Anyone who has drifted into a fuzzy-headed stupor after a large holiday meal is familiar with the condition commonly known as a “food coma.” Now scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Florida Atlantic University and Bowling…
Turning Back the Aging Clock
Researchers from Caltech and UCLA have developed a new approach targeting Aging Mitochondrial DNA to remove cellular damage that accumulates with age. Led by Nikolay Kandul, senior postdoctoral scholar in biology and biological engineering in the laboratory of Professor of Biology…
Reason for Pancreatic Cancer’s Resistance to Chemotherapy Found
A University of Liverpool research team has published a study that identifies the mechanism in the human body that causes resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy, focusing on Fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes…
Drinking Red Wine Before Smoking Can Prevent Short Term Vascular Damage
Drinking red wine is widely regarded as protective for cardiovascular health. A new report in The American Journal of Medicine found that a glass or two of red wine before lighting up a cigarette can counteract some of the short-term negative…
Wearable Device Developed for Type 2 Diabetes
Although effective for the treatment of diabetes, exercise is sometimes difficult for overweight or elderly people. A new wearable medical device developed by Kumamoto University has been found to effect visceral fat loss and improve blood glucose (sugar). The current study…
Innovative Approaches in Ocular Drug Delivery
The estimated number of visually impaired people in the world is 285 million, with 39 million blind people. About 65 percent of visually impaired people and 82 percent of all blind people are 50 years or older. Four major blinding diseases…
Scientists Begin Testing Zika Vaccine in Humans
On Monday scientists began a Phase 1 human clinical trial to test safety and immunogenicity, or the ability to provoke an immune response, of the Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National…
Nano-Decoy Lures Human Influenza A Virus to Its Doom
To infect its victims, influenza A heads for the lungs, where it latches onto sialic acid on the surface of cells. So researchers created the perfect decoy: A carefully constructed spherical nanoparticle coated in sialic acid lures the influenza A virus…
Can We Put a Price on Healthcare Innovation in Cancer?
Most media attention is awarded to cancer’s success stories – new treatment breakthroughs are celebrated as researchers (and journalists) search for an exciting new “cure” for cancer. But what happens after these innovations hit the news? And who is going to…
Genetic Analysis Debunks Purported Origin of 1980’s AIDS Epidemic
A new study exonerates Gaetan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant long considered to be “HIV Patient Zero” in the 1980’s AIDS epidemic in the U.S. An international team of researchers hailing from the University of Arizona and University of Cambridge used…