Medical research

Fatty fish consumption found to increase cell membrane fluidity

Eating fatty fish decreased the lipophilic index in people with impaired glucose metabolism or coronary heart disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The lipophilic index is considered a ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Another angle on Alzheimer's: CSF, proteomics, and metabolic enzymes

Currently there are no objective, easily assessed diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease, and no good therapeutic options. Taking an agnostic approach, proteomics expert Hanno Steen, Ph.D., and neurobiologist Judith Steen, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Transcription factor prevents bone frailty in chronic kidney disease

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that the overexpression of a transcription factor prevented bone loss in mouse models of chronic kidney disease, according to a recent study published in the Journal of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers link environmental exposures to liver disease

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a diverse range of environmental chemicals in human bile in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare, chronic liver disease of the bile ducts. The study, published in Exposome, ...

Inflammatory disorders

Study may explain why high-sugar diets can worsen IBD

Excess sugar hampers cells that renew the colon's lining in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh scientists.

Medical research

Cells can use uridine, a component of RNA, as a source of energy

Our bodies burn carbohydrates, proteins, and fat for fuel, and now, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of Lausanne have discovered another important energy source for cells: uridine, ...

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