Study finds tumor suppressor may actually fuel aggressive leukemia
New research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that blocking a protein normally credited with suppressing leukemia may be a promising therapeutic strategy for an aggressive form of the...
View ArticleStudy identifies molecular process behind form of non-syndromic deafness
Researchers identify an underlying molecular process that causes a genetic form of non-syndromic deafness in a new study that also suggests affected families may be at risk of damage to other organs.
View ArticleFirst US surgery transmitted live via Google Glass (w/ Video)
A surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is the first in the United States to consult with a distant colleague using live, point-of-view video from the operating room via Google...
View ArticleResearcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain...
(Medical Xpress)—University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the...
View ArticleStudy finds that apoptosis triggers replication of common viruses
Researchers from Children's National Medical Center have found that an alternate, "escape" replication process triggered by apoptosis—the process of cell death or "cell suicide"—appears to be common in...
View ArticleNew treatments better than standard ones just over half the time
University of South Florida Distinguished Professor Benjamin Djulbegovic, MD, PhD, has studied the ethics of randomized clinical trials and their effectiveness in evaluating the outcomes of new...
View ArticleStudy relies on twins and their parents to understand height-IQ connection
The fact that taller people also tend to be slightly smarter is due in roughly equal parts to two phenomena—the same genes affect both traits and taller people are more likely than average to mate with...
View ArticleWinter depression not as common as many think, research shows
New research suggests that getting depressed when it's cold and dreary outside may not be as common as is often believed.
View ArticleInvestigational oral regimen for hepatitis C shows promise in NIH trial
In a study of an all-oral drug regimen, a majority of volunteers with liver damage due to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were cured following a six-month course of therapy that combined an...
View ArticleGenetic variant identified that may increase heart disease risk among people...
A newly discovered genetic variant may increase the risk of heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes by more than a third, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health...
View ArticleSize of personal space is affected by anxiety
The space surrounding the body (known by scientists as 'peripersonal space'), which has previously been thought of as having a gradual boundary, has been given physical limits by new research into the...
View ArticleScientists discover gene that controls the birth of neurons
Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered an unusual gene that controls the generation of neurons. This important finding, which is crucial in understanding serious...
View ArticleNegative feedback stabilizes memories
(Medical Xpress)—Memories may be maintained in the brain through a mechanism familiar to any engineer—negative and positive feedback loops, according to researchers Sukbin Lim and Mark Goldman at the...
View ArticleStudy indicates visual adaptation enhanced by sleep and may be tied to memory
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at University College in London has conducted a study that suggests that visual adaptation is enhanced by sleep and might also be tied to memory. In their paper...
View ArticleKeep your cool: Isothermal PCR for next-generation sequencing
(Medical Xpress)—In the realm of DNA sequencing, the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a well-established tool for amplifying a specific DNA sequence by reiteratively processing what's known as a...
View ArticleResearchers find humans process echo location and echo suppression differently
(Medical Xpress)—A trio of German researchers has found that human beings listening to sounds that have a corresponding echo, process the sounds differently depending on whether they are using echo...
View ArticleOne in four has alarmingly few intestinal bacteria
All people have trillions of bacteria living in their intestines. If you place them on a scale, they weigh around 1.5 kg. Previously, a major part of these 'blind passengers' were unknown, as they are...
View ArticleIntestinal flora determines health of obese people
The international consortium MetaHIT, which includes the research group of Jeroen Raes (VIB / Vrije Universiteit Brussel), publishes in the leading journal Nature that there is a link between richness...
View ArticleBrains on demand: Scientists succeed in growing human brain tissue in 'test...
(Medical Xpress)—Complex human brain tissue has been successfully developed in a three-dimensional culture system established in an Austrian laboratory. The method described in the current issue of...
View ArticleBlocking molecular pathway reverses pulmonary hypertension in rats
Pulmonary hypertension, a deadly form of high blood pressure that develops in the lungs, may be caused by an inflammation-producing molecular pathway that damages the inner lining of blood vessels,...
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