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Jun 17, 2022
Exercise pill could curb food cravings for people who lack physical activity
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
STANFORD, Calif. — An “anti-hunger” pill could be on the horizon, according to a new study. Researchers from Stanford Medicine and Baylor University have identified a molecule that keeps people from getting hungry after exercising.
In experiments, the compound dramatically reduced food intake and obesity in mice. Study authors hope to turn it into a medication that may even replace the need to go to the gym.
Jun 17, 2022
Musk sued for $367 billion over ‘Dogecoin Crypto Pyramid Scheme’
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in categories: biotech/medical, cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk, humor, lifeboat
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Tiktok Mechanic This drug is for the illness alopecia areata.
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Jun 17, 2022
Wonder Drug Could Provide Protection Against Depression
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
With 17.3 million adult Americans affected, depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders in the country. A gloomy or depressed mood that lasts for two weeks or more is considered major depression.
Depression is distinct from common mood swings and brief emotional reactions to problems in daily life. Depression may develop into a serious medical condition, particularly if it is recurring and of moderate to severe intensity. The afflicted individual may experience severe suffering and perform badly at work, in school, and with family. In the worst cases, depression might result in suicide.
Since its introduction in the late 1980s to prevent heart attack and stroke, statins have been hailed as a wonder drug and prescribed to tens of millions of individuals. However, some research has suggested that the medications may still have other benefits, particularly those for mental health. A recent study investigates the impact of statins on the emotional bias, a risk factor for depression. The study appears in Biological Psychiatry and was published by Elsevier.
Jun 17, 2022
How a particle accelerator works
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
Los Alamos National Lab
In early June 1972, the world’s most intense proton beam was delivered through nearly a mile of vacuum tanks at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, or LANSCE. As the facility has evolved over five decades, that proton beam is now delivered to five state-of-the-art experimental areas, including the Isotope Production Facility.
Jun 16, 2022
A 16th-century mummy helped scientists rebuild the DNA of an E.coli cell
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, food
Jun 16, 2022
Genetic discovery could spell mosquitoes’ death knell
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, education, genetics
A UC Riverside genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or multiplying.
In 2018, UCR entomologist Naoki Yamanaka found, contrary to accepted scientific wisdom, that an important steroid hormone requires transporter proteins to enter or exit fruit fly cells. The hormone, ecdysone, is called the “molting hormone.” Without it, flies will never mature, or reproduce.
Before his discovery, textbooks taught that ecdysone travels freely across cell membranes, slipping past them with ease. “We now know that’s not true,” Yamanaka said.
Jun 16, 2022
Scientists develop vaccine to cure deadly cancer
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The survival rate for patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is grim. The average survival time is up to 3 and a half years. Scientists may have a cure in the form of a vaccine thanks to scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Jun 16, 2022
DNA evolves at different rates, depending on chromosome structure
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, evolution, genetics
The structure of how DNA is stored in archaea makes a significant difference to how quickly it evolves, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.
The study, led by molecular biologist Stephen Bell, Distinguished Professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington, was recently published in Nature Microbiology. Its findings have the potential to impact research on the treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer.
“The most exciting thing we revealed is the idea that the shape of a DNA molecule can affect its ability to change,” Bell said. “In the early 20th century, modernist architecture had the idea that the form of a building should follow its function. But what we’re seeing in these organisms is that over time, form is actually affecting evolution. How DNA is structured can change it, creating an evolutionary feedback loop.”
Jun 16, 2022
New drug for hair loss approved by FDA
Posted by Future Timeline in category: biotech/medical
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved baricitinib (trade name Olumiant), a drug that restores hair growth and can be used as a treatment for alopecia areata.