Road noise can cause high blood pressure

“To date, this is the first large-scale prospective study that directly addresses the effect of road traffic noise on the incidence of newly-diagnosed hypertension,” said Jiandong Zhang, MD, fellow in cardiology in the Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina. he said. Chappell Hill, and the author of the accompanying editorial comment. “The […]

Scientists develop new technique to study mitochondria

“We now have a powerful new toolkit for detecting and measuring structural, and thus functional, differences in mitochondria – for example, diseased versus healthy states,” says senior author Daniel Grotjahn, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Structural Sciences. In.” and Computational Biology at Scripps Research. The study’s co-first authors were Grotzahn lab members […]