The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white bulk of mobile morgues, refrigeration whirring — and his mind would end up back on his dad, in respiratory distress, dying of Covid or Alzheimer’s, he’d never know which. He’d …
July 7, 2022 — Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company with a mission to discover, develop and deliver curative therapies that address the underlying causes of heart disease, announced the publication of preclinical research in the July 6 issue of Science Translational Medicine. The article, titled “Phenotypic screening with deep learning identifies HDAC6 inhibitors as cardioprotective in a BAG3 mouse …
Visit the News Hub Immune system may be key to new therapies for cardiac diseases A new grant for researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will fund research investigating the role of the immune system in heart failure. Finding ways to harness beneficial immune cells could lead to new therapies that encourage the heart to heal …
I became a sick woman 10 years ago. In October 2010, the cause of the strange pain that had haunted me for years was finally uncovered and I was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic autoimmune disease, the most common form of lupus. Ninety percent of the estimated 3.5 million people who have it are women. Like many …
According to a leading international food safety expert, the reputation of Ireland’s valuable agri-food sector could be jeopardized because the rules on the sale of veterinary medicines are not enforced. Prof. Chris Elliott, director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queens University in Belfast, issued the warning after nearly a dozen veterinary practices in the north stated that …
