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How to Reduce Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
Causes of colorectal cancer include a lack of dietary fiber, too much fat, too much processed meat, not enough exercise, obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption .
Lower your risk of colon cancer by eating whole foods consisting of unprocessed grains, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and lean proteins such as fish or white meat .
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Bone growth protein offers hope for newborns with rare lung disease
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
Their study ("Endothelial progenitor cells stimulate neonatal pulmonary angiogenesis via foxf1-mediated BMP9/ACVRL1 signaling") was published in the journal Nature Communications .
The researchers found that adding the synthetic bone morphogenetic protein BMP9 to cells lacking a functional FOXF1 gene helped rebuild the signaling pathway, stimulated Acvrl1 activity, and instructed the lungs to continue making capillaries .
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mRNA vaccine technology promises to treat heart disease
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
Researchers are using the same technology used by the coronavirus vaccine to repair damaged hearts to create the world's first drug to treat heart disease patients .
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Will PCSK9 inhibitors become the main lipid-lowering drugs in the future?
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
However, this therapy is not indicated for adults with primary hypercholesterolemia (heterozygous family HeFH, non-heterozygous family HoFH) and statin-intolerant patients who often require additional lipid-lowering drugs to achieve LDL- C's goal .
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Potential therapeutic target for blood cancer discovered
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
Now, a new study in a mouse model shows that a gene that normally suppresses tumor formation is reprogrammed during the onset of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), an aggressive blood cancer .
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New Evidence Shows Cancer Isn't Hereditary Like Once Thought!
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
While cancer is a genetic disease, genetic factors are only part of the problem, and researchers also need to consider environmental and metabolic factors, according to a review of research by a leading expert at the University of Alberta .
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'Artificial muscles' repair damaged tissue and muscle diseases are expected to usher in new treatments
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
To make the self-renewing stem cells, the research team started with lab-grown human skin cells and used gene editing to turn these cells into more primitive induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which have the ability to evolve into any cell in the body.
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Why does Alzheimer's disease kill so many brain cells?
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
But in this study, the scientists found that, affected by Alzheimer's disease, the somatic mutations accumulated in nerve cells in the brains of patients were abnormal in both speed and type .
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protein synthesis journey
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
This involves the formation of peptide bonds between amino acids that bind to transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules that slide in close proximity on the ribosome and elongate the peptide chain, followed by a conformational change to form the protein .
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Therapeutic targets for aggressive blood cancers
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
The method, developed in Luciano Di Croce's lab at CRG, can also be used to study changes in the genome structure of other types of cancer, which, according to the authors, could reveal other possible therapeutic targets yet to be discovered .
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A messenger substance thought to be inflammation may ease asthma symptoms
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
The research team, led by Professors Susetta Finotto (MD) and Susanne Krammer (Pharmacist), from the Department of Molecular Pulmonology, studied the production of messenger substances in healthy preschool children and asthmatics and participated in the European PreDicta Childhood Asthma research .
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Study finds telomere length linked to risk of death from COVID-19
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
We estimated survival probabilities and used modeling to explore the association between RTL and mortality, taking into account patient characteristics, including age, sex, smoking status, and comorbidities (chronic kidney disease, chronic neurological disease, and tumors [ Abnormal [precancerous] growth cells, tissue in the body]) .
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Largest study of whole-genome sequencing data reveals 'treasure house' of clues to cancer etiology
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
In a study of its kind, a team of scientists led by Professor Serena Nick-Zanner from Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the University of Cambridge analysed the complete genetic makeup or whole genome sequences of more than 12,000 NHS cancer patients .
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Nature: New discovery of immune cells
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
Now, researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) report that they have identified a new "soldier" of immune cells in mice that could be a good target for immunotherapy .
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Li Yulong's team from the School of Life Sciences was invited to write a research review on new technologies for neurotransmitter detection in "Nature Review Neuroscience"
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the methods available to monitor the dynamic changes of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, highlighting recent advances in genetically encoded fluorescent probes and how they can facilitate the in-depth characterization and interpretation of complex neural activity .
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The latest paper in "Nature" reveals why the new crown vaccine booster is still effective for Omicron
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
China News Service, Beijing, April 22 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The world-renowned academic journal "Nature" recently published an immunological study on "Why the new crown vaccine developed for the original strain is still effective against Omicron" The paper shows that the third dose of the mRNA vaccine developed for the original new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) can enhance the ability of the immune system to produce broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies, including the ability to neutralize Omi, compared with only two doses.
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"Science" publishes paper to uncover key mechanism of immune response
Time of Update: 2022-05-16
A new study published in Science this week found the answer, revealing the full process by which immune cells enter tissues .
▲ When the macrophages enter, the ectoderm cells in front of them turn round (Image source: Maria Akhmanova)In a recent study, Prof.
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Nature: Newly discovered T cells are expected to become a new force in immunotherapy
Time of Update: 2022-05-15
A recently discovered type of immune cell could be a new force in immunotherapy, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center report .
Since innate-like killer T cells can recognize unmutated antigens, why do they not cause autoimmunity .
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Xiao Yuxiu's group has made new progress in the rational design and application of dual-emitting lanthanide metal-organic frameworks
Time of Update: 2022-05-15
Recently, the Journal of Hazardous Materials (Journal of Hazardous Materials) published the latest progress made by Professor Xiao Yuxiu's group from the School of Pharmacy, Wuhan University in the rational design and application of dual-emitting lanthanide metal-organic frameworks.
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The Lancet: The third shot of a different type of new crown vaccine is better
Time of Update: 2022-05-15
A recent study in Brazil showed that both homologous and heterologous boosters (BNT162b2 and AZD1222) were safe and immunogenic following completion of two doses of Sinovac vaccine .
