A new study, co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher, set out to identify the most effective strategies for helping people quit vaping. The findings, published today in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, suggest that varenicline, a prescription medication often used to help people stop smoking, and text message-based interventions can help people quit.  

People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality risk compared to all-day coffee drinkers, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.

Cells degrade components that are no longer needed through autophagy. New results show that a weak molecular interaction is essential for this process.

By modifying this interaction, it is possible to artificially trigger autophagy, which could then enable the degradation of deposits in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, or support cancer therapies.

The study was published in the journal Nature Cell Biology and was led by Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft, a member of the CIBSS Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg, and Dr. Florian Wilfling from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt.