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U-M researchers describe new approach to discovering potential cancer treatments

Researchers at the University of Michigan have described a new approach to discovering potential cancer treatments that requires a fraction of the time needed for more traditional methods.

30 Sep 2014

CNIO researchers discover new specific marker for cancer stem cells

Tumours are mosaics of cells that are morphologically and molecularly very different. In this cellular heterogeneity, it is calculated that only 1-2% of the tumour mass is made up of cancer stem cells, which over the past years have been suggested to be responsible for the origin of cancer and for the resistance to conventional chemical therapies.

30 Sep 2014

DNA Diagnostics Center launches new Paternity Test Kit

DNA Diagnostics Center, the world's largest DNA Paternity Testing Company, announces the launch of a new Paternity Test Kit to be sold in national retail stores, expanding the company's reach in the marketplace.

30 Sep 2014

Prenatal maternal stress exposure to Quebec ice storm predicts epigenetic profile of offspring

The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec's Ice Storm (1998) predicts the epigenetic profile of her child, a new study finds.

30 Sep 2014

Researchers uncover molecular interaction between key proteins in cell division

Researchers from Guillermo Montoya's team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with Isabelle Vernos' Group from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have uncovered the molecular interaction between TACC3 and chTOG, key proteins in forming the internal cellular framework that enables and sustains cell division.

30 Sep 2014

Findings indicate that our bodies are used as perceptual "ruler" to measure the world around us

People tend to perceive their dominant hand as staying relatively the same size even when it's magnified, lending support to the idea that we use our hand as a constant perceptual "ruler" to measure the world around us.

30 Sep 2014

TSRI study points way to potential therapies for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that a gene mutation linked to hereditary spastic paraplegia, a disabling neurological disorder, interferes with the normal breakdown of triglyceride fat molecules in the brain. The TSRI researchers found large droplets of triglycerides within the neurons of mice modeling the disease.

30 Sep 2014

Research: Gut bacteria may cause animals to gain weight

A species of gut bacteria called Clostridium ramosum, coupled with a high-fat diet, may cause animals to gain weight. The work is published this week in mBio-, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

30 Sep 2014

Research finding opens door to potential treatment for MPS IIIB

MPS IIIB is a devastating and currently untreatable disease that causes progressive damage to the brain, leading to profound intellectual disability, dementia and death -- often before reaching adulthood.

30 Sep 2014

Three institutions collaborate to study genetics of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia

Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Medical School and collaborators at two other institutions will undertake the largest whole genome sequencing study funded to date, as they seek to better understand bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

30 Sep 2014

Researchers explain how molecular structure of the heart muscle changes in heart failure

In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, researchers at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have explained how the function of a key protein in the heart changes in heart failure.

30 Sep 2014

Nondigestible compounds in apples may help prevent obesity-related disorders

Scientists at Washington State University have concluded that nondigestible compounds in apples - specifically, Granny Smith apples - may help prevent disorders associated with obesity. The study, thought to be the first to assess these compounds in apple cultivars grown in the Pacific Northwest, appears in October's print edition of the journal Food Chemistry.

30 Sep 2014

UI study finds sleep twitches activate the brain in a unique way

A University of Iowa study has found twitches made during sleep activate the brains of mammals differently than movements made while awake.

30 Sep 2014

Review article provides novel insight into brain changes in alcohol-related sleep-wake disturbances

A review article published online in Behavioral Brain Research provides novel insight into changes that happen in the brain as a result of chronic alcohol exposure that can lead to disruptions in the sleep cycle.

30 Sep 2014

Neural recordings can be used to forecast spontaneous decisions

You're waiting at a bus stop, expecting the bus to arrive any time. You watch the road. Nothing yet. A little later you start to pace. More time passes. "Maybe there is some problem", you think. Finally, you give up and raise your arm and hail a taxi. Just as you pull away, you glimpse the bus gliding up. Did you have a choice to wait a bit longer? Or was giving up too soon the inevitable and predictable result of a chain of neural events?

30 Sep 2014

Finding ways to rejuvenate "immunological age" of the brain

How the brain ages is still largely an open question - in part because this organ is mostly insulated from direct contact with other systems in the body, including the blood and immune systems. In research that was recently published in Science, Weizmann Institute researchers Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Neurobiology Department and Dr. Ido Amit of Immunology Department found evidence of a unique "signature" that may be the "missing link" between cognitive decline and aging.

30 Sep 2014

New approach to solve global challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss

Solving global challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss requires evolutionary thinking, argues a new study published online in Science Express that was co-authored by Bruce Tabashnik of the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

30 Sep 2014

Arisaph Pharmaceuticals receives STTR grants to develop cancer drug candidates

Arisaph Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on discovery and development of novel therapies for cardiometabolic diseases and cancer, announced today that it has been awarded a phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant and a supplemental phase I grant, both from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

29 Sep 2014

Manzo Pharmaceuticals reports successful testing of lactase producing probiotic, Lacto-Freedom

Manzo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced at the three month mark in a six month animal study, that the results of the lactase producing probiotic, Lacto-Freedom™, has been very successful.

29 Sep 2014

Scientists show how individual neurons in the human brain react to morphed faces

An international team of scientists, involving Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience and Head of Bioengineering at the University of Leicester, has shown how individual neurons in the human brain react to ambiguous morphed faces.

29 Sep 2014

Medical Science News

U-M researchers describe new approach to discovering potential cancer treatments

CNIO researchers discover new specific marker for cancer stem cells

DNA Diagnostics Center launches new Paternity Test Kit

Prenatal maternal stress exposure to Quebec ice storm predicts epigenetic profile of offspring

Researchers uncover molecular interaction between key proteins in cell division

Findings indicate that our bodies are used as perceptual "ruler" to measure the world around us

TSRI study points way to potential therapies for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Research: Gut bacteria may cause animals to gain weight

Research finding opens door to potential treatment for MPS IIIB

Three institutions collaborate to study genetics of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia

Researchers explain how molecular structure of the heart muscle changes in heart failure

Nondigestible compounds in apples may help prevent obesity-related disorders

UI study finds sleep twitches activate the brain in a unique way

Review article provides novel insight into brain changes in alcohol-related sleep-wake disturbances

Neural recordings can be used to forecast spontaneous decisions

Finding ways to rejuvenate "immunological age" of the brain

New approach to solve global challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss

Arisaph Pharmaceuticals receives STTR grants to develop cancer drug candidates

Manzo Pharmaceuticals reports successful testing of lactase producing probiotic, Lacto-Freedom

Scientists show how individual neurons in the human brain react to morphed faces

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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