A recently found gene could influence lifespan
Researchers found that among all proteins, one protein-OSER1, greatly influences longevity.
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Clinical Trials Observed Cardiovascular Death and Worsening Heart Failure Reduced by Finerenone
The rates of heart failure events and cardiovascular death were lower in the finerenone group compared with the placebo group.
Research finds Alzheimer’s like changes in COVID-19 patients
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.
Researchers map fifty thousand of the human genome’s cryptic “knots” of DNA
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.
Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a cellular population in the brain
The researchers collected several thousand cells in each brain from a region of the brain that is affected by Alzheimer’s and ageing.
Spike mutations promote brain infection by SARS-CoV-2
Here the investigators infected mice with SARS-CoV-2 and sequenced the genomes of viruses replicating in the brain versus the lung. In the lung, spike protein had a very close structure to the infecting virus.
Our Brain Cells Are Being Flinged by Mitochondria with Their DNA
Mitochondria live in all our cells, but unlike other organelles, mitochondria sport their own DNA—a small, circular strand with about three dozen genes.
Activity-driven brain wiring even during early embryonic development
The researchers focused on mouse retinal ganglion cells in the study, which project from the retina to the superior colliculus a part of the brain where they synapse onto downstream target neurons.
Environmental Bacteria Could Form Better Antibiotics
Results showed that the deletion of a protein, OpgH, in a model bacterium, Caulobacter crescentus, sets off an event cascade that ultimately splits apart the protective, bubble-like cell envelope, eventually killing the cell.
Latest findings show the clues for the ageing immune system
One of the curious features of the thymus, however, is that it serves as the very first organ in our body to become small with age.
