Scientists have identified a new mechanism that may help fight inflammatory diseases.It has been discovered for the first time that the platelets which are the cells needed for blood clotting, help white blood cells called neutrophils in fighting inflammation.
The finding was done by Ralph Kettritz, Professor of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Charite [...]
Scientists have revealed that humans get the ability to hear as a result of a Rube Goldberg-style process, wherein sound vibrations entering the ear shake and jostle a successive chain of structures until they are converted into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain.Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other [...]
Scientists believe that they have found the reason behind the mysterious time delays in the body’s internal clock - circadian clock -that controls sleeping and waking patterns.Cornwell researchers have suggested that a new, unknown molecule, focus-binding mediator (FBM), may help explain the mathematical modelling of the body system better.
Molecular interactions that control the circadian clock [...]
A new study conducted on mice may help explain why all obese people are not diabetic. In the study conducted by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher,the ‘world’s fattest mice” can overeat without developing insulin resistance or diabetes thanks to a glut of a key hormone.
Consuming excess calories usually spurs insulin resistance and diabetes, but [...]
University of Florida researchers have found that dietary restrictions help rodents live longer by boosting cells’ ability to recycle damaged parts so they can maintain efficient energy production.Cell death, on a whole-body scale, is what aging is all about. During the aging process, free radicals, highly reactive by-products of our cells’ respiration cause damage to [...]