Is the first cure for advanced rabies near?
Rabies virus is incurable and almost always fatal once it has invaded the central nervous system, with the victim doomed to suffer a horrible death.
Sep 28, 2023
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Rabies virus is incurable and almost always fatal once it has invaded the central nervous system, with the victim doomed to suffer a horrible death.
Sep 28, 2023
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An international team led by a newly appointed Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine has shed light on the underlying mechanisms of a mysterious brain abnormality that occurs during human ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Parkinson's disease, characterized by various motor dysfunctions, is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world. It is known that specific gene mutations that are passed down through families are responsible ...
Sep 11, 2023
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An international team led by researchers at UCL and the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre have developed in mice a gene therapy that significantly reduces the hearing loss associated with Norrie ...
Aug 29, 2023
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In the first study of its kind, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and rheumatologists at Karolinska Sjukhuset have characterized T cells in the muscle tissue of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. They show ...
Aug 14, 2023
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A team led by researchers at Purdue University and Purdue spinoff company Tymora Analytical Operations has developed a technique that may reveal signs of Parkinson's disease in urine samples.
May 16, 2023
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Scientists in Cambridge and Berlin have used a form of gene therapy to increase levels of the so-called "cold shock protein" in the brains of mice, protecting them against the potentially devastating impact of prion disease.
Mar 24, 2023
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Increasingly dense cell clusters in growing tumors convert blood vessels into fiber-filled channels. This makes immune cells less effective, as findings by researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Strasbourg suggest. ...
Mar 17, 2023
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The drug denosumab is currently used to treat osteoporosis and bone metastases. For more than a decade, its potential therapeutic benefit in the treatment of breast cancer has also been studied. However, due to conflicting ...
Mar 7, 2023
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"Even though I'm a professor now, I still spend a lot of time in the lab, as I know that when I'm at the microscope, working hands on, that's when I get the new ideas," says Peter Nilsson, professor of organic chemistry at ...
Jan 25, 2023
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