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Experts discuss potential of maintaining cognitive function through dietary intake

Aging is a highly complex process marked by a succession of events that may lead to an altered brain function, including neurodegenerative diseases. To date, the precise cause of cognitive decline remains quite elusive.

30 Aug 2018

HKBU chemists discover metal-based inhibitor to treat triple-negative breast cancer

Chemists at Hong Kong Baptist University have discovered the use of a metal compound that inhibits the enzyme closely associated with triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult forms of breast cancer to treat.

30 Aug 2018

Eating breakfast later and dinner earlier may help reduce body fat

Researchers at the University of Surrey have demonstrated that adjusting the timings of breakfast and dinner can reduce body fat.

30 Aug 2018

A new national Career Development Consortium for Excellence in Glycosciences

Over the next five years, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, will award approximately $20 million to four academic centers to launch a new national Career Development Consortium for Excellence in Glycosciences.

30 Aug 2018

Study opens new avenues for engineering smells and tastes

Every smell, from a rose to a smoky fire to a pungent fish, is composed of a mixture of odorant molecules that bind to protein receptors inside your nose.

30 Aug 2018

$Genome-wide association study provides insight into biologic mechanisms leading to fractures$

Genome-wide association study provides insight into biologic mechanisms leading to fractures

A paper titled "Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of fracture risk: genome wide association and mendelian randomization study" appeared today in the British Medical Journal.

30 Aug 2018

Researchers discover brain cells that express sense of time within experiences, memories

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway have discovered a network of brain cells that express our sense of timewithin experiences and memories.

30 Aug 2018

Novel approach reveals metabolic vulnerabilities in kidney cancer

In order to halt the growth of cancer cells, you have to know what feeds them. Researchers at the nationally recognized Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a novel approach using glucose that may open up new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.

30 Aug 2018

Researchers take major step forward in finding safe and non-addictive pain killer

With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have been working to find a safe, non-addictive pain killer to help fight the current opioid crisis in this country.

30 Aug 2018

Cancer-hunting stem cells may be potential drug delivery tool for medulloblastoma

The latest in a series of laboratory breakthroughs could lead to a more effective way to treat the most common brain cancer in children.

30 Aug 2018

'Mystery illness' afflicting diplomats linked to RF/MW radiation

Writing in advance of the September 15 issue of Neural Computation, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, says publicly reported symptoms and experiences of a "mystery illness" afflicting American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba and China strongly match known effects of pulsed radiofrequency/microwave electromagnetic radiation.

30 Aug 2018

Three-pronged therapy triggers axons to regrow after spinal cord injury in rodents

Neuroscientists at UCLA, Harvard University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have identified a three-pronged treatment that triggers axons – the tiny fibers that link our nerve cells and enable them to communicate – to regrow after complete spinal cord injury in rodents. Not only did the axons grow through scars, they could also transmit signals across the damaged tissue.

29 Aug 2018

Study yields therapeutic clues to combat drug resistance in rare aggressive cancer

Stephen Elledge, PhD, and his team did not set out to find therapies that could render tumors less resistant to therapy or make existing drugs more potent against a rare form of cancer. But these are precisely the clinical insights that their most recent study has yielded.

29 Aug 2018

Food increases thermogenesis of brown fat

Brown fat consumes energy, which is the reason why it could be important for preventing obesity and diabetes.

29 Aug 2018

New study reports key steps towards development of acne vaccine

A new study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology reports important steps that have been taken towards the development of an acne vaccine.

29 Aug 2018

Study adds more evidence to underlying autoimmune mechanisms in type 1 diabetes

Immune reactions are usually a good thing - the body's way of eliminating harmful bacteria and other pathogens. But people also rely on molecular "brakes," or checkpoints, to keep immune systems from attacking their own cells and organs and causing so-called autoimmune disease.

29 Aug 2018

Soluble versions of immune cell protein could help treat Alzheimer's disease, study reveals

Researchers at the University of Florida have discovered that a modified version of an important immune cell protein could be used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

29 Aug 2018

New study supports motor cortex 'excitability' as cause of restless legs syndrome

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say new experiments using magnetic pulse brain stimulation on people with moderate to severe restless legs syndrome have added to evidence that the condition is due to excitability and hyperarousal in the part of the brain's motor cortex responsible for leg movement.

29 Aug 2018

Researchers uncover why some cancers grow faster than others

University of Toronto researchers have uncovered why some cancers grow faster than others. The team led by Liliana Attisano, Professor in U of T's Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, has identified a protein called NUAK2, which is produced by cancer cells to boost their proliferation and whose presence in tumors is associated with poor disease prognosis.

29 Aug 2018

Researchers discover reason why many bladder cancer patients do not respond to immunotherapy

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that a particular type of cell present in bladder cancer may be the reason why so many patients do not respond to the groundbreaking class of drugs known as PD-1 and PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors, which enable the immune system to attack tumors.

29 Aug 2018

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Experts discuss potential of maintaining cognitive function through dietary intake

HKBU chemists discover metal-based inhibitor to treat triple-negative breast cancer

Eating breakfast later and dinner earlier may help reduce body fat

A new national Career Development Consortium for Excellence in Glycosciences

Study opens new avenues for engineering smells and tastes

Genome-wide association study provides insight into biologic mechanisms leading to fractures

Researchers discover brain cells that express sense of time within experiences, memories

Novel approach reveals metabolic vulnerabilities in kidney cancer

Researchers take major step forward in finding safe and non-addictive pain killer

Cancer-hunting stem cells may be potential drug delivery tool for medulloblastoma

'Mystery illness' afflicting diplomats linked to RF/MW radiation

Three-pronged therapy triggers axons to regrow after spinal cord injury in rodents

Study yields therapeutic clues to combat drug resistance in rare aggressive cancer

Food increases thermogenesis of brown fat

New study reports key steps towards development of acne vaccine

Study adds more evidence to underlying autoimmune mechanisms in type 1 diabetes

Soluble versions of immune cell protein could help treat Alzheimer's disease, study reveals

New study supports motor cortex 'excitability' as cause of restless legs syndrome

Researchers uncover why some cancers grow faster than others

Researchers discover reason why many bladder cancer patients do not respond to immunotherapy

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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