Cardiovascular disease remains the number one reason for mortality and morbidity in the US, particularly given the ever-increasing prevalence of metabolic syndromes like diabetes and…
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Sulfonylureas are antidiabetic drugs that have been used for more than 50 years in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. While sulfonylureas can effectively reduce…
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine recently reported a new material to deliver RNA therapeutics to fat cells for gene therapy. Gene therapy has…
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When it comes to waterborne pathogens and host-specific pathogens like human enteric viruses, it is easy to assume that they evolved through human interactions. Yet…
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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of adult blindness and a deleterious complication of diabetes mellitus. After a decade of diabetes, ~80-90% of patients…
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Inflammatory diseases of the gut are on the rise. In North America and Europe, more than 0.3% of the population suffers from inflammatory bowel diseases…
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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms, mood changes, and cognitive impairments. Although its mechanism has not been fully clarified, several types of…
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By 2050, 20% of the world’s population will be 60 years old or more. Under this scenario, diseases related to aging will represent an overwhelming…
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The eye is one of the most important and complex organs in our body. A variety of causes, including injuries or diseases such as diabetes,…
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Some pathogens give our immune system quite a hard time, such as pathogens like Influenza, where each season evolves new flu variants that reinfect, even…
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Pompe disease is a rare and potentially fatal metabolic myopathy (prevalence 1 in 20,000). In Pompe disease, the deficiency of lysosomal acid α-glucosidase (GAA) leads…
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