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Do salamanders hold the solution to regeneration?

Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have ...

Medical research created May 20, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain

Thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on rocks in the Swiss Alps, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute in France have been the first to identify how alcohol might ...

Medical research created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Unusual suspect: Scientists find 'second fiddle' protein's role in Type 2 diabetes

A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that a protein long believed to have a minor role in type 2 diabetes is, in fact, a central player in the development of the condition that affects nearly ...

Diabetes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers excel in predicting cancer drug sensitivity

Researchers from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM have developed a triumphant solution for predicting responses of breast cancer cells to a set of cancer ...

Cancer created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Losing protein helps heart recover, scientists say

When a person has a heart attack, portions of the heart muscle die in the next several days or even weeks if deprived of oxygen for long enough. The recovering heart slowly remodels itself, even fostering the growth of new ...

Cardiology created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bloodstream scavenger inhibits clotting without increased bleeding

A compound that mops up debris of damaged cells from the bloodstream may be the first in a new class of drugs designed to address one of medicine's most difficult challenges -- stopping the formation of blood clots without ...

Medical research created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study results: Adult stem cells from bone marrow

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Maryland report promising results from using adult stem cells from bone marrow in mice to help create tissue cells of other organs, such as the heart, brain and pancreas ...

Medical research created Jul 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nonsurgical method to measure brain pressure shows promise

(HealthDay) -- A new nonsurgical method for monitoring brain pressure might help improve treatment of head injury patients, according to a new study.

Medical research created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Explaining heart failure as a cause of diabetes

Either heart failure or diabetes alone is bad enough, but oftentimes the two conditions seem to go together. Now, researchers reporting in the January Cell Metabolism appear to have found the culprit that leads from heart ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UCF patented on induced pluripotent stem cells, iPS cells

A process that prompts a single gene to generate millions of supercharged stem cells, which can then turn into any kind of cell a body needs to repair itself, has been patented at the University of Central ...

Medical research created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using bone marrow to protect the brain

The ability to produce neuroprotectors, proteins that protect the human brain against neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and ALS, is the holy grail of brain research. A technology developed at Tel Aviv University ...

Medical research created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast