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MicroRNA-Based Therapy May Be New Weapon To Combat Cancer
A technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju, PhD, a biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicin...Full Article
Racial Disparities In Survival Outcomes Shown In Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients
In what is believed to be the largest dataset study to date examining the role of race on survival outcome for pediatric patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, investigators at Rutge...Full Article
'Death Star' Bacterial Structures That Inject Proteins Can Be Tapped To Deliver Drugs
By scraping tubeworms off the bottom of boats in the San Diego harbor to study them, San Diego State University researchers discovered that a beneficial bacterium that aids th...Full Article
Research Suggests How Environmental Toxin Produced By Algae May Lead To ALS
Can a computer be used to explain why an environmental toxin might lead to neurodegenerative disease? According to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, a computer gener...Full Article
Getting New Medical Treatments To Patients Can Be Harder Than Landing On Mars
Getting new medical treatments from the lab benchtop to patients' bedsides can be harder and more expensive than putting a lander on Mars. But it doesn’t have to be, says Tiff...Full Article
Studying Drivers Behind Cardiac Arrhythmias
Despite advances in medical imaging, the mechanisms leading to the irregular contractions of the heart during heart rhythm disorders remain poorly understood. Research from t...Full Article
Breast Cancer Screening Found Effective In Men At High Risk For The Disease
Men at high risk of developing breast cancer may benefit from mammography, or breast X-ray, screening for the disease, a new study shows. The study, publishing in the journal...Full Article
Imaging Reveals New Results From Landmark Stem Cell Trial For Stroke
Researchers led by Sean I. Savitz, MD, reported today in the journal Stem Cells that bone marrow cells used to treat ischemic stroke in an expanded Phase I trial were not only...Full Article
Study Gives Clues To The Origin Of Huntington's Disease, And A New Way To Find Drugs
The first signs of Huntington's, an inherited disease that slowly deteriorates bodies and minds, don't typically surface until middle age. But new findings suggest that someth...Full Article
Starting HIV Treatment In ERs May Be Key To Ending HIV Spread Worldwide
In a follow-up study conducted in South Africa, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have evidence that hospital emergency departments (EDs) worldwide may be key strate...Full Article
More Than Lyme: Tick Study Finds Multiple Agents Of Tick-Borne Diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia Un...Full Article
Most American Adults Do Not Know That HPV Causes Oral, Anal, And Penile Cancers
More than 70% of U.S. adults are unaware that human papillomavirus (HPV) causes anal, penile, and oral cancers, according to an analysis led by researchers at The University o...Full Article
Speeding Up The Drug Discovery Process To Help Patients
An international research team has developed a new strategy that can predict the potential clinical implications of new therapeutic compounds based on simple cellular response...Full Article
UIC Opens Three New Health Care Simulation Centers
This fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago celebrates the opening of three health care simulation centers. The facilities, which are run individually by the university’s...Full Article
The Genetics Of Cancer
University of Delaware molecular biologist Mona Batish and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and University of California, Los Angeles, have identified a new circular ri...Full Article
Researchers Discover New Drug Target For The Fatal Lung Disease PAH
Scientists have identified a molecular pathway that contributes to the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, often fatal condition that has no cure. ...Full Article
Scientists Discover New Breakthrough In Cancer Hair Loss Treatment
Scientists have determined a new way to protect the hair follicle from chemotherapy in an effort to prevent hair loss as a result of cancer treatments. Researchers based at T...Full Article
How Memories Form And Fade
Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven't seen in years yet easily forget the name of a person you just met a moment ago? In othe...Full Article
Scratching The Surface Of How Your Brain Senses An Itch
Light touch plays a critical role in everyday tasks, such as picking up a glass or playing a musical instrument. The sensation is also an essential part of the body's protecti...Full Article
Results Announced For Pioneering Research On The Effect Of Mutant Genes On Stuttering Therapy
Hollins Communications Research Institute (HCRI), a national center for stuttering research and therapy innovation, just completed another research initiative in collaboration...Full Article
Gene Therapy Helps Functional Recovery After Stroke
A new gene therapy turns glial cells--abundant support cells in the brain--into neurons, repairing damage that results from stroke and significantly improving motor function i...Full Article
New Federal Guidelines For BRCA Testing: Should You Be Screened?
Eager to learn about her family tree, Dorothy Pomerantz sent a saliva sample to an online testing company last summer. To her "utter shock," the results revealed that she has ...Full Article
FDA Phase 1 Trial Shows Hydrogel To Repair Heart Is Safe To Inject In Humans—A First
Ventrix, a University of California San Diego spin-off company, has successfully conducted a first-in-human, FDA-approved Phase 1 clinical trial of an injectable hydrogel that...Full Article
Scientists Identify Gene As A Master Regulator In Schizophrenia
Using computational tools to investigate gene transcription networks in large collections of brain tissues, a scientific team has identified a gene that acts as a master regul...Full Article
Brain Changes May Help Track Dementia, Even Before Diagnosis
Even before a dementia diagnosis, people with mild cognitive impairment may have different changes in the brain depending on what type of dementia they have, according to a st...
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