BiotechMashup

Resveratrol, a popular plant extract shown to prolong life in yeast and lower animals due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, appears also to suppress inflammation in humans, based on results from the first prospective human trial of the extract.

by Xiaoxia Zhu, Qiong Liu, Meimei Wang, Minrui Liang, Xue Yang, Xue Xu, Hejian Zou, Jianhua Qiu

by Xiaoxia Zhu, Qiong Liu, Meimei Wang, Minrui Liang, Xue Yang, Xue Xu, Hejian Zou, Jianhua Qiu

by Alberto Granzotto, Paolo Zatta

by Alberto Granzotto, Paolo Zatta

(University at Buffalo) Buffalo medical researchers led by a team from the University at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery, will embark on a landmark prospective randomized double-blinded study to test the safety and efficacy of interventional endovascular therapy -- dubbed "liberation treatment" -- on the symptoms and progression of multiple sclerosis.

(University at Buffalo) Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers and are the most lethal viruses known to humans.

(University at Buffalo) A low dose of insulin has been found to suppress the expression in the blood of four precursor proteins involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, according to new clinical research by University at Buffalo endocrinologists.

(Boston University Medical Center) A study was carried out to examine the extent to which quercetin and trans-resveratrol prevented inflammation or insulin resistance in primary cultures of human adipocytes treated with tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) -- an inflammatory cytokine elevated in the plasma and adipose tissue of obese, diabetic individuals.