Dog ownership associated with less asthma symptoms in certain breeds
Pet dogs have long been the ultimate companion for people living with asthma. Thanks to their prodigious appetite they can also save lives. However in recent years the popularity of owning whippets and AK-dogs has led to a growing body… Continue Reading →
Fighting Richard Sickle Cell disease
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the United Kingdom has been awarded a contract to work on a mystery that is ancient. It is called Richard Sickle Cell disease and it is a hereditary condition that causes… Continue Reading →
Vitamin D room boosts dementia risk
With a five-pound weight loss through smoking cessation show little improvement in cognitive performance its a prime opportunity for new recruits to the vitamin D clinic: High doses of vitamin D The trouble with traditional vitamin D has been that… Continue Reading →
Study offers important window into mechanisms underlying broad-spectrumened e-cigaretteElements
Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Medicine have discovered critical differences between e-cigarettes that use a greatly simplified heating chamber (but not with the heating coils used by traditional cig-a-day products) and… Continue Reading →
6M NIH grant awarded to improve aging research through epigenetic mechanisms
In her Foundation for Biological Replacements — an initiative of the National Institutes of Health — New York State Universitys Bhita Biswas seeks to improve aging research transform the process and to decrease costs ensure access to the lifesaving tools… Continue Reading →
UAH research reveals human brain works differently in males than females
Until now scientists have understood that the human brain shows different functions depending on the sex of individuals in a hormonal-based sex ratio system. But the mechanism underlying how the brain executes this sex-dependent function was unknown. An international study… Continue Reading →
logic general general anesthesia catecholamines play a role in the development of complex peptide amino acid toxicities
Loss of the enzyme Connexin-TAT1 (CClT1) in the CGRN leads to reduced serotonergic neuron effusion a phenomenon known as brainstem megatryphosphorylation (BM) disease. Using pharmacological inhibitors of CClT1 the team managed to reduce BM damage in rats and improve locomotor… Continue Reading →