Medicine

Vegetable, fruit, and orange juice consumption may be associated with a lower risk of memory loss in men, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study by Yuan et al supports a long-term beneficial role of vegetable, fruit, and orange juice consumption …

Alzheimer’s disease is the most well-known and most common type of age-related dementia. Amyloid plaques and tau tangles are both pathological hallmarks of the disease. A new study in mice shows that a novel DNA vaccine delivered to the skin prompts an immune response that reduces buildup of tau and …

Researchers from the University of Oxford and PsiOxus Therapeutics have successfully adapted an oncolytic adenovirus that specifically kills cancer cells, to synthesize a peptide linker that approximates cytotoxic T-cells to cancer-associated fibroblasts in order to eliminate these supportive accomplices. Cancer cells (black) and nearby fibroblasts (red) being killed (green flashes) …

Levels of exposure to outdoor air pollution among children with intellectual disabilities are significantly higher than those of children without intellectual disabilities, according to a study carried out by Lancaster University researchers. Exposure to outdoor air pollution may be one of the pathways that contribute to the health inequities experienced …

A new study, published in the journal Cell Reports, shows improvements in overall health and brain health, as well as learning and memory in lab mice that were fed an unrestricted low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet. Calorie restriction (CR) and low-protein, high-carbohydrate (LPHC) diets improve cardiometabolic health in mice. Wahl et al …

A team of researchers from Japan, Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has identified an alkaloid compound in a Congolese species of liana that inhibits the survival of pancreatic cancer cells under nutrient-deprived conditions. Ancistrocladus sp. Image credit: Eigenes Werk / CC BY-SA 3.0. Human pancreatic cancer cells …

An international team of scientists, led by University of Texas and Karolinska Institutet researchers, has created a small anti-inflammatory molecule with a new mechanism of action. Model of TH5487-mediated inhibition of proinflammatory gene expression: inflammation, at its onset and throughout its progress, is associated with generation of reactive oxygen species, …

Low-dose treatment with trimethylamine N-oxide — a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet — reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Physiology – …

Exposure to blue light significantly decreases systolic blood pressure and increases heart rate, lowering the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, a study led by University of Surrey’s Professor Christian Heiss has found. Whole body irradiation with visible blue light improves blood pressure. Image credit: Daniel Reche. “Previous studies have shown …

A new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, shows that a number of polyphenolic compounds found in brewed coffee can inhibit the aggregation of beta-amyloid and tau — protein fragments common in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Drinking coffee may protect you against developing both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. …