Published: Dec 16, 2020 By Joseph Constance
A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. However, if the immune system malfunctions, it can attack healthy cells, tissues and organs. Autoimmune disease impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality. It may be life-threatening.
Researchers are aware of more than
80 diseases that occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own organs, tissues and cells. The more common autoimmune diseases include type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and inflammatory bowel disease.
Autoimmune diseases affect more than
24 million people in the U.S. On top of this, another 8 million carry auto-antibodies, blood molecules that indicate a person’s chance of developing an autoimmune disease. The cause of many of the diseases is unknown.
Bioengineered probiotic could prevent Listeria infections Bioengineered lactobacillus (red) interacts with surface heat shock protein 60 (white, yellow arrows), blocking Listeria monocytogenes (green, white arrows) from crossing into the bloodstream. (Photo provided by Rishi Drolia and Arun Bhunia.)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. For pregnant women, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, listeriosis is a serious foodborne illness often linked to deli meats, fresh produce and dairy products. Even with antibiotic treatment, listeriosis is fatal for about 20 percent of patients, resulting in thousands of deaths annually.
Purdue University’s Arun Bhunia, a professor of food science, and postdoctoral researcher Rishi Drolia have developed a probiotic that could prevent infections in at-risk populations. A bioengineered version of Lactobacillus, a bacterium common in the human gut, can block the pathway the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria use to cross intestinal wall cell
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NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity was honored to host Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Health Disparities Symposium, which was centered around the theme “Turning Research into Action.”
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With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary T. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Dr. Bassett is currently the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hea
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WASHINGTON Drinks with sucrose compared to glucose may cause young adults to produce lower levels of appetite-regulating hormones, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society s
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Too much sugar consumption is a contributing factor for obesity. Sucrose, or table sugar, is composed of equal parts glucose and fructose and is often added to processed foods like soda, candy, cereal and canned foods. Glucose can be found in foods like honey and dried fruits. Our study found that when young adults consumed drinks containing sucrose, they produced lower levels of appetite-regulating hormones than when they consumed drinks containing glucose (the main type of sugar that circulates in the bloodstream), said study author Kathleen Page, M.D., of the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif. This study is the first to show how individual characteristics, including body weight, sex and insulin sensitivity,