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Novel non-pharmacological approach shows promise to manage chronic pain

Chronic pain afflicts over 100 million people across the United States. It diminishes their productivity and their quality of life and costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year to medically manage. It shatters people's emotional wellbeing, tears apart families and claims lives through suicides and accidental drug overdoses.

1 Mar 2017

UC scientists discover new strategy to personalize blood, brain cancer therapy

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine have discovered a new potential strategy to personalize therapy for brain and blood cancers.

1 Mar 2017

Johns Hopkins researchers find no evidence of CMV in aggressive brain cancer tissues

In a rigorous study of tumor tissue collected from 125 patients with aggressive brain cancers, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have found no evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and conclude that a link between the two diseases, as claimed by earlier reports, likely does not exist.

1 Mar 2017

Duke researchers use new technique for assessing cancer cell's stiffness

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have discovered a way to detect signs of cancer on a cell-by-cell basis using two lasers and a camera.

1 Mar 2017

WSU study aims to reduce burden of antimicrobial resistance

The death last year of a woman in Reno, Nev., from an infection resistant to every type of antibiotic available in the U.S. highlights how serious the threat of antimicrobial resistance has become.

1 Mar 2017

Mayo Clinic researchers identify new genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's in African-Americans

A Mayo Clinic research team has found a new gene mutation that may be a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease in African-Americans.

28 Feb 2017

Emory researchers uncover novel link between SV2C protein and Parkinson's disease

Emory investigators have discovered a novel link between a protein called SV2C and Parkinson's disease (PD). Prior work had suggested that the SV2C gene was associated with the curious ability of cigarette smoking to reduce PD risk.

28 Feb 2017

Danish researchers get closer to finding treatment for malignant cerebral tumour in children

DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival rate, amongst other things because it is not possible to operate because the tumour is located in the brain stem.

28 Feb 2017

Scientists identify potential therapeutic target for aggressive lymphomas

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III have identified a possible therapeutic target for 2 types of very aggressive lymphomas.

28 Feb 2017

TUM experts decipher secrets of Achilles' heel

Walking, running, sprinting -- every movement of the foot stretches the Achilles' tendon. When jumping, the loads can approach ten times the body weight.

28 Feb 2017

Biologists develop new way to inhibit cancer cell cleanup mechanism

The genomes of cancer cells--cells that do not obey signals to stop reproducing--are riddled with genetic mutations, causing them inadvertently to make many dysfunctional proteins.

28 Feb 2017

Study suggests new strategy for treating Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common form of dementia. In search for new drugs for AD, the research team, led by Professor Mi Hee Lim of Natural Science at UNIST has developed a metal-based substance that works like a pair of genetic scissors to cut out amyloid-β (Aβ), the hallmark protein of AD.

28 Feb 2017

Scientists develop in vitro stem cell-based bioassay for detecting biological activity of BoNTs

Scientists at the Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern have developed an in vitro stem cell-based bioassay grown on multi-electrode arrays capable of detecting the biological activity of Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins.

28 Feb 2017

Researchers develop nerve wrapping nanofiber mesh to facilitate regeneration, restore function

A NIMS-Osaka University joint research team developed a mesh which can be wrapped around injured peripheral nerves to facilitate their regeneration and restore their functions.

28 Feb 2017

CHLA investigator receives $1.7 million NIH grant to study heart regeneration after injury

Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, an investigator at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has been awarded nearly $1.7 million, over a four year period, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the heart's circulatory system.

28 Feb 2017

Genetic variation may be reason for overreaction of immune system to viruses

Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered that genetic variation is the reason why some immune systems overreact to viruses.

28 Feb 2017

Activated T-cells promote heart failure after heart attack

Chronic inflammation after a heart attack can promote heart failure and death. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have now shown that activated T-cells — part of the immune system's inflammatory response — are both necessary and sufficient to produce such heart failure.

28 Feb 2017

KRAS ‘imbalances’ that emerge over time may influence cancer treatment response

Choosing among cancer treatments increasingly involves determining whether tumor cells harbor specific, mutated "oncogenes" that drive abnormal growth and that may also be especially vulnerable or resistant to particular drugs.

28 Feb 2017

Researchers justify alternative theory about cause of type 1 diabetes

An international team of researchers led by City of Hope's Bart Roep, Ph.D., the Chan Soon-Shiong Shapiro Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and professor/founding chair of the Department of Diabetes Immunology, has been able to justify an alternative theory about the cause of type 1 diabetes (T1D) through experimental work.

28 Feb 2017

Scientists discover how genetic mutation disarms tumor-suppressing BRCA1 proteins in breast cancer

Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited mutation in their BRCA1 gene. In health, the gene is responsible for suppressing tumors. In disease, the gene goes terribly awry.

28 Feb 2017

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Novel non-pharmacological approach shows promise to manage chronic pain

UC scientists discover new strategy to personalize blood, brain cancer therapy

Johns Hopkins researchers find no evidence of CMV in aggressive brain cancer tissues

Duke researchers use new technique for assessing cancer cell's stiffness

WSU study aims to reduce burden of antimicrobial resistance

Mayo Clinic researchers identify new genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's in African-Americans

Emory researchers uncover novel link between SV2C protein and Parkinson's disease

Danish researchers get closer to finding treatment for malignant cerebral tumour in children

Scientists identify potential therapeutic target for aggressive lymphomas

TUM experts decipher secrets of Achilles' heel

Biologists develop new way to inhibit cancer cell cleanup mechanism

Study suggests new strategy for treating Alzheimer's disease

Scientists develop in vitro stem cell-based bioassay for detecting biological activity of BoNTs

Researchers develop nerve wrapping nanofiber mesh to facilitate regeneration, restore function

CHLA investigator receives $1.7 million NIH grant to study heart regeneration after injury

Genetic variation may be reason for overreaction of immune system to viruses

Activated T-cells promote heart failure after heart attack

KRAS ‘imbalances’ that emerge over time may influence cancer treatment response

Researchers justify alternative theory about cause of type 1 diabetes

Scientists discover how genetic mutation disarms tumor-suppressing BRCA1 proteins in breast cancer

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