News tagged with biochemical journal


Scientists reverse memory loss in animal brain cells

Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have taken a major step in their efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders such as Alzheimer's ...

Neuroscience created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | 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

Study finds novel therapy that may prevent damage to the retina in diabetic eye diseases

Researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have identified a compound that could interrupt the chain of events that cause damage to the retina in diabetic retinopathy. The finding is significant because ...

Medical research created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find success with new immune approach to fighting some cancers

A national research collaboration of senior researchers, including a researcher from Moffitt Cancer Center, has found that 20 to 25 percent of "heavily pre-treated" patients with a variety of cancers who enrolled in a clinical ...

Cancer created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Possible treatment target found for main cause of severe liver disease in kids

Unexpected discovery of a new molecular signature for a destructive and often lethal pediatric liver disease may lead to a new therapeutic target for the hard-to-treat condition.

Medical research created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New mechanism regulating insulin secretion may explain genetic susceptibility to diabetes

New Zealand research revealing a new mechanism for how glucose stimulates insulin secretion may provide a new explanation for how a gene that makes people more susceptible to diabetes – called TCF7L2 – actually contributes ...

Diabetes created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Allergies? Your sneeze is a biological response to the nose's 'blue screen of death'

Who would have thought that our noses and Microsoft Windows' infamous blue screen of death could have something in common? But that's the case being made by a new research report appearing online in The FASEB Journal. Specif ...

Immunology created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientist discovers new target for cancer therapy

Tumour cells need far more nutrients than normal cells and these nutrients cannot get into the malignant cells without transporters.

Cancer created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0