Medicine

Certain mushroom species are high in two antioxidants — glutathione and ergothioneine — that may help with anti-aging treatments and strategies, according to a new study published in the journal Food Chemistry. Mushrooms contain unusually high amounts of antioxidants called glutathione and ergothioneine. Image credit: Jan Plywacz. “We found that …

Colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, and other gut diseases could be better treated — or even prevented — thanks to a newly-discovered link between a cellular process called autophagy and inflammation. The findings of a research team at the University of Warwick are published in the journal Nature Communications. Tusco et …

An international group of scientists has demonstrated that iridium — a very hard, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group — can be used to kill cancer cells by filling them with deadly version of oxygen, without harming healthy tissue. The study is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Pieces …

Personal genetic testing firm 23andMe sells genetic testing kits to consumers as a business, but it also contributes useful medical data that could help cure disease. The company has announced an expansion of its Parkinson’s disease research in cooperation with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The foundation …

A bone-derived hormone called osteocalcin is known to affect how we metabolize sugar and fat. In a new study, Professor Mathieu Ferron of the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and co-authors have investigated how osteocalcin works. The results may open the door to new ways of …

A small, simple improvement in diet over the long-term — such as replacing one sugary beverage with a serving of nuts each day — may significantly reduce the risk of premature death, according to new research. Sotos-Prieto et al show that modifying dietary habits can have a significant impact on …

Researchers from the European project ‘Automatic Detection of VAscular Networks for Cancer Evaluation’ (ADVANCE) have developed the world’s first scanner that detects blood vessels grown by a malignant melanoma with an infrared laser beam in 30 seconds. Current skin cancer diagnosis can last a number of weeks and be very …

In a new study published in the journal eLife, Dr. Andrew Cowburn of the University of Cambridge and co-authors show that skin helps regulate blood pressure and heart rate in response to changes in the amount of oxygen available in the environment. Structure of the skin. Image credit: OpenStax College …

A team of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has discovered a conserved molecular pathway that controls lifespan and healthspan in mice and nematode worms Caenorhabditis elegans, a common model organism in biological research. KLFs are a subfamily of zinc finger transcriptional regulators with highly characterized …

An international team of researchers has found a way to slow the progression of an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of irreversible, severe vision loss in Western countries. Dry age-related macular degeneration is one of the most common causes of vision loss in people over …