Researchers reveal how a protein common in cancers jumps anti-tumor mechanisms
A Stony Brook University-led international team of infectious disease researchers have discovered how a cellular protein, called STAT3, which is overactive in a majority of human cancers, interferes...
View ArticleSepsis study comparing three treatment methods shows same survival rate
Survival of patients with septic shock was the same regardless of whether they received treatment based on specific protocols or the usual high-level standard of care, according to a five-year clinical...
View ArticleThousands of unknown antigens identified
Researchers of Utrecht University, Intravacc and the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection used a new method to identify hitherto unknown peptide antigens. This type of...
View ArticleInformation overload acts 'to dim the lights' on what we see
(Medical Xpress)—Too much visual information causes a phenomenon known as 'load induced blindness', with an effect akin to dimming the lights, reports a new UCL study.The new findings could be used to...
View ArticleResearchers find a lobster's sense of smell may hold the key to better...
(Medical Xpress)—Could lobsters help protect soldiers someday? A team of University of Florida researchers says they might.
View ArticleNew genetic analysis identifies ancestry, reduces false positives in...
(Medical Xpress)—Ancestral background has much to do with our likelihood of developing or staving off disease. But separating the associations between who we are and where we come from, and genetic...
View ArticleNegative relationships, fatigue are more significant than symptoms in IBS...
(Medical Xpress)—Social relationships, fatigue and other coexisting medical problems have a stronger effect on how patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) rate their overall health than the...
View ArticleResearch sheds light on links between memory and smell
(Medical Xpress)—Scents and smells can form the basis of some of the most significant memories that humans form in their lives.
View ArticleStudy shows dog DNA can help human cancer patients
(Medical Xpress)—Using genomic analysis to study cancer in dogs can help develop new therapies for humans with cancer, according to a proof-of-concept study led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...
View ArticleAutism signs can be identified earlier than formerly thought
(Medical Xpress)—Many characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorders can be identified by the age of 2 and are predictive of which children will be diagnosed with these disorders when they're older, a...
View ArticleHow age opens the gates for Alzheimer's
With advancing age, highly-evolved brain circuits become susceptible to molecular changes that can lead to neurofibrillary tangles—a hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease, Yale researchers report the week of...
View ArticleOut of mind, out of sight: Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their...
(Medical Xpress)—New research shows that, contrary to what was previously assumed, suppressing unwanted memories reduces their influence on behaviour, and sheds light on how this process happens in the...
View ArticleStress undermines empathic abilities in men but increases them in women
Stressed males tend to become more self-centred and less able to distinguish their own emotions and intentions from those of other people. For women the exact opposite is true. This is the main finding...
View ArticleResearch shows breast cancer gene affects brain development
(Medical Xpress)—The BRCA1 gene, known for its role in suppressing the growth of breast and ovarian tumors, could be necessary for brain development. In a study appearing in the Proceedings of the...
View ArticleImmunology researchers uncover pathways that direct immune system to turn...
(Medical Xpress)—A key discovery explaining how components of the immune system determine whether to activate or to suppress the immune system, made by Kelvin Lee, MD, Professor of Oncology and...
View ArticleMajor breakthrough in developing new cancer drugs: Capturing leukemic stem cells
The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital's Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank, recently achieved a...
View ArticleChronic sleep disturbance could trigger onset of Alzheimer's
People who experience chronic sleep disturbance—either through their work, insomnia or other reasons—could face an earlier onset of dementia and Alzheimer's, according to a new pre-clinical study by...
View ArticleNew therapeutic target discovered for Alzheimer's disease
A team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Medical University of South Carolina and San Diego-based American Life Science Pharmaceuticals, Inc., report...
View ArticleNew therapeutic target identified for acute lung injury
A bacterial infection can throw off the equilibrium between two key proteins in the lungs and put patients at risk for a highly lethal acute lung injury, researchers report.
View ArticleReducing anxiety with a smartphone app
Playing a science-based mobile gaming app for 25 minutes can reduce anxiety in stressed individuals, according to research published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for...
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