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Potential metabolism target could slow or prevent breast cancer metastasis

Cancer cells - especially the more aggressive ones - seem to have an ability to change. It's how they evade treatment and spread throughout the body.

4 Oct 2019

Exploiting the weak spot in pathogenic bacteria to develop new antibiotics

Antibiotics are still the most important weapon for combatting bacterial infections. But medical science is running out of "ammunition" because of more and more frequently occurring resistances.

4 Oct 2019

How mothers transfer the DNA inside their mitochondria to their babies

A recent study has revealed how DNA inside the cell's powerhouse comes from the mother's side.

4 Oct 2019

Researchers identify new targets to treat fibrotic diseases

When it comes to repairing injured tissue, specialized cells in the body known as fibroblasts are called into action. Fibroblasts give rise to healing cells called myofibroblasts, which generally is good in the short term - but bad when myofibroblast activation gets out of hand.

4 Oct 2019

Short-term probiotic therapy regimen may improve symptoms of gout, kidney disease

New research suggests that an individualized probiotic therapy regimen may improve symptoms of gout, gout-related kidney disease and other signs of metabolic syndrome.

4 Oct 2019

Researchers discover metabolic vulnerability in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes

A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center reports it has discovered a metabolic vulnerability in multiple types of cancer cells that bear a common genetic mutation affecting cellular machines called spliceosomes.

From Johns Hopkins Medicine 3 Oct 2019

Gut bacterial profile can predict gut damage following radiotherapy

Rather like a physical fingerprint, the gut microbial pattern can be used to identify certain vulnerabilities in patients who are undergoing radiation therapy for prostate or gynecologic cancer, predicting which of them are most likely to suffer damage to the intestine.

3 Oct 2019

Eating fish in pregnancy could improve attentiveness in children

A study published on October 3, 2019, in the International Journal of Epidemiology shows that babies whose mothers ate more seafood in the first three months of pregnancy showed greater attention capacity at eight years of age.

3 Oct 2019

Hyperthyroidism and severe hypothyroidism associated with overall unhealthy status, shorter lifespan

Herein, the authors show, using wild-type and the Pax8 ablated model of hypothyroidism in mice, that hyperthyroidism and severe hypothyroidism are associated with an overall unhealthy status and shorter lifespan.

3 Oct 2019

$Clinical recommendations issued for prevention of secondary fracture among older adults$

Clinical recommendations issued for prevention of secondary fracture among older adults

A multistakeholder coalition assembled by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research has issued clinical recommendations for the optimal prevention of secondary fracture among people aged 65 years and older with a hip or vertebral fracture - the most serious complication associated with osteoporosis.

2 Oct 2019

New discovery could lead to better treatment and prevention of heart disease, diabetes

Researchers at Cornell University have uncovered a key step in how the human body metabolizes sugar, which could lead to better treatment and prevention of heart disease, obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

2 Oct 2019

High-fat diet with high fructose damages mitochondria in the liver, study shows

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have found that high levels of fructose in the diet inhibit the liver's ability to properly metabolize fat.

1 Oct 2019

Texas Biomed researchers zeroing in on new way to target TB with $2.8 million NIH grant

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute are zeroing in on a new way to target tuberculosis infection. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $2.8 million grant for scientists to study the role of lung macrophages (immune cells) in metabolic and inflammation responses to TB.

1 Oct 2019

New study helps better understand how type 2 diabetes progresses as a disease

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have unlocked the key to clearly identifying diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes.

1 Oct 2019

UK-based scientists aim to make infant formula more like human breast milk

UK-based scientists have engineered plants to produce an oil that mimics the chemical structure of human milk fat, a major component of breast milk.

1 Oct 2019

Wistar researcher receives NIH Director's Award to study link between diet, alcohol use and cancer

The National Institutes of Health today announced that Zachary T. Schug, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program at The Wistar Institute, was awarded the prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award in support of his research on the link between a high sugar/fat diet, alcohol use and cancer.

1 Oct 2019

Optoceutics technique opens up new horizons for regenerative medicine

Using light to facilitate the formation of new blood vessels: it is the breakthrough outcome of a research study carried out by researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milan (Italy). The study was published in Science Advances.

30 Sep 2019

UC experts explore if ketogenic diet could help make treatments for glioblastoma

Investigators at the University of Cincinnati are studying whether or not a modified Atkins-type ketogenic diet could help make treatments for a common, but dangerous, type of brain cancer called glioblastoma more effective.

30 Sep 2019

Potency and dosage of statins linked to diagnosis of osteoporosis

A team of researchers of MedUni Vienna working with the endocrinologists and gender physicians Michael Leutner and Alexandra Kautzky-Willer as well the division for complex statistical systems with Peter Klimek and Caspar Matzhold in cooperation with Complexity Science Hub Vienna were able to demonstrate for the first time a connection between the potency and dosage of statins with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, based on several million data sets.

30 Sep 2019

Carnegie biologists discover possible therapeutic target for slow healing of aged muscles

An age-related decline in recovery from muscle injury can be traced to a protein that suppresses the special ability of muscle stem cells to build new muscles, according to work from a team of current and former Carnegie biologists led by Chen-Ming Fan and published in Nature Metabolism.

30 Sep 2019

Metabolism News and Research

Latest Metabolism News and Research

Potential metabolism target could slow or prevent breast cancer metastasis

Exploiting the weak spot in pathogenic bacteria to develop new antibiotics

How mothers transfer the DNA inside their mitochondria to their babies

Researchers identify new targets to treat fibrotic diseases

Short-term probiotic therapy regimen may improve symptoms of gout, kidney disease

Researchers discover metabolic vulnerability in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes

Gut bacterial profile can predict gut damage following radiotherapy

Eating fish in pregnancy could improve attentiveness in children

Hyperthyroidism and severe hypothyroidism associated with overall unhealthy status, shorter lifespan

Clinical recommendations issued for prevention of secondary fracture among older adults

New discovery could lead to better treatment and prevention of heart disease, diabetes

High-fat diet with high fructose damages mitochondria in the liver, study shows

Texas Biomed researchers zeroing in on new way to target TB with $2.8 million NIH grant

New study helps better understand how type 2 diabetes progresses as a disease

UK-based scientists aim to make infant formula more like human breast milk

Wistar researcher receives NIH Director's Award to study link between diet, alcohol use and cancer

Optoceutics technique opens up new horizons for regenerative medicine

UC experts explore if ketogenic diet could help make treatments for glioblastoma

Potency and dosage of statins linked to diagnosis of osteoporosis

Carnegie biologists discover possible therapeutic target for slow healing of aged muscles

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