LA Times The H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South American elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from UC Davis and UC Santa…
Despite advances in the field of organ transplantation, long-term organ rejection that can become apparent a decade or more after a heart or lung transplant remains a common problem for patients. This chronic organ failure has long been…
Specific genetic architecture in the gut microbial ecosystem can shape microbial composition in ways that are potentially relevant to the pathogenesis of celiac disease, according to a study published this month in Nature Genetics.
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A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell Medicine, and other institutions have uncovered a key biological explanation for why eczema so often starts in childhood. The study, in young mice,…
A US study has found that certain fats used in infant formula can lead to liver disease. Scientists fed newborn pigs formula containing specific medium-chain fats and found that they developed liver fat faster than piglets fed long-chain fats,…
Tiny RNA molecules carried by extracellular vesicles in the bloodstream can accurately predict kidney function decline and cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease (CKD), as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. By analyzing…
Cancer in the back of the mouth or throat (oropharyngeal cancer) is no longer a rare cancer in some groups of people with HIV, especially heterosexual men, a large North American study reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic…