MS in Medical Physiology at Loyola Health Sciences Campus

10/12/2024

Let's wake that brain up and test your knowledge with this USMLE Step 1 practice question. What's your guess? 💭 bit.ly/3yNkQuH

02/25/2023

There’s an ideal amount of physical activity that can help your patients live longer. Learn more with the AMA about what the ideal exercise per week is.

10/03/2022

BREAKING NEWS
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us, Homo sapiens, different from other hominins?

Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. Importantly, Pääbo also found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. This ancient flow of genes to present-day humans has physiological relevance today, for example affecting how our immune system reacts to infections.

Pääbo’s seminal research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics. By revealing genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominins, his discoveries provide the basis for exploring what makes us uniquely human.

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10/01/2022

“If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same. It is the message you leave behind you that counts.”

When medicine laureate and neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini turned 100 years old in April 2009, she was celebrated in Rome.

Her fascinating life experiences and achievements during her 100 years were definitely causes to celebrate. Besides discovering nerve growth factor (NGF) and being a trailblazer in science, Levi-Montalcini also spent time serving as senator for life in the Italian Senate.

A normal day in her life at the age of 100 could apparently be summarised like this: sleeping 5 hours, eating once a day at lunchtime and keeping your brain active. Perhaps these routines should be considered if one aims to live over 100 years.

Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first Nobel Prize laureate ever to reach the age of 100. She passed away three years later but her messages and achievements will never be forgotten.

09/30/2022

🤩….Who wouldn’t want to be a fly on the wall (grass?) and listen to MSMP students discuss bioethics with Dr. K.

08/26/2022

: Researchers at Harvard University used Human Connectome data to characterize rate and timing of myelin development. They found evidence for prolonged myelin development into the 20's, reflecting ongoing plasticity for learning & complex cognitive functioning.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JRwU1m

08/25/2022

Hans Krebs who identified the citric acid cycle - also known as the Krebs cycle - was born on this day in 1900. The cycle is a series of reactions that convert nutrients into other molecules with a large amount of chemical energy.

08/20/2022

This is one of the most famous images in photographic history.

The first ever X-ray image was taken in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901.

The image of his wife Bertha's hand (wedding ring clearly visible) propelled Röntgen into an international celebrity. The medical implications were immediately realised. Röntgen named the discovery X-radiation, or X-rays, after the mathematical term 'X' which denotes something unknown.

Read the story 'A Helping Hand from the Media' at: https://bit.ly/2S3TlUS

08/15/2022

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What is life?

This is a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries, one of the most famous being Erwin Schrödinger. On the eve of Schrödinger's birthday we invite you to listen to our podcast episode with 2001 medicine laureate Paul Nurse and hear his thoughts on the matter.

Listen here: https://play.acast.com/s/nobelprizeconversations/paulnurse-nobelprizeconversations

Paul Nurse will also be joining us for the Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December to discuss this question in more depth. Stay tuned!