When penicillin was discovered, it was heralded as “the silver bullet” because of its extraordinary ability to eradicate germs that cause illness without endangering humans. Since then, several other antibiotics have been created that target a variety of bacteria; however, the more frequently these antibiotics are used, the higher the […]
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre have shown that while fever raises immune cell metabolism, proliferation, and activity, it also causes mitochondrial stress, DNA damage, and cell death in a specific subgroup of T cells. Their findings were published in the journal Science Immunology. The corresponding author of the current […]
The report states that vascular dementia is the second most frequent subtype of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Still, the two illnesses are different clinically.
A novel vaccine candidate that offers protection against Lassa fever has been developed by researchers from Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, in partnership with the Geneva Foundation and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). In preclinical animal models, the study, which […]
A Phase 1/2 trial included 15 individuals in total, among them three pediatric patients. The patients all suffered from the disease Leber congenital amaurosis caused by a gene that is essential in making proteins crucial to vision.
Researchers found that among all proteins, one protein-OSER1, greatly influences longevity.
The rates of heart failure events and cardiovascular death were lower in the finerenone group compared with the placebo group.
This new research, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, suggested that the cognitive impairments of COVID-19 presented similar fundamental changes within the brain to those showing evidence of dementia.
A landmark 2018 study, Garvan scientists were the first in the world to directly observe i-motifs inside living human cells using a new antibody tool they had developed, that was able specifically to bind to them.
The researchers collected several thousand cells in each brain from a region of the brain that is affected by Alzheimer’s and ageing.
