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Study finds clear predictors of rising A1c levels in young people with type 1 diabetes

Managing type 1diabetes during the first two decades of life is challenging. Insulin requirements change along with the stages of life --- childhood, puberty, young adulthood, and beyond.

7 Jun 2018

Colorado researchers suggest new combination therapy for advanced head and neck cancer

The five-year survival rate for locally-advanced head and neck cancer is only 46 percent, even with treatments including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and/or genetically targeted treatments such as cetuximab.

7 Jun 2018

MIT neuroscientists identify strategy that the brain uses to perform flexible computations

Humans can perform a vast array of mental operations and adjust their behavioral responses based on external instructions and internal beliefs.

7 Jun 2018

Researchers look for deeper explanations into causes of Alzheimer's disease

For more than 20 years, much of the leading research on Alzheimer's disease has been guided by the "amyloid hypothesis."

7 Jun 2018

New approach to kill specific bacteria could be alternative to antibiotics

A new approach to killing C. difficile that silences key bacterial genes while sparing other bacteria may provide a new way to treat the most common hospital-acquired bacterial infection in the United States, according to researchers.

7 Jun 2018

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks linked to drug addiction behaviors

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks during drug cue exposure, decision-making, inhibitory control, and social-emotional processing are associated with drug addiction behaviors, according to a systematic review of more than 100 published neuroimaging studies by experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published Wednesday, June 6 in the journal Neuron.

7 Jun 2018

Teetotallers take more sick days than drinkers

According to a new study from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, people who do not drink alcohol are just as likely to miss work due to sickness as heavy drinkers. The study results appeared in the latest issue of the journal Addiction.

7 Jun 2018

International 'A' team unveils new glioblastoma atlas

It takes an "A" team to make headway against glioblastoma, a highly aggressive type of brain cancer. Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant brain tumor in adults. In addition to the caliber of the researchers involved, in this case "A" also stands for atlas.

6 Jun 2018

Overload of zinc in muscles leads to cachexia in cancer patients

It's estimated that nearly one-third of all cancer deaths are caused not by the cancer itself but by cachexia - a debilitating muscle-wasting syndrome that affects an estimated 80 percent of advanced cancer patients. Cachexia is linked to reduced tolerance for cancer therapy, poor quality of life, and accelerated death, but there are no effective treatments and its cause is still largely unknown.

6 Jun 2018

Study findings may lead to new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases

In the body, the immune system often begins its response to various attackers in the same way: the body activates immune cells, so-called phagocytes, which migrate to sites of inflammation caused by, for example, foreign pathogens or damaged tissue.

6 Jun 2018

New method for efficient tracing of neuronal pathways

New technologies have been likened, famously, to magic. At first, even the few who understand how they work have a tendency to sit back and marvel. Soon, flaws and limitations are detected and the invention process begins again, resulting, almost always, in improvements.

6 Jun 2018

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients linked with higher levels of inflammatory protein

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients is associated with higher levels of the inflammatory protein galectin-3, according to research published in Endocrine Connections.

6 Jun 2018

Boosting electrical activity in the eye may lead to new treatments for painful dry eye

A boost of electrical activity in the eye's mucous membranes may lead to new treatments for the painful condition known as dry eye.

6 Jun 2018

The Human Brain Project successfully enters the third phase

"This is a major step and the result of a lot of hard and excellent work by our members and partners all over Europe", says the HBPs Scientific Director, Katrin Amunts, a medical doctor and neuroscientist based at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Full Professor for Brain Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany.

6 Jun 2018

Study: Maternal fatty acid balance critical for reducing obesity in children

The balance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in the tissues of female mammals, which previous research has suggested can impact the incidence of obesity in their offspring, appears to do so through its effect on the microbial population of the infant's gastrointestinal tract.

6 Jun 2018

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Study finds clear predictors of rising A1c levels in young people with type 1 diabetes

Colorado researchers suggest new combination therapy for advanced head and neck cancer

MIT neuroscientists identify strategy that the brain uses to perform flexible computations

Researchers look for deeper explanations into causes of Alzheimer's disease

New approach to kill specific bacteria could be alternative to antibiotics

Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks linked to drug addiction behaviors

Teetotallers take more sick days than drinkers

International 'A' team unveils new glioblastoma atlas

Overload of zinc in muscles leads to cachexia in cancer patients

Study findings may lead to new approaches for treating inflammatory diseases

New method for efficient tracing of neuronal pathways

Depression in type-1 diabetes patients linked with higher levels of inflammatory protein

Boosting electrical activity in the eye may lead to new treatments for painful dry eye

The Human Brain Project successfully enters the third phase

Study: Maternal fatty acid balance critical for reducing obesity in children

Study finds how colon cancer alters its genes to escape the immune system

Scientists uncover new way to make cancers sensitive to treatment

Zebrafish may hold answers to how tumors develop in childhood muscle cancer

Study reveals how pesticides cause Parkinson's Disease

Researchers identify urinary markers that predict bone problems in hip replacement patients

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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