Health
Nutritional needs during pregnancy and breastfeeding
March is National Nutrition Month, which makes this a good time to learn about your nutritional needs during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
Mar 17, 2023
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News tagged with blood protein
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A two-pronged approach to target critical malaria protein
A protein that plays a critical role in helping malaria parasites infect red blood cells—known as apical membrane protein 1 (AMA1)—has been found to bind to more than one receptor on the surface of the cells.
Mar 3, 2023
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Medical research
Scientists study proteins to understand Alzheimer's, degenerative brain disorders
Nearly 120 years after Alois Alzheimer reported what he learned from studying the brain of a patient who suffered from symptoms of what we now call "Alzheimer's disease," researchers are still struggling to understand the ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Pediatrics
Getting your child ready for spring sports
Spring sports season will be here soon, so it's time to get kids ready after a winter break.
Feb 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Tobacco and e-cigs may put healthy young people at risk of severe COVID illness, new research suggests
New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase healthy young people's risk for developing severe COVID illness.
Feb 9, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Harmful effects of long-term alcohol use documented in blood protein snapshot
Biochemist Jon Jacobs has analyzed the blood of patients with diseases and conditions such as Ebola, cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis, diabetes, Lyme disease, brain injury and influenza.
Feb 9, 2023
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Diabetes
Do you need an insulin-resistance diet?
People with health conditions like type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes or polycystic ovarian syndrome may have been advised about the value of an insulin-resistance diet.
Feb 3, 2023
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Immunology
How regulatory T cells halt aberrant, self-reactive T cells
New research findings show in detail how self-reactive T cells—white blood cells that mistakenly attack healthy instead of infected cells, thereby causing an autoimmune or an inflammatory response—are held in check by ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's: Blood biomarker may help identify the disease ten years before symptoms start
Though Alzheimer's disease affects more than 55 million people worldwide, there's still no cure for the condition—and treatment options are limited.
Jan 19, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Scientists developing early Alzheimer's disease detection sensor
Researchers with the SFU Nanodevice Fabrication Group are developing a new biosensor that can be used to screen for Alzheimer's disease and other diseases. An overview of their work has been recently published in the journal ...
Jan 18, 2023
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