https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The MedAustron Center for Ion Therapy has demonstrated the safety and efficacy of both, proton and carbon ion therapy for the treatment of skull based chordomas, a bone located cancer. In a recent publication in Cancers, the institution presented conclusive data from the treatment of 44 patients with this rare cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-ion-therapy-safe-efficacious-treatment.html Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:20:33 EDT news611500829 Optogenetics uses light to control brain processes. It is based on light-controlled proteins such as channelrhodopsin-2, an ion channel that opens when it's exposed to light, thus activating cellular processes. In collaboration with colleagues from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have now shed light on its mode of action. The team headed by Professor Klaus Gerwert and Professor Peter Hegemann has published its report in PNAS on April 19, 2019. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-triggers-brain.html Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:01:17 EDT news475315271 A study in The Journal of General Physiology provides new evidence that the ubiquitous sodium pump is more complex—and more versatile—than we thought. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-reveal-pathway-sodium.html Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:01:12 EDT news315482462 When you stand in the 27km-long Large Hadron Collider tunnel deep under Switzerland and France it looks as if the chain of blue magnets simply stretches off to infinity. So when people talk about putting particle accelerators in hospital basements to treat cancer, there is understandably some reticence as to their size and cost. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-proton-therapy.html Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:43:31 EDT news294565237 It was the talk of Davos, grabbing the imagination of a forum otherwise shrouded in gloom: a miracle machine that cracks the code of life within hours and could revolutionise healthcare. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-davos-wowed-device-code-life.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:10:02 EST news247032579 British researchers have identified specific resistance mutations for two classes of p7 inhibitor, which may explain their lack of effectiveness in clinical trials combined with current standard of care. Study results support the role of p7 inhibitor combinations as potential components of future HCV-specific therapies and are available in the July issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-p7-protein-resistance-mutations-drug.html Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:41:00 EDT news228476444