It would be a lie — or at least an incomplete truth — to deny that some part of me yearned for natural childbirth as a threshold of redemption. I had never fully treated my body as an ally. I had starved myself to whittle it down and spent years drinking myself to blackout and…
Before and after that process, the researchers drew blood, biopsied tissues, centrifuged fluids and microscopically searched for vesicles and other molecular changes in the tissues. They noted plenty. Before their improvised weight training, the rodents’ leg muscles had teemed with a particular snippet of genetic material, known as miR-1, that modulates muscle growth. In normal,…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As I photographed people in Covid-19 intensive care units early this year, I was protected by four sets of plastic: glasses, goggles, face shield and viewfinder. But there is no protection for the pain one…
During menopause, which marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles, her ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone, bringing an end to her natural childbearing years. But those hormones also regulate how the brain functions, and the brain governs their release — meaning that menopause is a neurological process as well. “Many of…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) announced Martha Somerman, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., as the 2021 recipient of the AADR Jack Hein Public Service Award. Somerman was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 50th Annual Meeting of the AADR, held in conjunction with the 99th General…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) announced Nisha D’Silva, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as the 2021 recipient of the AADR Irwin D. Mandel Distinguished Mentoring Award. D’Silva was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 50th Annual Meeting of the AADR, held in conjunction with the 99th General…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) announced Ning Yu, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Mass., as the 2021 recipient of the AADR Anne D. Haffajee Fellowship. Yu was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 50th Annual Meeting of the AADR, held in conjunction with the 99th General Session &…
IMAGE: The dynamics of EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) IgM titers, EBV early antigen-diffuse (EA-D) IgG titers, and serum EBV DNA over time after EBV infection or reactivation. view more Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Ting Zou, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Toshio Nakao Fellowship. Zou was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the IADR, held in conjunction with the 50th…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Lauren Katz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Osteology Foundation New Investigator Award in Oral Tissue Regeneration. Katz was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the…