Gut immune system identified as a new and effective target in treating diabetes
From front to back: Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sue Tsai and graduate student Helen Luck contributed to the research identifying the immune system in the...
Drugging the microbiome may treat heart disease
This visual abstract depicts how drugging the gut microbiota with a nonlethal inhibitor that blocks production of the metabolite trimethylamine reduces the formation of...
New simulations could help in hunt for massive mergers of neutron stars, black holes
This image, from a computerized simulation, shows the formation of an inner disk of matter and a wide, hot disk of matter 5.5 milliseconds...
Synthetic biology yields new approach to gene therapy
Dr. Leonidas Bleris (left), assistant professor of bioengineering at UT Dallas, and Richard Taplin Moore MS’11 helped create a new delivery system that may...
Gene therapy via skin could treat many diseases, even obesity
When normal and gene-altered mice ate the high-fat diet -- along with varying levels of doxycycline to induce GLP1 release -- mice expressing GLP1...
New evidence for how green tea, apples could protect health
The Institute of Food Research has published a new study that adds more to the growing body of evidence that certain compounds found naturally...
Natural compound coupled with specific gut microbes may prevent severe flu
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice,...
Ghost particles: New limits on extremely rare decay
The results of tests conducted by UConn chemists show that nicotine electronic cigarettes are equivalent, if not slightly worse, than unfiltered (nf) tobacco cigarettes...
New results from T2K conclusively show muon neutrinos transform to electron neutrinos
Super Kamiokande is the worldʼs largest underground neutrino detector, and is located 1000 metres underground in Kamioka Mine, Hida, Gifu Precture, Japan. It is...
The short-baseline detectives and the mysterious case of the sterile neutrino
The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program will use three detectors: SBND, MicroBooNE (shown here) and ICARUS.
Credit: Reidar Hahn
In 1995, physicists working on the Liquid Scintillator...
Hide and seek: Sterile neutrinos remain elusive
Antineutrino detectors in Daya Bay Hall #3. The detectors rest in a pool being filled with ultrapure water.
Credit: University of California - Lawrence Berkeley...
