News tagged with biochemical changes


Previously unknown cell interaction is key in immune system attacks

Most of the time, the immune system is the body's protector, warding off invading viruses and bacteria before they can lead to infection and disease. But in autoimmune diseases, the immune system does an about face, turning ...

Medical research created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find regulator linking exercise to bigger, stronger muscles

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a previously unknown protein in muscles that spurs their growth and increased power following resistance exercise. They suggest that artificially raising the protein's ...

Medical research created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the dietary causes of heart disease

A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart – unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized (by ...

Cardiology created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Metabolic 'breathalyzer' reveals early signs of disease

The future of disease diagnosis may lie in a "breathalyzer"-like technology currently under development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Potential for earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Australian scientists have identified biochemical changes that commonly occur in the DNA of women with ovarian cancer, which may help diagnose the cancer at an earlier stage in the future.

Cancer created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Multi-functional anti-inflammatory/anti-allergic developed

A synthetic, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic family of drugs to combat a variety of illnesses while avoiding detrimental side effects has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher.

Inflammatory disorders created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers link cancer to failures in chromosome protection for the first time

A study published today in the journal Nature Genetics explores a new mechanism that may contribute to the development of several tumours, including Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia, a type of cancer that affects more than a ...

Genetics created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cisplatin-resistant cancer cells sensitive to experimental anticancer drugs, PARP inhibitors

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a preclinical study published ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid can identify patients with Alzheimer's disease

Analysis of specific biomarkers in a cerebrospinal fluid sample can differentiate patients with Alzheimer's disease from those with other types of dementia. The method, which is being studied by researchers at Sahlgrenska ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study identifies chemical changes in brains of people at risk for Alzheimer's disease

A brain imaging scan identifies biochemical changes in the brains of normal people who might be at risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to research published in the August 24, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medica ...

Neuroscience created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer study overturns current thinking about gene activation

(Medical Xpress)—A new Australian study led by Professor Susan Clark from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research shows that large regions of the genome – amounting to roughly 2% – are epigenetically activated ...

Cancer created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify promising biomarkers and new therapeutic targets for kidney cancer

Using blood, urine and tissue analysis of a unique mouse model, a team led by UC Davis researchers has identified several proteins as diagnostic biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for kidney cancer. Subject to follow-up ...

Cancer created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ability to chart the molecular progress of diabetes brings personalized medicine closer to realization

Researchers in Singapore have succeeded in tracking, for the first time, the molecular changes caused by type 2 diabetes that affect how the body handles glucose production in the liver. In a series of experiments ...

Diabetes created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fasting may benefit patients with epilepsy, study suggests

Children with persistent and drug-resistant seizures treated with the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet may get an added therapeutic benefit from periodic fasting, according to a small Johns Hopkins Children's Center ...

Medical research created Dec 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research opens new pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven have discovered a new target molecule for the development of a treatment against Alzheimer's disease. There is currently no cure for this disease. Many candidate drugs fail because they also ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0