Monthly Archives: Settembre 2018
Bacterium Clostridium difficile : How bad bacteria gain an edge in the gut
The bacterium Clostridium difficile, which is responsible for the majority of antibiotic-associated diarrhea outbreaks worldwide, produces a unique compound called p-cresol to gain a...
Scientists say a gene involved in the body’s circadian rhythms is a potential target...
Scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute say a gene involved in the body's circadian rhythms is a potential target for therapies to...
Stem cells extracted from baby teeth were able to regenerate dental pulp
Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to a tooth during childhood.
When that...
Differences in the DNA within the mitochondria can determine the severity and progression of...
Differences in the DNA within the mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells, can determine the severity and progression of heart disease caused by a...
An inhaled form of a high blood pressure medication has potential to treat certain...
An inhaled form of a high blood pressure medication has potential to treat certain types of anxiety as well as pain, according to a...
A treatment for highly aggressive and commonly fatal pancreatic cancer is being developed
A treatment for highly aggressive and commonly fatal pancreatic cancer is being developed, reports a University of Houston researcher who has designed a new...
Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those...
Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using non-automatic weapons, although chances of dying if hit in...
First DNA-based test that allows for predicing risk of leukemia relapse
A group of Canadian and Korean scientists and physicians have developed the first DNA-based test that allows them to tell which patients will relapse...
A Yale research team has revealed how cells in different parts of the human...
A Yale research team has revealed how cells in different parts of the human airway vary in their response to the common cold virus.
Their...
High blood sugar during pregnancy ups risk of mother’s type 2 diabetes and child’s...
Mothers with elevated blood glucose during pregnancy—even if not high enough to meet the traditional definition of gestational diabetes—were significantly more likely to have...
Sarcolipin increases muscle energy expenditure and fat oxidization
Ever wonder why you burn fat and heat up when you exercise or shiver?
Now, researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have...
Pasta and cereal may actually help prevent type 2 diabetes
It may seem counterintuitive, but eating bread, pasta and cereal may actually help prevent type 2 diabetes, as long as those foods are made...
Why US healthcare costs so much ?
There is substantial waste in U.S. healthcare, but little consensus on how to identify or combat it.
New research from the University of Chicago Booth...
School of Public Health found that survivors of HPV-associated cancers have a high incidence...
A retrospective study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of...
Scientists from Waseda University developed bioadhesive, wirelessly powered light-emitting device that could better treat...
Scientists from Waseda University, the National Defense Medical College, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed a new bioadhesive, wirelessly powered light-emitting...
