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Botanical compound could prove crucial to healing influenza

Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered that abscisic acid has anti-inflammatory effects in the lungs ...

Medical research created Jul 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two proteins offer a 'clearer' way to treat Huntington's disease

In a paper published in the July 11 online issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified two key regulatory proteins critic ...

Neuroscience created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Strong communication between brain and muscle requires both having the protein LRP4

Communication between the brain and muscle must be strong for us to eat, breathe or walk. Now scientists have found that a protein known to be on the surface of muscle cells must be present in both tissues ...

Neuroscience created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene link to multiple sclerosis

(Medical Xpress) -- The biological role of a gene variant implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been determined by researchers at Oxford University.

Genetics created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

TLR1 protein drives immune response to certain food-borne illness in mice

A naturally occurring protein called TLR1 plays a critical role in protecting the body from illnesses caused by eating undercooked pork or drinking contaminated water, according to new research from the University of Southern ...

Medical research created Jul 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop mouse model that could lead to new therapies for liver cancer

Researchers have created the first mouse model demonstrating the role of a cancer promoting gene, Astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1), in hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver cancer. The mouse model represents a critical step ...

Cancer created Jul 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover new vaccine candidate for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered a new vaccine candidate for the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa taking advantage of a new mechanism of immunity.

Medical research created Jul 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers prevent mice from developing diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Swedish research group headed at Karolinska Institutet has been able to prevent onset of Type 1 diabetes in mice that are genetically susceptible to the disease. Through injection of specifically ...

Diabetes created Jun 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers review muscular dystrophy therapies

Leading muscular dystrophy researcher Dean Burkin, of the University of Nevada School of Medicine summarizes the impact of a new protein therapeutic, MG53, for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

Medical research created Jun 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enzyme offers new therapeutic target for cancer drugs

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a new signal transduction pathway specifically devoted to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing, a process that allows a single ...

Cancer created Jun 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Proposed drug may reverse Huntington's disease symptoms

With a single drug treatment, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine can silence the mutated gene responsible for Huntington's ...

Neuroscience created Jun 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beating hearts are finally still with 4D PET image reconstruction

A development in 4D image reconstruction compensates for blurring caused by the beating of the heart, say researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 59th Annual Meeting. The new method provides sharper-than-ever images ...

Medical research created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PET predicts outcome of therapy for colorectal cancer patients

A study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2012 Annual Meeting reveals how molecular imaging biomarkers can be used to approximate howan experimental radiochemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer will work. ...

Cancer created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigational diabetes drug may have fewer side effects

Drugs for type 2 diabetes can contribute to weight gain, bone fractures and cardiovascular problems, but in mice, an investigational drug appears to improve insulin sensitivity without those troublesome side ...

Medical research created Jun 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Professor links gene mutations with heart disease precursors

(Medical Xpress) -- It may be easier in the future to test and potentially provide early treatment for the one in 500 people affected by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Cardiology created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast