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Two micrograms is an almost unimaginably small amount. Its weight is less than a small piece of a grain of table salt. However, adults only need this amount of vitamin B12 each day, depending on the guidelines used, to support red blood cells, nerves, and DNA production. 2026 marks 100 years since George Minott and William Murphy reported that a liver-rich diet could treat pernicious anemia, a deadly disease at the time. Their research transformed medicine, eventually leading scientists to identify vitamin B12 as a substance in the liver that treats disease. However, the path to breakthrough began with an…
“Peacemaker” immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune tolerance, a paper published in December 2016 said. frontiers of science. Inflammation is increasingly being cited as a cause of a wide range of diseases, from cancer, diabetes and chronic infections to cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and reproductive diseases. Immune cells called regulatory T cells (Tregs) were originally defined as “suppressor” cells that prevent other immune cells from attacking the body, but are eventually being studied as “living drugs” that can be adapted to target many diseases that have an inflammatory component. Such approaches aimed…
The Supreme Court’s decision to protect Roundup herbicide makers from cancer lawsuits is the latest in a series of rulings that the Coalition to Bring America Back to Health could hurt Republicans at the polls in November. In a 7-2 decision Thursday, the nation’s highest court, encouraged by the Trump administration, reached an agreement with Bayer that federal law would prevent Roundup users from suing in state courts for failing to warn customers that the product’s active ingredient, glyphosate, could lead to cancer. The Supreme Court’s decision closes the door on thousands of failure-to-warn lawsuits in state courts across the…
Upside, a scalable housing stability platform, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to continue addressing the U.S. housing crisis from a healthcare perspective. Aquiline led the round, with participation from Flare Capital Partners and support from existing investors 645 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Triple Impact Capital, and Techstars. Housing instability is “one of the most persistent drivers of avoidable health care costs,” Dante La Ruffa, partner and head of venture and growth strategy at Aquiline, said in a statement. “Upside has the model, team, and infrastructure to address that, and we’re excited to partner with them in…
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the makers of the weedkiller Roundup and is expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging they failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The case came before the judge after a wave of litigation, including a multibillion-dollar judgment against global pesticide manufacturer Bayer. Bayer is a Germany-based company that acquired Roundup in 2018 when it acquired original producer Monsanto. The decision is a victory for President Donald Trump’s administration, but could be politically difficult as allies in the Make America Healthy Again movement want to curb pesticide use. In…
WASHINGTON — Political appointees appear poised to take more control over the information coming out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a proposal to add a separate scientific division on top of the agency. The new office, called the Executive Advisory Science and Operations Unit, will review scientific publications such as weekly morbidity and mortality reports for peer-reviewed journals and director general briefings on preparedness activities. He will report directly to Matthew Buzzelli, the agency’s chief of staff. STAT Plus: What stripping civil service protections from thousands of federal employees means for HHS Efforts have been underway…
How diet, early chemical exposure, genetic risk, and biological sex combine to shape lifelong memory function remains a great scientific mystery. A new study published in Neurotaxology reveals that consuming a high-fat diet and surviving early exposure to common pesticides alters memory in vastly different ways depending on the animal’s genetic makeup and gender. The results suggest that nutritional advice to protect the brain should be highly individualized rather than provided as a universal rule. The brain constantly adapts to external forces throughout life. During early childhood, the brain rapidly forms synaptic connections, making it highly sensitive to industrial chemicals…
The human brain begins as a single cell. Over time, that single cell gives rise to a highly complex organ containing approximately 170 billion cells. One of the biggest questions in developmental neuroscience is how all these cells get to the right places to form a functioning brain. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory now think the answer may be surprisingly simple. Their new research provides insight into how the brain is organized during development and could ultimately impact research in fields ranging from biology to artificial intelligence. How brain cells determine their identity Stan Kerstiens, a postdoctoral fellow in…
The rare and aggressive form of liver cancer has long been resistant to immunotherapy, which helps the body’s own immune system attack cancer cells. Now, researchers have identified a potential way to overcome that resistance using an FDA-approved drug already available for another medical condition. The findings suggest a potential new treatment strategy for fibrolamellar carcinoma, a rare liver cancer that primarily affects children and young adults. Fibrolamellar carcinoma accounts for approximately 2% of all liver cancer cases. There is currently no cure, the disease is often discovered only after it has spread to other parts of the body, and…
Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI).The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the former Monsanto Co. in a high-profile case that limits people’s right to sue pesticide companies for alleged illnesses and injuries. This decision 7-2 split, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh present the majority opinion, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Write a dissenting opinion. The case is Monsanto v Darnellspecifically addressed the question of whether the federal law that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory authority over pesticides preempts states’ claims that companies have failed to warn users of certain product risks, even…