A team headed by Professor Albert Rizvanov, director of the Gene and Cell Technologies Open Lab, has created a gene therapy drug that encodes growth factors for the stimulation of blood vessel and bone formation. The combination ...
Dec 5, 2016
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Individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome are at an increased risk for a number of cancers, including breast and bone cancer. Li-Fraumeni syndrome is an inherited cancer disorder caused by mutations in the tumor suppressing protein ...
Nov 21, 2016
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Radiotherapy destroys cancer cells using high-energy ionizing radiation to damage DNA and induce cell death. About two million patients per year in the United States - more than 50 percent of all cancer patients—receive ...
Nov 7, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Marijuana may be bad to the bone, a new Scottish study suggests.
Oct 19, 2016
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Abaloparatide, a selective activator of the parathyroid hormone receptor, has recently been shown to reduce fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
Oct 19, 2016
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A molecular signaling pathway identified by an international research team could be the basis of improved treatment for osteoporosis. In their report published in the online journal Nature Communications, the investigators ...
Oct 19, 2016
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Calcium, the main constituent of bone, turns out to play a major role in regulating the cells that orchestrate bone growth, a finding that could affect treatment for conditions caused by too much collagen deposition, such ...
Oct 6, 2016
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Various technologies have been developed to introduce laboratory-grown bone-forming cells into bone defects to promote their repair. However, these have many limitations as the conditions of the cells and their surroundings ...
Oct 6, 2016
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Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with Damian Genetos at UC Davis and Alex Robling at Indiana University School of Medicine, investigated a regulatory element for the gene controlling ...
Oct 4, 2016
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The antidepressant fluoxetine causes bone loss by instructing the brain to send out signals that increase bone breakdown, but a beta-blocker can intercept the signals, a new study in mice has found.
Sep 7, 2016
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