当前，塑料品的消费量逐年增加，塑料污染已然成为全球面临的最紧迫的环境威胁之一。塑料制品释放出的塑料碎片，又会在物理、化学和生物的进一步降解后分解成为“更微小但更严重”的威胁，即微塑料。微塑料（Microplastic，MP），是指直径在1μm至5mm ...

Reactive oxygen production and the ensuing cellular response can be strongly influenced by lifestyle factors such as the intensity and frequency of exercise. Traditionally, ROS are viewed as imposing ...

In the lab, PHEC-66 seems to increase the likelihood of apoptosis occurring in three melanoma cell lines, by targeting ...

Humanin, a small mitochondrial-derived peptide, has garnered considerable attention within the scientific community due to ...

A common response of animal cells to infection is apoptosis – a suicide program that cells initiate when they are damaged or infected by bacteria or viruses. “Interestingly, these bacteria have come ...

The Krebs cycle byproduct itaconate regulates immune cell function, however its role within tumor cells remains unclear. Here ...

"Furthermore, PHEC-66 influences metabolic pathways by inducing the accumulation of ROS within these cells ... actions ...

When our review of the role of progesterone (PROG) in brain injury was published in Future Neurology in 2006, there was no clinically available treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). [1] This ...

The BBC's analysis editor, Ros Atkins, takes a look at how the events played out and the man suspected of being behind them.

Ros Worthington OAM has spent her life serving others through her charity work and philanthropy. Now she is taking advantage of WA's Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) legislation, organising her own ...