Cranial irradiation causes brain degeneration
(Medical Xpress)—Cranial irradiation saves the lives of brain cancer patients. It slows cancer progression and increases survival rates. Unfortunately, patients who undergo cranial irradiation often...
View ArticleBioengineers develop new approach to regenerate back discs
Cell therapies may stop or reverse the pain and disability of degenerative disc disease and the loss of material between vertebrae, according to Duke University scientists.
View ArticleYoung children with autism benefit regardless of high-quality treatment model
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who receive high-quality early intervention benefit developmentally...
View ArticleRNA diagnostic test from paraffin improves lung cancer diagnosis over routine...
Knowing what type of lung cancer a patient has is critical to determine which drug will work best and which therapies are safest in the era of personalized medicine. Key to making that judgment is an...
View ArticlePeople with pre-diabetes who drop substantial weight may ward off type 2...
People with pre-diabetes who lose roughly 10 percent of their body weight within six months of diagnosis dramatically reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next three years,...
View ArticleMS drug shows promise for preventing heart failure
A drug already approved to treat multiple sclerosis may also hold promise for treating cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of the cardiac muscle—a disorder that often leads to heart failure, researchers...
View ArticleMolecular relative of p53 tumor suppressor protein also helps cancer cells...
They say you can pick your friends, but not your family. The same may hold true for related proteins. The protein TAp73 is a relative of the well-known, tumor-suppressor protein p53. It shares...
View ArticleResearchers step closer to custom-building new blood vessels
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have coaxed stem cells into forming networks of new blood vessels in the laboratory, then successfully transplanted them into mice. The stem cells are made by reprogramming...
View ArticlePotential neurological treatments often advance to clinical trials on shaky...
Clinical trials of drug treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's often fail because the animal studies that preceded them were poorly designed or biased in their...
View ArticleScientists detail alzheimer's progression, step by step
(HealthDay)—New research seeks to delineate just how Alzheimer's disease unfolds in the human brain.
View ArticleDirect-to-consumer genetic testing kits vary in predictions of disease risk
(Medical Xpress)—An in-depth analysis and comparison study conducted by investigators at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health demonstrated variations in predicted disease risks by companies that...
View ArticleLegalise doping or lose the spectacle of sport
Sport, at both international and local levels, seems to constantly be in a doping crisis. It may be time to consider legalising performance enhancers because zero tolerance is clearly not working.
View ArticleAmyloid formation: Designer proteins light the way forward
Insight into the mechanism of protein aggregation provides a model system that could lead to treatments for several associated diseases
View ArticleInformation in brain cells' electrical activity combines memory, environment,...
(Medical Xpress)—The information carried by the electrical activity of neurons is a mixture of stored memories, environmental circumstances, and current state of mind, scientists have found in a study...
View ArticleDiscovery of a new class of white blood cells uncovers target for better...
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new class of white blood cells in human lung and gut tissues that play a critical role as the first line of...
View ArticleCancer biology: Targeting tumors with 'stapled' peptides
(Phys.org) —Designer peptides containing chemically stabilized helices emerge as a potent way to activate anti-tumor proteins inside cells.
View ArticleResearchers devise method for growing 3-D heart tissue
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at MIT and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have developed a method of growing living 3-D tissue using a modified version of a machine normally used to build integrated...
View ArticleNano drug crosses blood-brain tumor barrier, targets brain tumor cells and...
(Phys.org) —An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood-brain tumor barrier and kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to...
View ArticleAstronomy technology used for early detection of age-related macular...
(Phys.org) —Engineers used to designing state of the art instruments for ground and space based telescopes are now applying their expertise to the development of a diagnostic test for the developed...
View ArticleAccelerated search identifies drug targets for neurodegenerative disease
(Medical Xpress)—Like Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease caused when a toxic protein...
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