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  • Scientists discover key gene impacts liver energy storage, affecting metabolic disease risk

    Scientists discover key gene impacts liver energy storage, affecting metabolic disease risk

    A new study published in Science Advances reveals that a single gene plays a big role in how the liver stores energy, a process that’s critical for overall health and for managing diseases like type 2 diabetes. Led by Penn Nursing’s Kate Townsend Creasy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, the research focuses on the PPP1R3B gene. This gene tells the liver how to handle energy: store it as glycogen (a form of sugar) or…

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  • Could personality tests help make bipolar disorder treatment more precise?

    Could personality tests help make bipolar disorder treatment more precise?

    People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests.

    But care for mental health conditions hasn’t gotten to that point yet.

    Now, a new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests.

    The research finds that such tests might help identify people who have certain combinations of personality traits…

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  • NFL QB Alex Smith’s Necrotizing Fasciitis, Pain & Mental Struggles

    NFL QB Alex Smith’s Necrotizing Fasciitis, Pain & Mental Struggles

    WARNING: This article will contain graphic images of leg wounds.

    A tall and handsome professional athlete with a wife and kids, former NFL quarterback Alex Smith had it all. Until he didn’t. In 2018, Smith sustained a leg injury on the field that fractured his tibia and fibula in multiple locations. The harrowing events that…

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  • Did Horses Trigger The 1918 Flu Pandemic?

    Did Horses Trigger The 1918 Flu Pandemic?

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  • AI-powered app enables anemia screening using fingernail selfies

    AI-powered app enables anemia screening using fingernail selfies

    Anemia affects more than 2 billion people worldwide, including an estimated 83 million Americans at high risk. Now, a new app delivers reliable, accessible screening directly to consumers.

    A new study co-authored by Chapman University professor and founding dean of the Fowler School of Engineering, Dr. L. Andrew Lyon, unveils a major advancement in noninvasive health technology: a smartphone app that uses artificial intelligence and a photo of a user’s fingernail to detect…

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  • Relieve your pain with a psychologist or an app

    Relieve your pain with a psychologist or an app

    Psychological treatment can relieve pain. New research from Aarhus BSS now shows what happens in the brain — and what specific treatments psychologists, doctors and patients can turn to.

    Back pain, migraines, arthritis, long-term concussion symptoms, complications following cancer treatment.

    These are just a few of the conditions linked to chronic pain, which affects one in five adults — and for which medication is not always the answer.

    Now, a new review study offers insight into how…

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  • How antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works

    How antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works

    In a new article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic fusidic acid? With a stop-motion movie at the atomic level, they can show that the resistance protein FusB works nearly like a crowbar.

    Antibiotic resistance is a global issue that requires action and research at many levels. This study…

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  • One in ten asthma cases can be avoided with a better urban environment

    One in ten asthma cases can be avoided with a better urban environment

    The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a new study conducted as part of a major EU collaboration led by researchers from Karolinska Institutet.

    The study covers nearly 350,000 people of different ages, from 14 cohorts in seven European countries. Information on home addresses of each individual made it possible to link data on various environmental risks in the urban…

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  • A step closer to the confident production of blood stem cells for regenerative medicine

    A step closer to the confident production of blood stem cells for regenerative medicine

    Researchers from the Stem Cells and Cancer team at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute have developed a method to confidently produce blood cell precursors from stem cells in mice, by activating a set of seven key genes in the laboratory. The team, led by Dr Anna Bigas, takes a step forward towards the production of precursor cells able to restore the bone marrow of blood cancer patients, in a successful example of regenerative…

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  • How do middle-aged folks get dementia? It could be these proteins

    How do middle-aged folks get dementia? It could be these proteins

    Dementia usually affects older people, so when it occurs in middle age, it can be hard to recognize. The most common form is frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is often mistaken for depression, schizophrenia, or Parkinson’s disease before the correct diagnosis is reached.

    Now, as part of an NIH-funded study, researchers at UC San Francisco have found some clues about how FTD develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more patients into clinical trials. The findings appear in…

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