate gyrus may begin early on in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

21 Mar 2022

Presence of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife market for human consumption in Laos

Researchers from different countries examined various animal species from wildlife trade sites to detect the presence of zoonotic pathogens in Laos, South East Asia.

18 Mar 2022

Study reports reduced disease severity in Syrian hamsters during re-infection with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

Researchers studied the immune responses in Syrian hamsters re-infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta and B.1 variants three months after the primary infection.

17 Mar 2022

Siemens Healthineers launches Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) Test in the U.S.

The Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) Test from Siemens Healthineers is now available in the United States, providing broad clinical access to the minimally invasive prognostic tool.

From Siemens Healthineers Laboratory Diagnostics 17 Mar 2022

SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

A Saint Louis University School of Medicine scientist and SLUCare physician has received funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS).

16 Mar 2022

New insight into how gut bacteria work to counter intestinal inflammation

Bile acids made by the liver have long been known for their critical role in helping to absorb the food we ingest.

16 Mar 2022

Study reveals how to identify and avoid risks related to mitochondrial therapeutic interventions

Research carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has demonstrated that mixing mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) of different origins can have damaging effects over the medium and long term.

16 Mar 2022

High prevalence of COVID-19 in myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

A team of scientists from Iran has recently estimated the prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in myocardial infarction patients receiving a primary percutaneous coronary intervention. A considerably high prevalence of COVID-19 has been observed among study participants. The study is currently available on the Research Square* Preprint Server.

16 Mar 2022

SARS-CoV-2 infection model generated from human tonsil epithelial organoids

Researchers evaluate the feasibility of tonsil epithelial cell-derived organoids as an ex vivo model for studying SARS-CoV-2 infection.

15 Mar 2022

Researchers illuminate the link between autophagy and the body's metabolic response to fasting

The coming of spring harkens spring cleaning; a time to de-clutter your home and discard things that are no longer needed. In the body, a cellular process called autophagy occurs regularly to "de-clutter" our cells.

15 Mar 2022

Cell fusion could be a potential therapeutic strategy to treat retinal damage

Fusing human retinal cells with adult stem cells could be a potential therapeutic strategy to treat retinal damage and visual impairment, according to the findings of a new study published in the journal eBioMedicine.

15 Mar 2022

Exposure to room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation

Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed: Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published in PNAS.

14 Mar 2022

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Adverse health effects of micro- and nanoplastic particles in food

Prevalence of organ impairment in Long COVID patients 6 and 12 months after initial symptoms

New therapy makes immunologically 'cold' tumors hot enough for immune attack

Immunocompromised patients worry vaccine exemptions put them in peril

Study: Ketogenic diet helps kill pancreatic cancer cells when combined with a triple-drug therapy

Study reveals novel tumor biomarker of aggressive cancers with poor prognosis

Using CRISPR/Cas to develop biosafety materials

Covid-19 patients are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, study shows

TTUHSC secures $1.87 million grant to investigate the impact of vitamin A depletion on Alzheimer’s disease

Presence of zoonotic pathogens in wildlife market for human consumption in Laos

Study reports reduced disease severity in Syrian hamsters during re-infection with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

Siemens Healthineers launches Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) Test in the U.S.

SLU physician-scientist receives NIH funding for Short Bowel Syndrome research

New insight into how gut bacteria work to counter intestinal inflammation

Study reveals how to identify and avoid risks related to mitochondrial therapeutic interventions

High prevalence of COVID-19 in myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

SARS-CoV-2 infection model generated from human tonsil epithelial organoids

Researchers illuminate the link between autophagy and the body's metabolic response to fasting

Cell fusion could be a potential therapeutic strategy to treat retinal damage

Exposure to room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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