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UVA Health increasing access to food allergy clinical trials and expanding research

UVA Health and UVA Children's are increasing access to the latest food allergy clinical trials and expanding their cutting-edge food-allergy research, following their selection to a national food-allergy clinical network.

10 Jun 2020

BAM15 could be an effective drug for treating obesity and related diseases

A new study offers the first evidence that a protein named BAM15 acts as an energy uncoupler and could be an effective drug for treating obesity and related diseases.

10 Jun 2020

Research team provides new insights on the communication between liver and brain

A research team in Vienna is investigating how calorie intake, liver activity and fat storage interact and what role the central nervous system plays in this.

10 Jun 2020

QuantuMDx receives CE-IVD marking for SARS-CoV-2 detection assay

QuantuMDx Group Limited, a UK-based life sciences company developing transformational point-of-care molecular diagnostics, today announces its SARS-CoV-2 detection assay has been CE-IVD marked under the In Vitro Diagnostics Directive (98/79/EC), enabling use within the European Union.

10 Jun 2020

Studies show prognostic value for circulating tumor cells in advanced prostate and breast cancer

Menarini Silicon Biosystems, the pioneer of liquid biopsy and single cell technologies, announced today that results from a new study presented at the virtual 2020 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology suggest that circulating tumor cell counts may be useful in determining long-term prognosis and guiding treatment selection in patients with metastatic castrate sensitive prostate cancer.

10 Jun 2020

Registered COVID-19 clinical trials lack key features to optimize their scientific value

Most of the registered clinical trials of potential treatments for COVID-19 underway as of late March were designed in ways that will greatly limit their value in understanding potential treatments, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

10 Jun 2020

Study provides insight on genes present during trachea and esophagus development

A new study reporting how a network of genes directs the development of the trachea and oesophagus in mice has been published today in eLife.

9 Jun 2020

Study estimates health and economic impacts of the national menu calorie labeling law

The national law requiring chain restaurants to include calorie labels on menus is estimated to prevent tens of thousands of new heart disease and type 2 diabetes cases--and save thousands of lives--in just five years, according to a new study estimating the law's impact.

9 Jun 2020

Exposure to flame retardant impacts paternal reproduction

A new study from the University of Georgia has shown that exposure to a now-banned flame retardant can alter the genetic code in sperm, leading to major health defects in children of exposed parents.

9 Jun 2020

Research highlights nutritional risks among female athletes

Two decades of research among female athletes over the age of 13 years shows that a lack of nutrition knowledge about what they need to eat to stay healthy and compete may contribute to poor performance, low energy and nutrient intake, and potential health risks, according to a Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School study.

9 Jun 2020

High-salt diet may modulate the gut microbiome

Particularly in females with untreated hypertension, reducing salt intake to what's considered a healthier level appears to be good for both their gut microbiome and their blood pressure, scientists report.

9 Jun 2020

New diet and physical activity guideline to prevent cancer

The American Cancer Society has updated its guideline for diet and physical activity for cancer prevention, with adjustments to reflect the most current evidence.

9 Jun 2020

Santen Pharmaceutical and jCyte conclude an exclusive licensing contract in Japan, Asia and Europe for the jCell therapy programme for retinitis pigmentosa

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and jCyte Inc. announced the conclusion of an exclusive licensing contract covering the development, registration and commercialisation rights in Japan, Asia and Europe to jCell, a first-in-class investigational therapy, currently in clinical development for retinitis pigmentosa.

From Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 9 Jun 2020

New evidence supports long-debated mode of evolution

A team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found evidence to support a long-debated mode of evolution, revealing how evolution captures environmental variation to teach old genes new tricks: Sweat bees switch from solitary to social behavior, repurposing ancient sets of genes that originally evolved to regulate the development of other traits.

9 Jun 2020

Innovative effort solves health system's shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs

An innovative effort launched in April and led by a fellow in the UCLA Biodesign program has yielded positive results, solving the health system's shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs - a key element in COVID-19 testing - at a time when Southern California is seeing a rise in new cases and new deaths per day.

8 Jun 2020

Virginia Tech researcher develops new ‘fat burning’ molecule with potential to treat obesity

Obesity affects more than 40 percent of adults in the United States and 13 percent of the global population.

8 Jun 2020

Tanycytes in the brain play an active role in increasing appetite

Tanycytes are glial cells, which communicate with neurons in the brain to inform it of what we have eaten. Researchers from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick have found when tanycytes are selectively stimulated appetite was increased.

8 Jun 2020

Food News and Research

UVA Health increasing access to food allergy clinical trials and expanding research

BAM15 could be an effective drug for treating obesity and related diseases

Research team provides new insights on the communication between liver and brain

QuantuMDx receives CE-IVD marking for SARS-CoV-2 detection assay

Studies show prognostic value for circulating tumor cells in advanced prostate and breast cancer

Registered COVID-19 clinical trials lack key features to optimize their scientific value

Study provides insight on genes present during trachea and esophagus development

Study estimates health and economic impacts of the national menu calorie labeling law

Exposure to flame retardant impacts paternal reproduction

Research highlights nutritional risks among female athletes

High-salt diet may modulate the gut microbiome

New diet and physical activity guideline to prevent cancer

Santen Pharmaceutical and jCyte conclude an exclusive licensing contract in Japan, Asia and Europe for the jCell therapy programme for retinitis pigmentosa

New evidence supports long-debated mode of evolution

Innovative effort solves health system's shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs

Virginia Tech researcher develops new ‘fat burning’ molecule with potential to treat obesity

Tanycytes in the brain play an active role in increasing appetite

Baltimore’s ‘squeegee boys’: ‘If we don’t go out, we don’t eat’

Study reports reduced intake of fruit and vegetables among children since lockdown

Lockdown adversities could affect sleep and mental health

The future is bioengineered: Synthetic biology and global sustainability eBook

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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