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Mount Sinai scientists receive NIH grant to study clinical benefit of IGF-1 in children with PMS

Scientists at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1, a promising treatment for a subtype of autism called Phelan McDermid Syndrome.

27 Aug 2013

Two Genomic Pathways Tagged For Roles In Schizophrenia

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26 Aug 2013

BARDA Awards Novan $7.8M To Develop Thermal Burns Treatment

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26 Aug 2013

Mary Ann Liebert launches new Chinese version website

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is pleased to announce the launch of its new Chinese version website. The Chinese version has been developed in collaboration with The Charlesworth Group, extending easy access to Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.'s more than 80 industry-leading journals.

26 Aug 2013

Scientists receive NIH grant to study commercially-available drug for treatment of PMS

Scientists at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), a promising treatment for a subtype of autism called Phelan McDermid Syndrome (PMS).

26 Aug 2013

Scientists discover mechanisms of GATA3 gene that govern blood stem cell self-renewal process

Stem cell scientists at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered the gene GATA3 has a role in how blood stem cells renew themselves, a finding that advances the quest to expand these cells in the lab for clinical use in bone marrow transplantation, a procedure that saves thousands of lives every year.

26 Aug 2013

Researchers identify compound that eases symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have brought new clarity to the picture of what goes awry in the brain during Parkinson's disease and identified a compound that eases the disease's symptoms in mice.

26 Aug 2013

Scientists Shed New Light On Malignant Pancreatic Cancer

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23 Aug 2013

Athera Transfers Annexin A5 Project To Medirista

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23 Aug 2013

Age, sex and race may predict risk factor reduction in patients with coronary heart disease

Risk factor modification efforts could help reduce the chance of another heart attack and death among the more than 15 million Americans with coronary heart disease. Yet some patients-especially women and minorities-leave the hospital with poorly managed risk factors.

23 Aug 2013

Brain Study Suggests New Way To Treat Anxiety

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22 Aug 2013

Appetite-Controlling Hormone Leaves Obese People Still Hungry

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22 Aug 2013

PDI Expands Focus With Mdx Commercialization Deal

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22 Aug 2013

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

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22 Aug 2013

Aging Gene Tied To Myeloma

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22 Aug 2013

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

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22 Aug 2013

Novel Approach Developed On Antitumor Immunotherapy

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22 Aug 2013

NIH Grants $5.2M To Vanderbilt Colon Cancer Investigator

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22 Aug 2013

Takeda Launches New Subsidiary In Peru

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22 Aug 2013

Psychogenics Picks Up Alzheimer’s Animal Model From USF

PsychoGenics obtained an exclusive license from the University of South Florida to its APP/PS1 double transgenic mice, which co-express the M146L presenilin 1 (PS1) mutation and the double mutations at K670N/M671L (Swedish mutation) in the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

22 Aug 2013