There is a quiet epidemic of loneliness happening in the world. We have replaced effort with ease and lost the health benefits of real human connection. We text instead of talking and share our lives on social media. Emoji hearts, hugs, and thumbs up or down are empty calories that…
In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), blood vessel cells in the lungs release exosomes, or cellular shipping containers, filled with a signaling molecule called microRNA-21 (miR-21) that are taken up by heart cells to help limit heart damage, a new study shows. “These findings identify exosomal miR-21 as a key…
Treatment with molecular shipping containers called extracellular vesicles, loaded with a signaling molecule called cAMP, reduced the severity of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in a rat model of the disease, a new study reports. The data indicated that these packages of signaling molecules, which they dubbed cAMP-EVs, reduced the abnormal…
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Sometimes a news headline rattles you so deeply that you’re still thinking about it nearly two months later. I probably can’t shake this particular headline because I was at the airport when I read the article. Let’s rewind to the week before last Christmas, when I was preparing to fly…
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