Medical research
Scientists uncover trigger to fatal neurodegenerative disease
University of Tennessee researcher uses computer simulation to pinpoint changes in molecular structure that leads directly to disease.
Jun 22, 2011
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News tagged with biophysics
Medical research
Researchers capture images of a protein complex that keeps hearts beating
For years, a multidisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins researchers has tracked an elusive creature, a complex of proteins thought to be at fault in some cases of sudden cardiac death. As they report Nov. 5 in the online edition ...
Nov 5, 2014
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Neuroscience
Brain diseases with molecular diversity
Parkinson's and multisystem atrophy (MSA), both neurodegenerative diseases, are associated with the accumulation of alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain. Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Medical research
Memory-boosting chemical identified in mice
Memory improved in mice injected with a small, drug-like molecule discovered by UCSF San Francisco researchers studying how cells respond to biological stress.
Jun 14, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research targets medications for those with depression
"The antidepressant bupropion is a negative allosteric modulator of serotonin type 3A receptors," was published in the September issue of the journal Neuropharmacology.
Oct 28, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers develop system for using everyday glucose monitors to detect COVID-19 antibodies
A trio of Johns Hopkins scientists—a pharmacologist, a biomedical engineer, and a biophysicist—are pooling their knowledge to design a device that can detect whether a person has antibodies linked to SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Medical research
Mathematical model helps design efficient multi-drug therapies
For years, doctors treating those with HIV have recognized a relationship between how faithfully patients take the drugs they prescribe, and how likely the virus is to develop drug resistance. More recently, research has ...
Sep 2, 2012
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Putting the brakes on Parkinson's: Anle138b prevents clumping of synunclein protein
The earliest signs of Parkinson's disease can be deceptively mild. The first thing that movie star Michael J. Fox noticed was twitching of the little finger of his left hand. For years, he made light of the apparently harmless ...
Apr 23, 2013
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Genetics
Mystery of breast cancer risk gene solved, 20 years after its discovery
More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast cancer, Yale scientists have pinpointed the molecular mechanism that allows those mutations to wreak their havoc.
Oct 4, 2017
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Genetics
Antiviral enzyme contributes to several forms of cancer
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered that a human antiviral enzyme causes DNA mutations that lead to several forms of cancer.
Jul 14, 2013
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