According to findings by researchers at Duke Medicine, a potentially lethal fungal infection appears to gain virulence by being able to anticipate and disarm a hostile immune attack in the lungs. Defense mechanisms used by the fungus iCryptococcus neoformans/i enable it to lead to fatal meningitis, which is one of the opportunistic infections often associated with death in HIV/AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients, diabetics and other immunosuppressed ...
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Joslin scientists have identified the key mechanism that regulates the production of brown fat. Brown fat plays an important role in heat production and energy metabolism. The findings, which appear in the upcoming issue of iNature/i, may lead to new therapies that increase BAT formation to treat obesity. Two types of fat tissue are present in humans and other mammals: white adipose tissue (WAT) or white fat, which stores fat; and brown adipose tissue (BAT) ...
Stephen Hawking, a British astrophysicist is likely to be the world's most famous person living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is a progressive disease affecting motor neurons, nerve cells that control muscle function, and nearly always leads to death. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) in Vienna have now identified a completely new mechanism in the ...
