Living Near Green Areas Reduces Risk Of Stroke

The one-year-old child thought to be the world’s first patient to undergo a combination heart transplant and allogeneic processed thymus tissue implantation appears to be responding well to the procedures. The processed thymus tissue implantation is designed to help the patient’s body treat the implanted heart as its own. 

Using processed thymus tissue from the heart donor could lower the risk of organ rejection.

The time of day that people with diabetes eat certain foods may be just as important to their well-being as portion size and calories, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

An unhealthy diet leads to the fatal activation of immune cells. A team of researchers from LMU, in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School in Boston, has uncovered new molecular influences.

A step toward discovering the fountain of youth could involve protecting against the inevitable accumulation of “senescent” cells associated with aging and age-related diseases. Now, researchers from Japan have identified the Mondo A protein as key to protecting against the accumulation of senescent cells.