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Foundation Medicine announces discovery of high incidence of ERBB2 alterations in MPUC patients

Foundation Medicine, Inc. today announced the discovery of a high incidence of ERBB2 (HER2) extracellular domain alterations in patients with micropapillary urothelial carcinoma, a particularly aggressive form of urinary bladder cancer, using FoundationOne. The research was published in the current edition of Clinical Cancer Research.

10 Jan 2014

Study: HIV-specific poison kills persisting HIV-infected cells during antiretroviral therapy

A team including University of North Carolina and NIH scientists has demonstrated in a mouse model that an HIV-specific poison can kill cells in which the virus is actively reproducing despite antiretroviral therapy.

10 Jan 2014

SHY hypothesis challenges theory that sleep strengthens brain connections

Why do animals ranging from fruit flies to humans all need to sleep? After all, sleep disconnects them from their environment, puts them at risk and keeps them from seeking food or mates for large parts of the day.

10 Jan 2014

Men who are fit and obese run higher risk of having heart attack than unfit, lean men

In a study published in the European Heart Journal, a research team at Ume- University, Sweden, has shown that physical fitness in your teens can reduce the risk of heart attack later in life, while men who are fit and obese in their teens run a higher risk of having a heart attack than unfit, lean men.

10 Jan 2014

Virginia Tech engineer receives NSF RAPID grant to study effects of antibiotic resistance genes on Colorado flood

The World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control has recognized antibiotic resistance "as a critical health challenge of our time," said Amy Pruden, a Virginia Tech environmental engineer who is credited with pioneering the concept of antibiotic resistance genes as environmental pollutants.

10 Jan 2014

FDA approves Ocular Therapeutix’s ReSure Sealant for ophthalmic use

Ocular Therapeutix announced today it has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to commercialize the ReSure Sealant in the United States, with an indication for prevention of postoperative fluid egress from incisions with a demonstrated wound leak following cataract surgery.

10 Jan 2014

Researchers examine genetic variants associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Contrary to a common belief, researchers have shown that genetic regions associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes were unlikely to have been beneficial to people at stages through human evolution.

10 Jan 2014

AOM associated with significant increases in direct costs incurred by consumers, health care system

Acute otitis media, or ear infection, is the most common ailment among kids of preschool age and younger in the U.S., primarily because these children have immature middle-ear drainage systems, higher exposure to respiratory illnesses and undeveloped immune systems.

10 Jan 2014

Research: SLPI protein produced by body in response to injury plays vital role in patients with ALF

Findings published in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases journal, Hepatology, indicate that infection, the commonest cause of mortality in patients with acute liver failure, may be decreased by inhibiting the activity of a protein found in saliva called SLPI.

10 Jan 2014

Minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer

UCLA researchers have found that minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status are far more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they are diagnosed with the disease than white patients and those in higher economic brackets.

10 Jan 2014

Researchers deploy potential new weapon against HIV

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have deployed a potential new weapon against HIV - a combination therapy that targets HIV-infected cells that standard therapies cannot kill.

10 Jan 2014

Teens with a history of concussions more likely to suffer from depression

Teens with a history of concussions are more than three times as likely to suffer from depression as teens who have never had a concussion, finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

10 Jan 2014

Brown University biochemist targets diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes can make insulin but their bodies use it so poorly that glucose levels run amok. It's been difficult for scientists to understand what's going awry in the way that tiny, fast-moving proteins signal and regulate glucose metabolism. As a result, while drugs can help somewhat, many patients still must monitor their glucose and inject insulin.

10 Jan 2014

Researchers reveal newest weapon to visualize shape and motion of RNA

Qi Zhang sees himself as a warrior. In his lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he wages war on genetic diseases such as cancer and heart disease on a battlefield measured with single atoms.

10 Jan 2014

Biologists discover new pathway for repairing nerve cells

Penn State University molecular biologists have discovered a brand-new pathway for repairing nerve cells that could have implications for faster and improved healing. The researchers describe their findings in a paper titled "Dendrite injury triggers DLK-independent regeneration," which will be published in the 30 January 2014 issue of the journal Cell Reports.

10 Jan 2014

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Foundation Medicine announces discovery of high incidence of ERBB2 alterations in MPUC patients

Study: HIV-specific poison kills persisting HIV-infected cells during antiretroviral therapy

SHY hypothesis challenges theory that sleep strengthens brain connections

Men who are fit and obese run higher risk of having heart attack than unfit, lean men

Virginia Tech engineer receives NSF RAPID grant to study effects of antibiotic resistance genes on Colorado flood

FDA approves Ocular Therapeutix’s ReSure Sealant for ophthalmic use

Researchers examine genetic variants associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

AOM associated with significant increases in direct costs incurred by consumers, health care system

Research: SLPI protein produced by body in response to injury plays vital role in patients with ALF

Minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer

Researchers deploy potential new weapon against HIV

Teens with a history of concussions more likely to suffer from depression

Brown University biochemist targets diabetes

Researchers reveal newest weapon to visualize shape and motion of RNA

Biologists discover new pathway for repairing nerve cells

Aetna is helping to reverse abuse of prescription painkillers

Researchers discover key step to stem bleeding, reduce obstruction in blood flow during clot formation

Prenatal exposure to maternal stress hormones predicts nicotine dependence for daughters

Remission from depression is delayed in adults who experienced physical abuse in childhood

Discovery opens new therapeutic avenue for chronic skin condition affecting millions

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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