WNT messenger proteins are crucial for a variety of cellular functions. A specific WNT messenger can increase muscle mass and improve regeneration in skeletal muscle. This makes them promising candidates for the treatment of diseases associated with muscular atrophy. Unfortunately, their enormous size and "stickiness," hampered therapeutic applications so far. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute […]

Did Covid rob you of your taste or smell? It might mean you’ve got strong immunity Researchers more likely to detect antibodies in people who had the symptoms It was suggested this was because immune cells killed infected ones In the early stages of infection this is mostly cells linked to smell and taste  It […]

Nearly half of childbearing-age Latinas in the U.S. currently live in states that ban or restrict abortions, UCLA researchers report, and the percentage of Latinas of childbearing age in each of those states is significantly higher than among their white counterparts. The findings, from a study released today by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics […]

While the COVID-19 vaccines held center stage over the last couple of years, something else was happening behind the scenes: a dip in the rate of children and adults getting their non-COVID vaccinations, including flu, measles, smallpox, and shingles, among others. An estimated 37 million children and adults in the United States missed some or […]

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Georgetown University and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, used a computational method to directly measure tumors, showing that hypertranscription is ubiquitous across cancers. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the […]

Taxi drivers, police officers and now… GPs! Emergency NHS plan to cover striking ambulance workers asks busy family doctors to help 999 crews GP practices across England have received an ‘urgent request’ from the NHS They have been asked to cover when ambulance staff walk out from next week READ MORE: Patients may be taken […]

In a recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers measured the antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from nasal fluid, saliva, and plasma to compare the antibody levels between blood and mucosal fluids. Study: Comparison of levels of nasal, salivary, and plasma antibody to SARS-CoV-2 during natural infection […]

The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from states to let them import medicine from Canada to help lower prescription drug costs. Colorado on Dec. 5 became at least the fourth state to seek federal permission to use the strategy, following Florida, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. President Joe Biden has endorsed the approach, but […]

High levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be associated with an 18-20% higher risk of cardiovascular disease among people who have hypertension, however, CVD risk was not higher among those without hypertension, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal. High blood pressure is a known cardiovascular […]

Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), a noninvasive laser light therapy, can improve short-term memory in young adults when applied to the right prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the brain, new research suggests. Investigators compared the effect of 1064 nm of tPBM delivered over a 12-minute session to the right PFC vs three other treatment arms: delivery of the […]