Study finds that a subset of children often considered to have autism may be...
Children with a genetic disorder called 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, who frequently are believed to also have autism, often may be misidentified because the social impairments associated with their...
View ArticleThe 'choosy uterus': New insight into why embryos do not implant
(Medical Xpress)—Fertility experts at the University of Southampton and University of Warwick have found new insights into why some fertilized eggs can embed in a uterus and why some do not.
View ArticleYoung children quickly adopt ritualistic behavior, study shows
(Medical Xpress)—Although rituals such as shaking hands or saying, "bless you" after a sneeze don't make practical sense, these arbitrary social conventions give people a sense of belonging in a...
View ArticleShining light on neurodegenerative pathway
University of Adelaide researchers have identified a likely molecular pathway that causes a group of untreatable neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease.
View ArticleScientists find promising way to boost body's immune surveillance via p53
Researchers at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new mechanism involving p53, the famous tumour suppressor, to fight against aggressive cancers. This strategy works by...
View ArticleFragile X syndrome protein linked to breast cancer progression
A research team led by scientists from VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, in collaboration with several research centers and hospitals in Italy, the United Kingdom...
View ArticleAre nanodiamond-encrusted teeth the future of dental implants?
(Medical Xpress)—UCLA researchers have discovered that diamonds on a much, much smaller scale than those used in jewelry could be used to promote bone growth and the durability of dental implants.
View ArticleNovel vaccine approach to human cytomegalovirus found effective
An experimental vaccine against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, which endangers the developing fetus, organ transplant recipients, patients with HIV and others who have a weakened immune system,...
View ArticleDifferent hormone therapy formulations may pose different risks for heart...
Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug...
View ArticleNovel treatment for gonorrhea acts like a 'live vaccine,' prevents reinfection
A new gonorrhea treatment, based on an anti-cancer therapy developed by a Buffalo startup company, has successfully eliminated gonococcal infection from female mice and prevented reinfection, according...
View ArticleUCLA doctors successfully 'vacuum' two-foot blood clot out of patient's heart
Todd Dunlap, 62, arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's emergency room on Aug. 8 suffering from shortness of breath, fatigue and extreme cold. When a CT scan revealed a 24-inch clot stretching...
View ArticleNew HIV-1 replication pathway discovered
Current drug treatments for HIV work well to keep patients from developing AIDS, but no one has found a way to entirely eliminate the virus from the human body, so patients continue to require lifelong...
View ArticleDrivers of financial boom and bust may be all in the mind, study finds
Market bubbles that lead to financial crashes may be self-made because of instinctive biological mechanisms in traders' brains that lead them to try and predict how others behave, according to a study...
View ArticleFluorescent compounds allow clinicians to visualize Alzheimer's disease as it...
What if doctors could visualize all of the processes that take place in the brain during the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease? Such a window would provide a powerful aid for...
View ArticleNanoscale neuronal activity measured for the first time
A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has been developed by a researcher at Queen Mary University of London.
View ArticleLifestyle, age linked to diabetes-related protein
Over the last decade researchers have amassed increasing evidence that relatively low levels of a protein called sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) can indicate an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes and...
View ArticleResearchers identified new gene which may have the ability to prevent HIV...
A team of researchers led by King's College London has for the first time identified a new gene which may have the ability to prevent HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from spreading after it enters the...
View ArticleInterference with cellular recycling leads to cancer growth, chemotherapy...
Overactivity of a protein that normally cues cells to divide sabotages the body's natural cellular recycling process, leading to heightened cancer growth and chemotherapy resistance, UT Southwestern...
View ArticleMotor control development continues longer than previously believed
The development of fine motor control—the ability to use your fingertips to manipulate objects—takes longer than previously believed, and isn't entirely the result of brain development, according to a...
View ArticleStudy helps deconstruct estrogen's role in memory
The loss of estrogens at menopause increases a woman's risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, yet hormone replacement therapy can cause harmful side effects.
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