Tag Archive for 'Cholesterol'

Dickinsonia, which lived more than 550 million years ago, were flat, soft-bodied creatures that moved along the sea bed to eat microbes and algae. Image credit: University of California, Riverside.

Ancient Cholesterol Confirms Dickinsonia as One of Earth’s First Animals

Sep 21, 2018 by News Staff

The first complex organisms emerged during the Ediacaran period (635-541 million years ago). Ediacaran fossils are as ‘strange as life on another planet’...

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized clinically by progressive memory loss, cognitive decline, and aberrant behavior. In Alzheimer’s, changes in tau protein lead to the disintegration of microtubules in brain cells. Image credit: Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center / National Institute on Aging.

Brain Cholesterol May Play Important Role in Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease

May 9, 2018 by News Staff

A research team led by a University of Cambridge scientist has found that in the brain, cholesterol acts as a catalyst which triggers the formation of...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Image credit: Janice Haney Carr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers Find New Way to Inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Apr 7, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from the United States and Australia claim they have found a new way to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that is...

This image shows that high levels of active PCSK9 gene (green color) prevent LDL cholesterol (red color) from binding to the surface of liver cells. Image credit: Rockefeller University.

Scientists Develop LDL Cholesterol-Lowering Vaccine

Nov 16, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

A new virus-like particle-based vaccine leads to dramatic reductions in ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol in mice and macaques, says a team of scientists led by...

Researchers from Australia and Germany have identified seventy individual steroids, including stenols, steradienols, stanols, stanones, sterenes, steradienes, diasterenes, diasteranes, mono- and triaromatic steroids, in this 380-million-year-old fossil. Image credit: Ines Melendez, Curtin University's WA Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre.

Cholesterol, Other Steroids Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Crab-Like Fossil

Oct 9, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Ines Melendez from Curtin University have identified 70 intact steroidal compounds in a 380-million-year-old crustacean fossil from the...

Nordic diet, rich in berries, fruit and vegetables, is associated with lower levels of 'bad' cholesterol and inflammation (Nino Barbieri / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Nordic Diet Lowers Bad Cholesterol, Finds Scandinavian Study

Jun 3, 2013 by News Staff

A healthy Nordic diet can lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels and may reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a new Scandinavian study published...

According to the new research, breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, also known as the ‘good cholesterol.’ The inset shows structure of high-density lipoprotein (University of California Davis' Foods For Health Institute)

Car Emissions Turn HDL Cholesterol from ‘Good’ to ‘Bad,’ Mice Study Shows

May 23, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has found that breathing car emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, sometimes called the ‘good...

Structure of low density lipoprotein (Oregon State University)

Scientists Identify Four Genes that Influence ‘Bad’ Cholesterol

May 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute reporting online in the Journal of Lipid Research has identified 4 genes in baboons...

Sources of cholesterol (University of California, San Francisco)

Study Finds New Way to Clear Cholesterol from Blood

Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

A research reported in the online journal eLife identifies a new therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol. Sources of cholesterol (University of California,...

Scientists Identify Protein that Blocks HIV, Ebola, Nipah, Other Pathogenic Viruses

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists led by Prof Genhong Cheng of the University of California Los Angeles have identified a natural protein with broad virus-fighting properties...