It’s been a busy week in health news — from saying goodbye to COVID public health and mpox global health emergencies to ushering in a new era of over-the-counter birth control pills.
But that’s not all that happened in the wellness space. Here’s what else you might have missed from Yahoo News partners., researchers identified a protein carried by bats that could explain their long lives and imperviousness to certain viruses — with possible “therapeutic potential” for humans.the Telegraph reported
A team of scientists in Singapore and China said this is thanks to a modified version of a protein called “bat ASC2,” which suppresses the inflammatory response in bats. When researchers genetically modified mice to carry the protein, the mice demonstrated the same inflammatory defenses as bats. Human cells tested in a lab setting became more resilient too.
“It may not be the only factor, as biology is never as simple as one molecule or one pathway. But the overall dampening of inflammation most likely plays a role in health aging in bats,” Wang said.All potential blood donors — regardless of sex, gender or sexual orientation — will now be screened with a new questionnaire evaluating their risks for HIV.
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