Archive: 28/04/2016
New study expands potential applications for stool transplants
For the first time, scientists studying stool transplants have been able to track which strains of bacteria from a donor take hold in a patient's gut after a transplant. The team, led by EMBL with collaborators at Wageningen ...
Apr 28, 2016
Researchers discover potential treatment for sepsis and other responses to infection
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say that tiny doses of a cancer drug may stop the raging, uncontrollable immune response to infection that leads to sepsis and kills up to 500,000 people a year in ...
Apr 28, 2016
A vitamin that stops the aging process of organs
Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is pretty amazing. It has already been shown in several studies to be effective in boosting metabolism. And now a team of researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Integrated Systems Physiology (LISP), ...
Apr 28, 2016
US teen birth rate plunges to all-time low (Update)
The US teen birth rate has plunged to an all-time low, driven by sharp declines among African Americans and Hispanics since 2006, health authorities said Thursday.
Apr 28, 2016