Brain Cells Decide on Their Own When To Release “Feel Good” Pleasure Hormone
In addition to smoothing out wrinkles, researchers have found that the drug Botox can reveal the inner workings of the brain. A new study used it to show that feedback…
Popular diet trend could reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease — ScienceDaily
Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, according to a…
Children’s dislike of cauliflower, broccoli could be written in their microbiome — ScienceDaily
Many children, as well as adults, dislike Brassica vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts. In the mouth, enzymes from these vegetables and from bacteria in saliva can…
Sonic hedgehog protein pathway stimulation could help Parkinson’s patients — ScienceDaily
Levodopa, or L-dopa, is considered the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease today. After a few years of treatment, however, almost all patients develop a debilitating side-effect called L-dopa induced…
Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19
By U.S. Food and Drug Administration September 21, 2021 COVID-19. We’ve been living with it for what sometimes seems like forever. Given the number of deaths that have occurred from…
Coevolutionary methods enable robust design of modular repressors by reestablishing intra-protein interactions
Coevolutionary cues help reestablish module-module interactions in hybrid repressors In this study, we harnessed our DBM-LBM compatibility model to predict mutations that are expected to improve the functionality of hybrid…
Robust neuronal differentiation of human iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells cultured on densely-spaced spiky silicon nanowire arrays
1. Dolmetsch, R. & Geschwind, D. H. The human brain in a dish: The promise of iPSC-derived neurons. Cell 145, 831–834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.05.034 (2011). CAS Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar …
Probiotics maintain the gut microbiome homeostasis during Indian Antarctic expedition by ship
1. Rydstedt, L. W. & Lundh, M. An ocean of stress? The relationship between psychosocial workload and mental strain among engine officers in the Swedish merchant fleet. Int. Marit. Health…
Ene-reductase transformation of massoia lactone to δ-decalactone in a continuous-flow reactor
Ene-reductase screening The first stage of the study was the selection of enzymes capable of reducing C=C double bond in (R)-(–)-massoia lactone (1) (Fig. 1), obtained by extraction from the Cryptocaria…
Isochoric supercooled preservation and revival of human cardiac microtissues
Preservation—cooling The cooling protocol follows the trajectory plotted in Fig. 1f. First, on a 37 °C hotplate (Tokai Hit, Gendoji-cho, Japan), each MPS was flushed by gravity perfusion with 200 μL phosphate-buffered saline…
