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App lets amputees program their own bionic hands

Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app instead. Koger this week demonstrated the i-limb ultra revolution, ...

Other created May 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Autoimmune disease—retraining white blood cells

Symptoms of an autoimmune disease disappeared after a team of scientists retrained the white blood cells. This method is extremely promising for treating diseases such as type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Immunology created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers report islet cell advancement increases impact on transplantation

A study published in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (21:8), now freely available on-line, reports that a team of researchers in South Korea have successfully engineered islet cell clusters (ICCs) that will improv ...

Medical research created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Experimental compound improves memory in mice with multiple sclerosis

Johns Hopkins researchers report the successful use of a form of MRI to identify what appears to be a key biochemical marker for cognitive impairment in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In follow-up experiments ...

Neuroscience created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Massage therapy may enhance immunity in preterm infants

(HealthDay)—For stable, preterm infants, daily massage therapy (MT) is positively associated with higher natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity and weight gain, according to a study published online Nov. ...

Pediatrics created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parasitologist espouses using parasitic worms for treatment of autoimmune diseases

(Medical Xpress)—Doctor Joel Weinstock, a parasitologist at Tufts Medical Center in a commentary piece published in the journal Nature, describes work that he and colleagues have been involved in that focuses on studyi ...

Immunology created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Research sheds light on important role of autophagy, or self-eating cells, in developing new anti-inflammatory therapies

Research just carried out in the Immunology Research Centre, led by Dr James Harris, based in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, shows that the process of autophagy  regulates the production ...

Medical research created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computational intelligence opens up new avenues in Alzheimer's research

Researchers from the Computational Intelligence Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática have used machine learning and data mining techniques to compare gene expresssion ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Choice of psoriasis treatment affects CVD event rates

(HealthDay)—Compared with other anti-psoriatic therapies, systemic anti-inflammatory treatment of patients with severe psoriasis with biologic agents or methotrexate is associated with a lower combined ...

Immunology created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In lab, drug-on-the-cob fights rare disease

Biologists in Canada have made a medical enzyme using genetically-engineered corn, a feat that could one day slash the cost of treating a life-threatening inherited disease, a journal reported on Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Post-menopausal women with diabetes at greater risk of breast cancer

(Medical Xpress)—Women with type II diabetes are nearly 30 per cent more likely to get breast cancer, according to results of a comprehensive review published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Frida ...

Cancer created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic clues to causes of primary biliary cirrhosis

Researchers have newly identified three genetic regions associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the most common autoimmune liver disease, increasing the number of known regions associated with the ...

Genetics created Sep 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Short-term intestinal parasite infection triggers specific cytokines that can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Short-term infection with intestinal worms may provide long-term protection against type I diabetes (TID), suggests a study conducted by William Gause, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Medicine ...

Immunology created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Antibodies reverse type 1 diabetes in new immunotherapy study

Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have used injections of antibodies to rapidly reverse the onset of Type I diabetes in mice genetically bred to develop the disease. Moreover, ...

Diabetes created Jul 05, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Both innate and adaptive immune responses are critical to the control of influenza

Both innate and adaptive immune responses play an important role in controlling influenza virus infection, according to a study, published in the Open Access journal PLoS Computational Biology, by researchers from Oaklan ...

Medical research created Jun 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0