Protein bombs! Energy bars! Breakfast drinks! Can you trust the new shakes and snacks that claim they can replace ALL meals… What do YOU think? Recent studies show we’re far more likely to make healthy food choices when we sit down at the dinner table, than we are when eating alone or on-the-go Sitting down […]
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Fluorescing urine signals organ transplant rejection, could replace needle biopsies
Too often, it’s only after a transplanted organ has sustained serious damage that a biopsy reveals the organ is in rejection. A new screening method using sensor particles and a urine test could catch rejection much earlier, more comprehensively, and without a biopsy needle. When the body’s immune system has just begun attacking cells of […]
Researchers hope to be able to replace dysfunctional brain cells
A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet supports the theory that replacement of dysfunctional immune cells in the brain has therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s disease. The study, which involved repopulating the brain with new immune cells in an experimental disease model, is published in Nature Communications. Macrophages are immune […]