Enlisting the immune system: mRNA cancer treatment new target for Biden administration | Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors behind condition | Unravelling the Link Between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity

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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Enlisting the immune system: mRNA cancer treatment new target for Biden administration    In its bid to fight cancer, the Biden administration this week announced plans to enlist the mRNA technology made famous by COVID-19 vaccines. The idea is to create a platform of mRNA technologies that could turn the immune system against cancer and other diseases. In this case, messenger RNA-based technology would be used to turn off and on multiple genes within immune cells involved in cancer, auto-immune diseases, organ transplant rejection and chronic conditions like long COVID. By contrast, existing vaccines use mRNAs to produce specific proteins to be targeted by the immune system ‒ the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19, or, with cancer vaccines under development, ones on the surface of tumors. Continued here Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors behind condition    Predictive tool ‘significantly outperforms’ others available and could help avert about 40% of cases Scientists have identified 11 risk factors for dementia and used them to develop a tool that can predict whether someone will develop the condition in the next 14 years. The number of people living with dementia globally is forecast to nearly triple to 153 million by 2050, and experts have said that it presents a rapidly growing threat to future health and social care systems. But targeting key risk factors, several of which involve lifestyle, could avert about 40% of cases. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Unravelling the Link Between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity    The world is getting bigger, quite literally. By 2035, just over half of humankind will be overweight or obese, with associated costs on the global economy. As complex and multifaceted a disease as obesity is, its link with socioeconomic status is clear: Obesity is more common among people of lower socioeconomic standing. In the United Kingdom, for example, obesity is nearly twice as common in the country’s most deprived regions than its least deprived (36 percent vs. 20 percent). Research has identified five factors as possible links between modern-day obesity and socioeconomic status: stress, temporal focus or whether one is focused on the past or the future, well-being expectations, time spent outdoors and food scarcity. However, studies typically examine only one or two factors at a time and not the relative importance of all five. In addition, past research has typically been cross-sectional, meaning it examined data in a single point in time, which limits the ability to infer causality. Continued here

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