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June 15, 2024

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Protein Study Could Help Researchers Develop New Antibiotics

June 10, 2024 — A team has found a way to make the bacterial enzyme histidine kinase water-soluble, which could make it possible to rapidly screen potential antibiotics that might interfere with its ...

Omega-3 Therapy Prevents Birth-Related Brain Injury in Newborn Rodents

June 6, 2024 — A novel omega-3 injectable emulsion reduces brain damage in newborn rodents experiencing lack of oxygen at delivery, a major cause of disability in human infants and ...

A Dark Side to Dark Chocolate? New Study Finds Very Minimal Risk for Kids from Metals in Chocolates

June 3, 2024 — The study sampled 155 dark and milk chocolates from various global brands sold in the United States and tested for the presence of 16 heavy metals ranging from the toxic (lead and cadmium) to the ...

Healthy Adults Under Age of 75 Urged to Take Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamin D

June 3, 2024 — Healthy adults under the age of 75 are unlikely to benefit from taking more than the daily intake of vitamin D recommended by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and do not require testing for vitamin D ...

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Novel Lipopeptide Proves Lethal Against Staphylococcus Areus

June 6, 2024 — Researchers provide the first insight into the mode of action of the lipopeptide serrawettin W2-FL10, derived from Serratia marcescens. This lipopeptide targets the cell membrane of S. aureus, ...

The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy: Are Eggs and Sperm Partly Responsible?

June 12, 2024 — Researchers have found that germ cells, which develop into eggs and sperm, drive sex-dependent differences in lifespan in vertebrates. Female and male germ cells increase and reduce lifespan, ...

Chicken Feathers to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs and Repair Enzymes

May 29, 2024 — A new method of drug delivery using proline, an amino acid found in chicken feathers and skin tissue, could be used to limit the side effects of chemotherapy and repair important enzymes, new ...

Can Diet Help With Advanced Breast Cancer? All Indications Are Positive

May 22, 2024 — Results of a small study showed that a whole-food, plant-based diet followed by women with stage 4 breast cancer improved several measures of health, including levels of cancer growth factors in ...

Dispelling Severe 'Morning Sickness' Myths: It's Not Normal or Harmless, but Prevention and Treatment Might Be on the Way

May 22, 2024 — Late last year, geneticists made the discovery that morning sickness's most serious presentation, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), is caused by the ...

Food for Thought: Study Links Key Nutrients With Slower Brain Aging

May 21, 2024 — A new study suggests better nutrition might help prevent cognitive decline. Working with a group of 100 cognitively healthy participants aged 65 to 75, a research team combined neuroscience with ...

Dietary Changes May Treat Pulmonary Hypertension

May 2, 2024 — Blood vessels in the lungs aren't like the others in the body. This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs' blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading to ...

New Study Challenges One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Vitamin D Supplementation Guidelines

May 2, 2024 — A new study sheds light on the complexities of achieving optimal vitamin D status across diverse populations. Despite substantial research on the ...

Nutrient Research Reveals Pathway for Treating Brain Disorders

May 1, 2024 — The team discovered that an essential nutrient called choline is transported into the brain, across the blood-brain barrier, by a protein transporter called FLVCR2. This is discovery will inform ...

An Omega-6 Fatty Acid May Reduce the Risk for Bipolar Disorder

Apr. 30, 2024 — A genetic propensity to higher circulating levels of lipids containing arachidonic acid, an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in eggs, poultry, and seafood, has been found to be linked with a ...

Light Enables the Generation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids

May 30, 2024 — Researchers are building out the repertoire of chemical reactions, using light. They report a method using photobiocatalysis to produce non-canonical (not naturally occurring) amino acids that are ...

Vitamin D Alters Mouse Gut Bacteria to Give Better Cancer Immunity

Apr. 25, 2024 — Researchers have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to ...

Guidance on Energy and Macronutrients Across the Lifespan

Apr. 17, 2024 — In the long history of recommendations for nutritional intake, current research is trending toward the concept of 'food as medicine' -- a philosophy in which food and nutrition are ...

