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    Scientists find that a Special Omega-3 Lipid might Prevent Fatty Liver disease

    July 20, 2023, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Detection of the lysolipid transporter Mfsd2a in hepatocytes, stained green, in proximity to a bile duct, stained magenta. (Credit:  Chin Cheen Fei)

    Long-running research by Duke-NUS Medical School into the omega-3 transporter protein Mfsd2a has shown that it plays a key role in a specific mechanism that prevents the liver from storing too much fat from food. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, this latest study by Duke-NUS and collaborators from Singapore General Hospital (SGH) signals the possibility that a dietary supplement could be developed to help prevent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

    Eating too much fatty food increases the risk of many health problems, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and NAFLD...

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    Researchers Achieve Historic Milestone in Energy Capacity of Supercapacitors

    July 20, 2023, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    A landmark study led by Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., professor emeritus at The University of Texas at El Paso, and Marta Plonska-Brzezinska, Ph.D., of the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland (not pictured), was recently featured in the journal Scientific Reports, which is published by leading research publisher Nature Portfolios. It describes how they have achieved the highest level of energy storage — also known as capacitance — in a supercapacitor ever recorded.
    A landmark study led by Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., professor emeritus at The University of Texas at El Paso, and Marta Plonska-Brzezinska, Ph.D., of the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland (not pictured), was recently featured in the journal Scientific Reports, which is published by leading research publisher Nature Portfolios. It describes how they have achieved the highest level of energy storage — also known as capacitance — in a supercapacitor ever recorded.

    Scientific community inches closer to ultrafast-charging energy storage. In a new landmark chemistry study, researchers describe how they have achieved the highest level of energy storage — also known as capacitance — in a supercapacitor ever recorded.

    The study, led by Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D...

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    VERA Unveils Surroundings of Rapidly Growing Black Holes

    July 20, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Jets ejected from a rapidly growing supermassive black hole with surrounding outflows. The polarization plane of a radio wave emitted from the vicinity of a black hole rotates as it passes through the surrounding magnetized gas. (Credit: NAOJ) 

    An international team of astronomers used the state-of-the-art capability of VERA, a Japanese network of radio telescopes operated by NAOJ, to uncover valuable clues about how rapidly growing “young” supermassive black holes form, grow, and possibly evolve into more powerful quasars.

    It is now widely accepted that nearly every active galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its core, with masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the Sun...

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    Cell Protein Discovery points to Healthier Aging

    July 20, 2023, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    two people with grey hair are walking away from the camera along a sandy track with green vegetation either side
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    Researchers at The University of Queensland have found an anti-ageing function in a protein deep within human cells.

    Associate Professor Steven Zuryn and Dr Michael Dai at the Queensland Brain Institute have discovered that a protein called ATSF-1 controls a fine balance between the creation of new mitochondria and the repair of damaged mitochondria.

    Mitochondria, with their own DNA, produce energy within cells to power biological functions but the toxic by-products of this process contribute to the rate at which the cell ages.

    “In conditions of stress, when mitochondrial DNA has been damaged, the ATSF-1 protein prioritises repair which promotes cellular health and longevity,” Dr Zuryn said.

    As an analogy, Dr Zuryn likened the relationship to a race car needing...

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