Is it time to revitalize your diet? Keeping mealtimes fresh, fun, and healthy can feel like a juggling act, especially when you’re cooking at home day after day. Maybe your go-to grilled chicken and steamed veggies are starting to lose their luster, or perhaps you find yourself circling the same few dishes each week. The […]
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Glioblastoma and Autism: In accordance with the blueprint contained in our DNA, human cells produce proteins that perform specific functions. An essential step in this process is the reading of the DNA and the transcription of the information into mRNA. A multi-centre study with significant participation from MedUni Vienna has now shown for the first […]
Protein from the liver may cause Alzheimer’s disease in the brain: The study, published in the prestigious PLOS Biology journal and tested on mouse models, identified that a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease was the leakage from blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting toxic proteins. Lead investigator Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Director Professor […]
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Brainfood: Researchers find brain area responsible for protein cravings: New research from the Universities of Aberdeen and Leicester has identified an area of the brain that drives cravings for protein-rich food It is widely posited that a low protein diet is associated with obesity and this new finding has implications for the development of targeted treatments for obesity. The team found that when rats were given a low protein diet, a specific area of the […]
Inflammatory protein linked to severe COVID-19: Patients with severe COVID-19 show increased levels of a key protein in their blood, which researchers believe may help identify those most at risk. In an analysis of more than 500 COVID-19 patients across the UK, researchers identified several inflammatory markers in blood which increased within the early stages […]
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A world first discovery of how a protein works in the liver could lead to a more effective type 2 diabetes drug. The researchers say such treatments will be more important than ever given that diabetes appears to be associated with poor prognosis in those with the COVID-19 infection. The University of Melbourne-led study found […]
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Summer time is a perfect season to start a healthy diet, but trying to lose weight can be hard work as well as stressful and frustrating. So instead of following strict fad diets such as the cabbage soup diet, the grapefruit diet or liquid diet, how about simply eating less carbohydrates combined with foods rich […]