First smart speaker for contactless observing of both reguilar and unpredictable heartbeats Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 Wise speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. By way of instance, researchers at the University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or track babies breathing. But what about monitoring something even smaller: the moment motion of individual …
UMD receives grant to explore nettle as a functional food for improving health Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 Obesity, diabetes, and overall immune system health are problems that are all top-of-mind at the moment, particularly during the pandemic. To analyze how your diet can help prevent problems with these chronic diseases, the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and …
Compounds in green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 A new study from the University of California, Irvine shows that chemicals in both black and green tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. Released in Cellular Physiology …
Killing antibodies actuated by COVID-19 vaccines less successful against new variants Kumar Jeetendra | March 15, 2021 SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has mutated through the pandemic. New variants of this virus have arisen around the world, including variants that might possess increased capacity to spread or evade the immune system. Such variations have been identified in California, Denmark, the U.K., South Africa and Brazil/Japan. Recognizing how well the COVID-19 vaccines …
Scientists portray regions of DNA that sway MECP2 expression Kumar Jeetendra | March 19, 2021 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (NRI) have identified and characterized two regions of DNA required for the proper expression of Mecp2/MECP2 in mice and humans. These findings, published in Genes & Development, are helping to shed light on the purpose of …
Secret genetic defects can prompt a wide range of serious illnesses Kumar Jeetendra | March 20, 2021 For the first time researchers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Radboudumc, Maastricht UMC+ and worldwide colleagues have gained insight to the”hidden genetic defects” of the general European population. This is important as these defects, if inherited from the father and mother, can result in all kinds of disorders in their children. Research in the Dutch …
Researcher find a gene mutation connected to schizophrenia Kumar Jeetendra | March 24, 2021 Researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, in collaboration with Columbia University, have identified a gene mutation that could result in schizophrenia, a chronic brain disease that affects nearly 1 percent of the planet’s inhabitants. The findings, published in today in Neuron, could lead to novel treatment strategies. The research group, headed by Todd …
Researchers discover proof that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells in the mouth Kumar Jeetendra | March 25, 2021 An international group of scientists has discovered evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects cells in the mouth. While it’s well known that the upper airways and lungs are primary sites of SARS-CoV-2 disease, there are clues the virus can infect cells in different parts of the body, like the digestive system, blood …
Researchers describe the systems that manage embryonic stem cells Kumar Jeetendra | March 26, 2021 Scientists at the Proteomics Core Unit of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by Javier Muñoz, have clarified the mechanisms, unknown to date, included in maintaining embryonic stem cells in the best possible condition for their use in regenerative medicine. The results, published in Nature Communications, helps to find novel stem-cell therapies for …
Scientists recognize neural circuit associated with reciprocally controlling weight gain and despondency Kumar Jeetendra | March 27, 2021 Research has found that obesity and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety seem to often go together. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and cooperating institutions are providing new insights into this association by identifying and characterizing a novel neural circuit that mediates the reciprocal control of feeding and mental conditions in mouse models. …
Scientists use genetics to recognize likely drugs for early administration of COVID-19 Kumar Jeetendra | April 12, 2021 A new study using human genetics indicates researchers should prioritize clinical trials of drugs that target two proteins to manage COVID-19 in its early stages. The findings appeared online in the journal Nature Medicine at March 2021. The purpose is to identify present drugs, either FDA-approved or in clinical development for other conditions, that can …
Imbalanced bacterial community in the gums connected to Alzheimer’s infection biomarker Kumar Jeetendra | April 12, 2021 Older adults with more harmful than healthy bacteria in their gums are more likely to have evidence for amyloid beta–a key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease–in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), according to new research from NYU College of Dentistry and Weill Cornell Medicine. However, this imbalance in oral bacteria was not associated with another Alzheimer’s biomarker …
