Oncology & Cancer
Hedgehog signaling pathway key in treating osteosarcoma: Study
The strangely named hedgehog pathway that's crucial to bone growth has emerged as a key in the fight to treat the bone cancer osteosarcoma.
Nov 28, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Fat-burning molecule may be promising target for most common childhood brain cancer
Research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center experts revealed a type of RNA, previously considered to be "junk," that may help doctors distinguish and treat a subgroup of patients with medulloblastoma.
Mar 23, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Emerging superbug MRSA in humans found in urban hedgehogs in Finland
For the first time, a highly transmissible strain of the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA currently plaguing hospitals in Northern Europe has been isolated from hedgehogs in Helsinki. The study by Venla Johansson and colleagues ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New approach to improve ovarian cancer treatment
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of cancer treatment that help the immune system's T cells recognize and attack tumors. But these immunotherapy drugs aren't effective against all cancers. In a study published today ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Medical research
Cannabis causes birth defects in susceptible mice
A chemical found in cannabis, a common recreational drug, has now been shown to cause birth defects in mice. Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai show that the psychoactive component of cannabis (THC) ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study suggests sonic hedgehog protein pathway stimulation could help Parkinson's patients
Levodopa, or L-dopa, is considered the most effective treatment for Parkinson's disease today. After a few years of treatment, however, almost all patients develop a debilitating side-effect called L-dopa induced dyskinesia, ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Eating less fat may save your hair
It's well known that obesity is linked to the development of numerous diseases in humans. Heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are extremely common in obese individuals. However, it's not fully clear how body organs ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
An existing drug may change tumor-associated macrophages back to cancer fighters
A form of cell communication called hedgehog signaling is vital for embryonic development in mammals. But aberrantly activated hedgehog signaling in multiple cancer types—including breast cancer—promotes tumor invasion, ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Health
Beware pet 'bearded dragons': CDC says they could carry salmonella
(HealthDay)—What next, 2020?
Oct 2, 2020
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New insights provide hope for new hair growth in adults
We are born with all the hair follicles that we will ever have in our lives, because after birth the skin loses the ability to create new hair follicles. If our skin is severely damaged it cannot form new hair follicles or ...
Mar 18, 2020
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Hedgehog
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand (by introduction). There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (order Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and have changed little over the last 15 million years. Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal, insectivorous way of life.
The name 'hedgehog' came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English 'heyghoge', from 'heyg', 'hegge' = hedge, because it frequents hedgerows, and 'hoge', 'hogge' = hog, from its piglike snout. Other names include 'urchin', 'hedgepig' and 'furze-pig' .
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