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Toni BakerIt’s been known for decades that a bacterial infection can raise your blood pressure short term, but now scientists are putting together the pieces of how our own dying cells can fuel chronically high, destructive pressure. Quite literally billions...
Immune receptor that’s typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor to bladder dysfunction
Bladder dysfunction is a reality for about half of patients with diabetes and now scientists have evidence that an immune system receptor that’s more typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor. In the face of diabetes, scientists have...
Danielle HarrisResearch to address the needs of autistic adults remains relatively unchartered territory, but Augusta University Occupational Therapist Teal Benevides hopes to shed light on this population’s critical needs in her latest project “Priority Setting...
Brennan MeagherIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses ways our scientists are investigating “misbehavior” among receptors...
Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety of functions from our sense of smell to memory. Now scientists are learning more about the constant export of these receptors from inside the cell where they are made, to the cell surface...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a potential new use for an established Parkinson’s Disease treatment which...
Mutations in a gene that should enable memories and a sense of direction instead can result in imprecise communication between neurons that contributes to symptoms of schizophrenia, scientists report. They found that dramatically reducing the amount...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a man-made molecule that shows tremendous promise in combating diabetic...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses “gene scissors” and their role in correcting a gene defect that...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a small international study of individuals living with young people affected by...
A more powerful version of an anti-inflammatory molecule already circulating in our blood may help protect our vision in the face of diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy resulting from high circulating levels of glucose is the leading cause of blindness...
Scientists are using “gene scissors” to cut off the code of a defective gene that results in progressively weaker muscles and death in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and replace it with a synthetic code they hope will one day restore healthy life to...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the relatively simple mathematical logic that guides how the billions of neurons...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the “motor cars” inside our cells that deliver proteins to the...
Our hearts use fat for fuel but as with the rest of our bodies, it’s all about balance. Both too few and too many of the small lipid droplets that our heart cells burn for energy can cause heart failure, said Dr. Weiqin Chen, molecular biologist in...
Much like motors power our cars, they also ensure that proteins get to the right place in our cells, and a wide variety of diseases – from cancer to heart problems – can result when they don’t. Now scientists have evidence of more flexibility and a...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the dynamics between a gene called BSCL2 and a protein called ATGL, and what...
Kelly JasperA new theory suggests human thought can be boiled down to an algorithm. Research by Dr. Joe Tsien, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, suggests that our brain power is based on “a relatively simple...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses how the hormone leptin may be prompting the fat packed around the organs of obese...
Researchers are beginning to find puzzling new links between obesity, memory loss and dementia, according to a new article in The Guardian that included research by Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan, neuroscientist in the Department of Neuroscience and...