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Key mechanism identified for how antiviral immune responses reprogram liver metabolism

Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences identified a key mechanism for how antiviral immune responses reprogram liver metabolism. Their recent study, which was published in the renowned scientific journal Immunity, investigated the communication between inflammation and liver metabolism during chronic viral infection.

26 Nov 2019

GN Corporation granted Indian patent for novel corneal cell transplantation using nano-composite gel sheet

A novel cell transplantation method to treat corneal endothelial diseases such as bullous keratopathy using a nano-composite gel sheet developed by Japanese scientists was granted Indian patent to GN Corporation (GNC), Japan.

26 Nov 2019

Discovery may provide clues for treatment of autism and schizophrenia

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified that a gene critical to clearing up unnecessary proteins plays a role in brain development and contributes to the development of autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

25 Nov 2019

Discovery may lead to possible treatments for autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia

25 Nov 2019

Article reveals new mechanism of programmed aging

Nature has sentenced humans to an inevitable death from the time of birth; the natural instrument of execution is the aging process. According to modern scientific notions, only two root causes of aging can be: stochastic physiological damage or the implementation of a special genetic program in the body.

25 Nov 2019

New partnership aims to explore, cultivate innovations in cell and gene therapy

Some patients who have not responded to traditional medicines are now experiencing remarkable recoveries thanks to next-generation immunotherapies. These therapies equip a patient's own immune cells to recognize, target, and destroy cancer cells.

25 Nov 2019

Do 160 million Americans really like their health plans? Kind of

Articulating his proposal for health care reform, former Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the number of Americans who, he said, were more than perfectly satisfied with the coverage they have.

21 Nov 2019

Researchers identify a promising drug pair to attack deadly childhood brain cancers

Researchers have devised a new plan of attack against a group of deadly childhood brain cancers collectively called diffuse midline gliomas, including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, thalamic glioma and spinal cord glioma.

20 Nov 2019

Regenstrief Institute and Care Revolution partner to improve care in nursing homes

Regenstrief Institute is investing and partnering with Care Revolution, a medical startup focused on improving care at nursing facilities, controlling costs and reducing trips to the hospital.

19 Nov 2019

Pioneering scientist wins 2019 Foulkes Foundation Medal for contributions to biomedical science

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa from Newcastle University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute has won the 2019 Foulkes Foundation Medal for her ground-breaking contributions to biomedical science, it was announced today [Tuesday 19 November, 2019].

18 Nov 2019

TARA's organ-on-a-chip technology can directly measure in vivo cardiac performance, study shows

TARA Biosystems, Inc. today reported in vivo and in vitro functional data from a study of investigational candidate, MYK-491, showing that TARA's human iPSC-derived organ-on-a-chip technology can directly measure in vivo cardiac performance.

18 Nov 2019

Yale-led study provides roadmap to discover new treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new treatment targets for the disease.

15 Nov 2019

Research explains why immunotherapy fails against prostate cancer bone metastases

Prostate cancer that spreads to the bone triggers the destruction of bone tissue that, in turn, thwarts the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors by blocking the development of T cells that are crucial to successful treatment, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Cell.

14 Nov 2019

TACC announces role as key collaborator in NIH grant to study chronic pain and opioid dependence

Pain impacts nearly every individual at some point in their lives. With more than 25 million adults in the U.S. experiencing daily pain, the U.S. is facing a crisis due to the high prevalence of chronic pain and associated opioid use disorder and overdose deaths.

14 Nov 2019

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds face barriers to seeking medical attention

England is a multi-ethnic society, often characterized as a “super-diversity” country. The ethnic minority background as doubled in size from 2001 to 2011 and the number steadily increases. Super-diversity pertains to a shift in recent immigration patterns, which allows other ethnicities from across the globe, to move and live in the region.

12 Nov 2019

Collaborative study shows sex-specific processes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Recent studies have found a high genetic similarity of the psychiatric diseases schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, whose disease-specific changes in brain cells show an overlap of more than 70 percent.

12 Nov 2019

Contraceptive drug effective in preventing and regressing cervical cancer in mice

A new study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, reports that medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), the active ingredient in the common contraceptive injection Depo-Provera, was effective in preventing the development of cervical cancer in mice with precancerous lesions.

12 Nov 2019

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds face more barriers to seeking medical help

The study published in Psycho-Oncology found that, in England, women from ethnic minority backgrounds were more likely to feel too embarrassed to talk to a GP (75-91%) than white women (8%).

11 Nov 2019

Integrating European life sciences in the area of imaging

The European Commission has officially established Euro-BioImaging - which provides life scientists with open access to a broad range of technologies and resources in biological and biomedical imaging - as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

7 Nov 2019

Natural language processing helps evaluate electronic messages from ESLD patients

Natural language processing, the technology that lets computers read, decipher, understand and make sense of human language, is the driving force behind internet search engines, email filters, digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, and language-to-language translation apps.

From Johns Hopkins Medicine 7 Nov 2019

Translation News and Research

Key mechanism identified for how antiviral immune responses reprogram liver metabolism

GN Corporation granted Indian patent for novel corneal cell transplantation using nano-composite gel sheet

Discovery may provide clues for treatment of autism and schizophrenia

Discovery may lead to possible treatments for autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia

Article reveals new mechanism of programmed aging

New partnership aims to explore, cultivate innovations in cell and gene therapy

Do 160 million Americans really like their health plans? Kind of

Researchers identify a promising drug pair to attack deadly childhood brain cancers

Regenstrief Institute and Care Revolution partner to improve care in nursing homes

Pioneering scientist wins 2019 Foulkes Foundation Medal for contributions to biomedical science

TARA's organ-on-a-chip technology can directly measure in vivo cardiac performance, study shows

Yale-led study provides roadmap to discover new treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Research explains why immunotherapy fails against prostate cancer bone metastases

TACC announces role as key collaborator in NIH grant to study chronic pain and opioid dependence

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds face barriers to seeking medical attention

Collaborative study shows sex-specific processes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Contraceptive drug effective in preventing and regressing cervical cancer in mice

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds face more barriers to seeking medical help

Integrating European life sciences in the area of imaging

Natural language processing helps evaluate electronic messages from ESLD patients

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