Tensing muscles could help those with a fear of needles bring their blood pressure levels back to normal Up to 10 per cent of the UK population has trypanophobia – a fear of needles The symptoms will occur as the brain triggers the ‘fight or flight’ response Phobia can lead to people delaying or avoiding […]
You’re following public health guidelines this 2020 holiday season, so, naturally, you’re going to have fewer people at the dining room table. Which also brings about the very important question: What in the name of Kris Kringle are you going to cook? Here’s one very good recommendation: Instead of making a massive roast, make half […]
Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, have discovered that in the developing retina, and important part of the central nervous system, the divisions leading to the first differentiating neurons are asymmetric and that this asymmetry is necessary to generate the […]
COVID-19 has been found in conjunctival swabs and tears of infected patients, according to a new study published in The Ocular Surface. The discovery prompted a research team including Shahzad Mian, M.D., an ophthalmologist at Kellogg Eye Center, to analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 in human post-mortem ocular tissues. The results: the virus can infiltrate […]
Mutations in proteins called histone H1, which help package DNA in chromosomes, are a frequent cause of lymphomas, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and The Rockefeller University. The findings could lead to new approaches to treating these cancers. Scientists in recent years have observed that mutations in histone […]
In his latest video, fitness YouTuber Aseel Soueid takes viewers through an average day in his life, and explains that for the last 3 years, he has been using intermittent fasting while building and maintaining muscle, only eating 2 meals each day within a specific window of time. “Back in the day it used to […]
In severe cases of COVID-19 disease, not only classic immune cells play a role. In particular, the release of immature precursor cells from the bone marrow into the blood indicates a particularly severe course of the disease and could contribute to complications. This has been shown by an international research team involving the DFG Cluster […]
The interdisciplinary team of scientists from three different countries (Belgium, Italy, and Russia) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dmitri V. Krysko (Ghent University, Belgium) unravels the immunogenicity of ferroptotic cancer cells. Cell death is an essential biological process that plays an active role both during human embryonic development and in the onset of various […]
University of Melbourne public health leader and ophthalmologist, Professor Hugh Taylor said 2020 has presented additional challenges with COVID-19 leading to reduced access to eye screening, examination and surgery, all resulting in greater backlogs and patient waitlists. On the plus side, COVID-19 has led to a shift in the provision of soap, washing facilities and […]
New research into the HIV-1 virus has shed light on an important factor in the evolution of viruses, which is likely also to affect SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19). This new insight could have important implications for vaccine development. Differences in the cellular immune system in different human populations are now known to influence […]
