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New nonprofit ALSAE unites science, arts and entertainment to change how society sees longevity and the diseases of aging. Longevity has long been a matter of data and discovery – less often of drama and direction. A new nonprofit, the Alliance for Longevity Science, Arts & Entertainment (ALSAE), believes that must change. The foundation, pronounced “all say,” has launched with the aim of bridging the precision of longevity science with the cultural reach of the creative industries – a fusion it hopes will move public understanding of aging research from the lab bench to the mainstream. Announced last month, ALSAE…
“One of the biggest threats to pangolins globally is habitat loss, but here in Singapore, road accidents are a larger immediate threat. We live in an urban city but we have a lot of wildlife all around us as well, so some encounters are inevitable.I work as a veterinarian at Mandai Wildlife Group, which manages the Singapore Zoo. In this image, taken in May, I’m examining Berani, a big male Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), at our facilities in the zoo. Berani — which means brave in Malay — was a wild pangolin who first came to us after a probable…
A new study reveals how a child’s early gut microbiome may influence their risk of developing depression, anxiety, or other internalizing symptoms during childhood. According to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, US, the effect relates to the way bacteria affect communication across emotion-related brain networks. The observational study found that young children with a higher amount of gut bacteria in the Clostridiales order and Lachnospiraceae family were more at risk of experiencing internalizing symptoms — an umbrella term that covers symptoms of depression and anxiety — in middle childhood.However, this appears to be an indirect…
Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/ Getty Images Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed a detailed single-cell atlas of the developing human brain, offering a new reference point for evaluating lab-grown neurons used in Parkinson’s disease (PD) research and other brain disorders. The study, titled “BrainSTEM: A single-cell multi-resolution fetal brain atlas reveals transcriptomic fidelity of human midbrain cultures,” and published in Science Advances, introduces a two-tier mapping framework called BrainSTEM (Brain Single-cell Two tiEr Mapping), which helps assess how closely in vitro models resemble actual midbrain development. The team analyzed nearly 680,000 cells from fetal brain tissue spanning postconception…
Gene editing techniques, including CRISPR, prime editing, and nucleases, allow scientists to tackle genetic diseases, cancer, and more. Researchers increasingly apply these techniques to study and develop strategies for gene editing in areas such as target discovery, disease modeling, and precision medicine.Download this ebook from The Scientist’s Creative Services Team to learn how scientists use cutting-edge gene editing technologies to advance personalized medicine therapeutic approaches for a wide range of disorders.
Ending your day with a healthy and filling meal is easy with these high-protein dinner recipes. With at least 30 grams of protein per serving, these dinners will help support your muscle and bone health and other essential functions of the body—all while you sleep. Try our High-Protein Balsamic Chicken Orzo or our Ground Turkey Fajita Bowls tonight for a tasty and nutritious dinner that can help you meet your daily protein goals. Love these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save them all with one click. It’s so easy—and free! High-Protein Balsamic Chicken Orzo Photographer: Morgan Hunt Ward, Prop Stylist: Phoebe…
Microwaving preserves more nutrients than longer, high-heat cooking methods.Using less water and shorter cooking times helps retain vitamins and minerals.Microwaving offers quick, efficient cooking without major nutrient loss. Cooking is an art form that has evolved over centuries, incorporating a diverse range of techniques and methods to prepare food. From the traditional practices of baking, grilling and boiling to the more modern techniques like sous-vide and molecular gastronomy, each method uniquely enhances the flavor, texture and nutritional value of ingredients. Amid this culinary diversity, microwaving stands out for its convenience and popularity. It offers a quick, efficient and energy-saving option…
Unregistered sonographers working in baby scan clinics on the UK’s high streets are sometimes giving poor or potentially dangerous advice to pregnant women, the Society of Radiographers has warned.1The professional body and trade union said that its members had seen examples of missed health problems, misdiagnosed conditions, and healthy fetuses misdiagnosed as dead or malformed. It is calling for a change in the law so that only people who have completed approved qualifications in sonography and are registered with the appropriate regulatory body can be allowed to call themselves a sonographer.Individual sonographers can decide to join the register of clinical…
Credit: Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images / Moment For decades, cardiologists have known that the human heart stops producing new muscle cells shortly after birth, leaving no way to replace those lost to heart attack or failure. However, a new study published in npj Regenerative Medicine, led by Hina Chaudhry, MD, director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, shows that the gene for Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), silenced early in life, can be switched back on to make adult heart cells divide again—without losing their structure or function. In earlier animal work, Chaudhry’s team…
Researchers leverage cutting-edge proteomics platform to unravel the complexities of neurodegenerative disease. Proteomics company Nautilus Biotechnology and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging today revealed the organizations have been working together to bring Nautilus’ single-molecule proteomics platform into an aging research environment for the first time. The companies revealed that the system, deployed for more than six months at the Buck’s labs in Novato, California, has produced reproducible data from neurodegenerative disease samples, providing new insight into disease-related protein modifications. Proteomics, the study of proteins’ interactions, structures, and functions, offers the potential to reveal insights into human biology that…