Early Family Experience Can Reverse the Effects of Genes October 10, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Early family experience can reverse the effect of a genetic variant linked to depression, UCLA researchers report in the current issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry. | |
 Structure of enzyme offers treatment clues for diabetes, Alzheimer's October 11, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of insulin-degrading enzyme, a promising target for new drugs because it breaks down ... | |
Molecular 'Signature' Protects Cells from Viruses October 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Viruses are cunning little parasites: they breed by forcing the affected cells to do what they want. By fake commands they get them to produce new viruses. However, the cell often notices that there is something fishy going ... | |
Phase II Study: Revlimid successful October 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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U.S. scientists say a Phase II trial of Revlimid in patients with incurable blood cancer has produced positive results. | |
Listening to the sound of skin cancer October 16, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia can now detect the spread of skin cancer cells through the blood by literally listening to their sound. The unprecedented, minimally invasive technique causes melanoma cells ... | |
Progress made in HIV vaccine development November 16, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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U.S. researchers report successfully testing two candidate vaccines that may eventually be used together to protect against HIV infection. | |
Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth January 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A new discovery in stem cell research may mean big things for cancer patients in the future. Gary Van Zant, Ph.D., and a research team at the University of Kentucky published their findings today in Nature Genetics. | |
Brain maps online February 27, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Digital atlases of the brains of humans, monkeys, dogs, cats, mice, birds and other animals have been created and posted online by researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. | |
 For Easy Tasks, Brain Preps and Decides Together March 06, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A Georgia Tech researcher has discovered that for tasks involving spatial processing, preparing for the task and performing it are not two separate brain processes, but one – at least when there are a small ... | |
Position of car indicator lights affects safety March 22, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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People find it harder to make rapid decisions about which way a car will turn if its amber indicator lights are inside the headlights (i.e. nearer the middle of the car) than if the indicator lights are outside the headlights, ... | |
New 'matrix of harm' for drugs of abuse March 23, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new study published today in the Lancet proposes that drugs should be classified by the amount of harm that they do, rather than the sharp A, B, and C divisions in the UK Misuse of Drugs Act. | |
Preventing cancer without killing cells March 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in EMBO reports. It was previously unknown whether cellular senescence or ... | |
Study shows isolation of stem cells may lead to a treatment for hearing loss April 06, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Have you ever walked by someone listening to their i-Pod loud enough for you recognize the song? Studies have shown noise-induced hearing loss is going to become the next big epidemic affecting our younger generation though ... | |
Brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results April 16, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco. | |
Scientists identify key to integrating transplanted nerve cells into injured tissue April 26, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have identified a key mechanism for successfully transplanting tissue into the adult central nervous system. The study found that ... | |
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