Choosing Sugary Drinks Over Fruit Juice for Toddlers Linked to Risk of Adult Obesity

Apr. 12, 2024 — Consuming sugar-sweetened drinks in the first few years of childhood can be linked to poor diet patterns that increase the risk of obesity in later life, according to a new ...

Obese and Overweight Children at Risk of Iron Deficiency

Apr. 10, 2024 — Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional ...

Bringing Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens to Their Knees

Apr. 8, 2024 — Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections that cannot be treated by any known antibiotics pose a serious global threat. A research team has now introduced a method for the development of novel ...

Blended Antioxidant Supplement Improves Cognition and Memory in Aged Mice

Apr. 2, 2024 — Cell damage from oxidative stress is a major underlying cause of age-related cognitive and muscle strength decline. Antioxidants can reduce oxidative stress and prevent age-related health decline. A ...

Eggs May Not Be Bad for Your Heart After All

Mar. 28, 2024 — Whether you like your eggs sunny-side up, hard boiled or scrambled, many hesitate to eat them amid concerns that eggs may raise cholesterol levels and be bad for heart health. However, results from a ...

Natural Molecule Found in Coffee and Human Body Increases NAD+ Levels, Improves Muscle Function During Aging

Mar. 21, 2024 — A research consortium made a recent discovery that the natural molecule trigonelline present in coffee, fenugreek, and also in the human body, can help to improve muscle health and ...

Fish Fed to Farmed Salmon Should Be Part of Our Diet, Too, Study Suggests

Mar. 20, 2024 — Scientists found that farmed salmon production leads to an overall loss of essential dietary nutrients. They say that eating more wild 'feed' species directly could benefit our health while ...

Fatty Food Before Surgery May Impair Memory in Old, Young Adults

Mar. 15, 2024 — Eating fatty food in the days leading up to surgery may prompt a heightened inflammatory response in the brain that interferes for weeks with memory-related cognitive function in older adults -- and, ...

'Molecular Rosetta Stone' Reveals How Our Microbiome Talks to Us

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the ...

Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life

Mar. 8, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the ...

Vitamin A May Play a Central Role in Stem Cell Biology and Wound Repair

Mar. 7, 2024 — Retinoic acid, the active state of Vitamin A, appears to regulate how stem cells enter and exit a transient state central to their role in wound ...

For a Healthy Fruit Snack, What Would You Choose?

Mar. 5, 2024 — Next time you're packing lunch for your kid or reaching for a healthy afternoon bite, consider this: only three types of packaged fruit snacks -- dried fruit, fruit puree and canned fruit with ...

Study Results Show 25% of Pregnant People Are Not Getting Enough Omega-3 Fatty Acids from Their Diet or Dietary Supplements

Mar. 1, 2024 — Results from a new US nationwide cohort study show that, despite strong recommendations in favor of consuming omega-3 fatty acids for optimal pregnancy outcomes and offspring health, 25% of ...

New Role for Bacterial Enzyme in Gut Metabolism Revealed

Feb. 29, 2024 — Bile acids long have been known to play a role in human metabolism. Synthesized from cholesterol in the liver, bile acids are involved in digestive processes, particularly in absorbing fat. They also ...

Feb. 22, 2024 — Researchers have discovered profound similarities and surprising differences between humans and insects in the production of the critical light-absorbing molecule of the retina, 11-cis-retinal, also ...

Bridging Diet, Microbes, and Metabolism: Implications for Metabolic Disorders

Feb. 20, 2024 — Mounting evidence suggests that the secret to understanding human health and combating metabolic diseases lies hidden within the microscopic world of our gut bacteria. Recent research reveals that a ...

Eating Too Much Protein Is Bad for Your Arteries, and This Amino Acid Is to Blame

Feb. 19, 2024 — Consuming over 22% of dietary calories from protein can lead to increased activation of immune cells that play a role in atherosclerotic plaque formation and drive the disease risk, new study ...