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Researchers develop new technique that measures speed of rotating semen

The maths of collective behaviour has provided a new technique for selecting the best semen for artificial insemination in livestock.

17 Oct 2016

Icelandic people more likely to carry novel rare genetic variant linked to risk of Alzheimer's disease

People with Icelandic heritage are more likely to carry a novel rare mutation in the TM2D3 gene, which leads to greater risk for Alzheimer's disease, based on a new study published October 14th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics by Johanna Jakobsdottir of the Icelandic Heart Association, Sven van der Lee of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and colleagues.

17 Oct 2016

UT Southwestern researcher wins prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award

Dr. Rama Ranganathan, Director of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Comprehensive Center for Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded a prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health's Common Fund.

17 Oct 2016

New stem cell-based strategy may help predict heart-damaging effects of drugs

Coaxing stem cells from patients to become heart cells may help clinicians personalize drug treatments and prevent heart-related toxicity.

17 Oct 2016

Activation of chemical with ER-β may help reduce obesity by converting white fat to brown fat

New research, published online in The FASEB Journal, suggests that activation of a chemical called Beta-LGND2 by the estrogen receptor Beta (ER-Beta) reduces obesity and metabolic diseases in mice by converting bad fat (white fat) to good fat (brown fat).

17 Oct 2016

Research shows how mitochondrial targeting antioxidants could help treat osteoarthritis

High cholesterol might harm more than our cardiovascular systems. New research using animal models, published online in The FASEB Journal, suggests that high cholesterol levels trigger mitochondrial oxidative stress on cartilage cells, causing them to die, and ultimately leading to the development of osteoarthritis.

17 Oct 2016

Scientists develop software package to predict chemical properties of molecules

Scientists from MIPT's Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases together with Inria research center, Grenoble, France have developed a software package called Knodle to determine an atom's hybridization, bond orders and functional groups' annotation in molecules.

17 Oct 2016

Immune system plays important role in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, research reveals

A new paper, co-written by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, increases the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—one of the most common lethal genetic disorders—and points to potential therapeutic approaches.

14 Oct 2016

Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones

Researchers have discovered that factors secreted by gut bacteria might help prevent or treat kidney stones.

14 Oct 2016

Common hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer may increase dementia risk in men

A common hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer may double a man's risk of dementia, regardless of his age, Penn Medicine researchers reported in a study published online today in JAMA Oncology.

14 Oct 2016

Scientists at NIH and Emory University induce sustained remission in SIV-infected monkeys

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Emory University have experimentally induced sustained remission of SIV, the simian form of HIV, in infected monkeys.

14 Oct 2016

Cocoa flavanol consumption linked to improvements in cardiometabolic biomarkers

To the tantalizing delight of chocolate lovers everywhere, a number of recent studies employing various methods have suggested that compounds in cocoa called flavanols could benefit cardiovascular health.

14 Oct 2016

Cleveland Clinic cancer researchers receive $2.4 million grant from NIH NHLBI

The National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a $2.4 million grant over four years to Cleveland Clinic cancer researchers Jaroslaw Maciejewski, M.D., and Richard Padgett, Ph.D., to test the hypothesis that alterations in the pattern of splicing of target genes play a major role in the establishment or progression of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

14 Oct 2016

New imaging method helps observe activation of neural circuits in the brain

Watching millions of neurons in the brain interacting with each other is the ultimate dream of neuroscientists! A new imaging method now makes it possible to observe the activation of large neural circuits, currently up to the size of a small-animal brain, in real time and three dimensions.

14 Oct 2016

New global Human Cell Atlas initiative could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

An ambitious global initiative to create a Human Cell Atlas - a description of every cell in the human body as a reference map to accelerate progress in biomedical science - is being discussed at an International meeting in London this week.

14 Oct 2016

UPV participates in Lumiblast project to develop novel treatments for hard-to-treat brain tumours

The Polytechnic University of Valencia is taking part in Lumiblast, a European project to develop an innovative approach to hard-to-treat brain tumours like glioblastomas.

14 Oct 2016

Swedish researchers develop new, low-cost method to examine individual leukemia cells

Leukemia is a disease in which each cell can exhibit different genetic traits, and now Swedish researchers have found a cheap way to examine the individual cells. Reported in Nature Communications, the breakthrough could transform leukemia treatment.

14 Oct 2016

Small changes in diet can reduce CVD risk by 30%

Exchanging few commercially regular-consumed food items with improved fat quality reduces total and LDL cholesterol.

14 Oct 2016

Mental health researchers make promising breakthrough in early detection of psychosis

Mental health researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the early detection of the risk of psychosis, with the eventual hope that patients could be given appropriate treatments earlier to prevent psychotic episodes from occurring.

14 Oct 2016

Crohn's disease appears to have two distinct genetic subtypes, study finds

Crohn's disease, a common inflammatory disorder of the intestinal tract, can have devastating consequences for a patient's quality of life and is notoriously hard to treat successfully, in part because its course and severity vary so much from one case to the next.

14 Oct 2016

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Researchers develop new technique that measures speed of rotating semen

Icelandic people more likely to carry novel rare genetic variant linked to risk of Alzheimer's disease

UT Southwestern researcher wins prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award

New stem cell-based strategy may help predict heart-damaging effects of drugs

Activation of chemical with ER-β may help reduce obesity by converting white fat to brown fat

Research shows how mitochondrial targeting antioxidants could help treat osteoarthritis

Scientists develop software package to predict chemical properties of molecules

Immune system plays important role in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, research reveals

Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones

Common hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer may increase dementia risk in men

Scientists at NIH and Emory University induce sustained remission in SIV-infected monkeys

Cocoa flavanol consumption linked to improvements in cardiometabolic biomarkers

Cleveland Clinic cancer researchers receive $2.4 million grant from NIH NHLBI

New imaging method helps observe activation of neural circuits in the brain

New global Human Cell Atlas initiative could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

UPV participates in Lumiblast project to develop novel treatments for hard-to-treat brain tumours

Swedish researchers develop new, low-cost method to examine individual leukemia cells

Small changes in diet can reduce CVD risk by 30%

Mental health researchers make promising breakthrough in early detection of psychosis

Crohn's disease appears to have two distinct genetic subtypes, study finds

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