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Researchers develop new drug delivery system for bladder cancer using nanoparticles

A team of UC Davis scientists has shown in experimental mouse models that a new drug delivery system allows for administration of three times the maximum tolerated dose of a standard drug therapy for advanced bladder cancer, ...

Cancer created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create first mouse model of typhoid fever

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created the first true mouse model of typhoid infection. The development promises to advance the study of typhoid and the creation of new vaccines against the infection, ...

Medical research created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential cure for Chagas disease

A Murdoch University international collaborative project has found a potential cure for the deadly Chagas disease.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Challenging Parkinson's dogma

Scientists may have discovered why the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease is often effective for only a limited period of time. Their research could lead to a better understanding of many brain disorders, from drug ...

Medical research created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune cells of the blood might replace dysfunctional brain cells

Blood-circulating immune cells can take over the essential immune surveillance of the brain, this is shown by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research ...

Medical research created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery sheds light on Alzheimer's mystery

(Medical Xpress)—In 1906, when Alois Alzheimer discovered the neurodegenerative disease that would later be named for him, he saw amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles inside the brain. Several decades later, ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tools for Alzheimer's may aid early diagnosis and treatment

Curtailing the imminent rise in Alzheimer's disease (AD) will require early, accurate diagnostic tests and treatments, and researchers are closer to achieving these two goals. New findings in medical imaging, molecular analysis ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher pieces together AML prognosis puzzle

When patients suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) express high levels of the gene, MN1, an already aggressive leukemia is accelerated and shortens survival time. While that's a known fact, the mechanisms involved ...

Cancer created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stopping the itch—new clues into how to treat eczema

More than 15% of children suffer with eczema, or atopic dermatitis, an inflammatory skin disease that in some cases can be debilitating and disfiguring. Researchers reporting in the October issue of Immunity have discovered a pote ...

Immunology created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Novel mechanisms underlying major childhood neuromuscular disease identified

A study by scientists from the Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) suggests that spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease in infants and children, results ...

Medical research created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Astrocytes as a novel target in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disease that affects 45% of people over 85 years of age. The research teams of Prof. Jin-Moo Lee at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, and Prof. Milos Pekny at Sahlgrenska ...

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Research reveals more about spatial memory problems associated with Alzheimer's

Researchers at Western University have created a mouse model that reproduces some of the chemical changes in the brain that occur with Alzheimer's, shedding new light on this devastating disease. Marco Prado, Vania Prado ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The role of beta cell regeneration in type 2 diabetes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared type 2 diabetes as the epidemic of the 21st century. A study is focusing on understanding the mechanisms underlying insulin resistance and the role of beta-cell ...

Diabetes created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare genetic disorder points to molecules that may play role in schizophrenia

Scientists studying a rare genetic disorder have identified a molecular pathway that may play a role in schizophrenia, according to new research in the October 10 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings may on ...

Genetics created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Inheritance of mitochondrial disease determined when mother is still an embryo

(Medical Xpress)—The risk of a child to inherit mitochondrial diseases - i. e. malfunction in what is usually referred to as the power plants of the cell - is largely decided when the future mother herself is still an embryo. ...

Genetics created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast