Credit: UnsplashA group of scientists from Helmholtz Munich has identified a new use for vitamin K, typically recognized for its part in blood clotting. In its fully reduced configuration, the researchers discovered that vitamin K operates as an anti-oxidant by efficiently inhibiting ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is a natural kind of cell death in...
Times 5 magnification of colonies of Burkholderia pseudomallei on Ashdown's agar after 4 days' incubation. Credit: wikipediaFor the first time, a possibly fatal strain of bacteria has been identified within the United States's soil and water, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ask healthcare professionals to look out for signs and...
Credit: Guido Mieth/Getty ImagesDoctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say an abnormally high number of harmful viral infections have been detected among infants throughout the United States this year, including one uncommonly large cluster of almost two dozen cases at a single hospital in Tennessee.The infections- a result of a typical...
More than 300 people in 21 nations outside Africa have been infected with the illness.Monkeypox (orange), shown infecting monkey cells (green) in this colorized electron micrograph, has spread to multiple countries outside Africa. The large outbreak is unusual for the virus, which is transmitted by close contact. NIAID/FLICKR (CC BY 2.0)An outbreak of monkeypox...
A woman feeling the cold inside a house. Credit: iStock.We all have distinct preferences for when it is the correct time to draw out winter blankets. And the thermostat's setup frequently forms the basis of office debates between women and men concerning the "appropriate" temperature for it to be configured.Between the sexes, there is...
Dogs to detect COVID-19. Credit: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.A current research by the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital affirmed that scent detection dogs can be taught to recognize people with a coronavirus infection from skin swabs. In the experimental set-up at Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, the dogs' accuracy in...
Research study: Signs and symptom variant, connections, and relationship to physical activity in Long Covid: an intensive longitudinal study. Credit: The Science Advisory board.In a recent study posted to the medRxiv preprint web server. Researchers reviewed associations between physical activity as well as long coronavirus disease (COVID) signs.History Post-acute sequelae of COVID 2019 (COVID-19)...
A study led by the Murdoch Children Research Institute (MCRI) found that multiple infections in infancy could put adults at a higher risk of heart disease, obesity, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.A possible relation between infant infections and the chance of heart disease has been discoveredNewborns have weakened body immune systems. Therefore, they are...
Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image GalleryProteins and prostate cancerAccording to a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators, targeting a particular protein that is often overexpressed in prostate cancer can help avoid or postpone the disease from infecting other parts of the body.The research study, released in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, opens up...
Illustration of a healthy human heart. Credit: Liya Graphics/ ShutterstockRegardless of reduced absolute risk, Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine linked with a raised risk of carditis.Considerably increased risk in teenagers after the second dosage may call for sophisticated vaccination strategies.A case-control research study found an elevated relative risk of carditis associated with BNT162b2 (also known...
