Researchers have engineered proteins to emit light in response to a combination of weak magnetic fields and pulses of energy.
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Dietary methionine mitigates immune-mediated damage by enhancing renal clearance of cytokines
Nutritional strategy to prevent immune-mediated damage.
Excessive immune response with the inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production may lead to tissue damage.
With Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection in mic, the researchers found that dietary methionine enhances kidney filtration and promotes urinary excretion of inflammatory cytokines during infection and protects against anorexia, wasting, blood-brain barrier dysfunction, and lethality.
Mechanistically, methionine and its metabolite S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) activate renal mTORC1 signaling, promoting renal growth and enhanced glomerular filtration function.
By improving cytokine clearance, this pathway mitigates immune-mediated damage and reveals a nutritional strategy to promote cooperative defenses. sciencenewshighlights ScienceMission https://sciencemission.com/Dietary-methionine
Troha et al. found that dietary methionine enhances kidney filtration and promotes urinary excretion of inflammatory cytokines during infection. By improving cytokine clearance, this pathway mitigates immune-mediated damage and reveals a nutritional strategy to promote cooperative defenses.
Engineered nanobodies improve respiratory defenses in preclinical study
In a multi-institutional study published today in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that engineered bispecific nanobodies successfully strengthened mucosal defenses in the respiratory tract, improving protection against influenza infection and reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in vivo.
Wen Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Radiation Oncology, has been researching different nanotechnologies for their potential use in delivering cancer therapies. That research has led to work with Liming Zhou, M.D., a postdoctoral student, and the late Charles Chan, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Medicine.
Off-grid filtration technology can remove over 99% of nanoplastics smaller than 50 nm
Professor Jeong-Min Baik’s research group of the SKKU School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering has developed a reusable electrokinetic filtration platform capable of filtering more than 99% of ultrafine nanoplastic particles smaller than 50 nm even under commercial-level high-flow conditions.
Plastic pollution, which has surged in recent years through industrialization and the pandemic era, poses a direct threat to human health. In particular, nanoplastics smaller than 100 nm—thousands of times thinner than a human hair—can readily pass through biological membranes in the body and trigger serious diseases such as immune dysregulation and carcinogenicity.
However, conventional water purification systems have struggled to effectively remove nanoplastics of such small sizes, highlighting technological limitations; studies have even reported the presence of hundreds of thousands of particles in a single bottle of bottled water.
Ultra-thin wireless retinal implant offers hope for safely restoring vision signals
An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Sedat Nizamoğlu from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç University has developed a next-generation, safe, and wireless stimulation technology for retinal degenerative diseases that cause vision loss.
The study is published in Science Advances.
Regenerating lost lymph nodes with bioengineered tissues
The rising incidence of cancer worldwide has led to an increasing number of surgeries that involve the removal of lymph nodes. Although these procedures play a major role in cancer staging and preventing the spread of malignancies, they sometimes come with severe long-term consequences.
Since lymph nodes do not naturally regenerate once removed, their absence can lead to a condition known as secondary lymphedema. It manifests as chronic swelling, discomfort, and reduced mobility in affected limbs or regions, severely affecting a patient’s quality of life.
Scientists May Have Found a Blueprint to Revive Old Cells
Many of the body’s processes slow down or falter as we get older, including tissue regeneration. In a new study, researchers detail a promising method to get this vital repair work back up to speed.
The study, from a team at the University of California, San Francisco, identified four transcription factors – proteins that control the activity of other genes – that have a rejuvenating effect on cells.
When the researchers boosted production of one of these transcription factors in the liver cells of elderly mice, they noticed numerous benefits: fat and scarring were significantly reduced, and glucose tolerance improved – all signs of a more youthful organ.