Researchers supply major results for understanding the thalamus, the 'relay center' of the brain
The thalamus is the central translator in the brain: Specialized nerve cells (neurons) receive information from the sensory organs, process it, and transmit it deep into the brain. Researchers from the Institute ...
Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Jamb and Jamc are essential proteins for the fusion of muscle cells: study
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered two proteins that are essential for the fusion of muscle cells to build muscle fibres. Their discovery might help us better understand and treat illnesses ...
Medical research
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Characterizing a toxic offender
The brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease contain protein aggregates called plaques and tangles, which interfere with normal communication between nerve cells and cause progressive learning and memory ...
Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Recipient doing well after first artificial windpipe graft
The word's first artificial windpipe transplant has been such a success that a second operation has been carried out and a third is being planned, The Lancet reported on Thursday.
Other
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Poor recycling of BACE1 enzyme could promote Alzheimer's disease
Sluggish recycling of a protein-slicing enzyme could promote Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published online on November 21 in The Journal of Cell Biology.
Medical research
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Study finds clue to birth defects in babies of mothers with diabetes
In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the ri ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Scientists uncover gene associated with blood cancers
A genomic study of chronic blood cancer - a precursor to leukaemia - has discovered gene mutations that could enable diagnosis using only a blood test, avoiding the need for an invasive and painful bone marrow biopsy.
Cancer
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's brains found to have lower levels of key protein
Researchers have found that a protein variation linked by some genetic studies to Alzheimer's disease is consistently present in the brains of people with Alzheimer's. In further biochemical and cell culture investigations, ...
Medical research
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Slim down by targeting the hormone uroguanylin
The number of people who are obese and suffer one or more of its associated health problems (including type 2 diabetes) is escalating dramatically. Researchers are seeking to identify new targets for therapeutics that could ...
Medical research
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Brain tumors found to have a two-tier system
Ependymomas are the second most frequent type of malignant brain tumor in children. Ependymoma develops from precursor cells of the tissue that lines the hollow cavities of the brain. Therapy results of ependymoma vary immensely: ...
Cancer
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Road block as a new strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's
Blocking a transport pathway through the brain cells offers new prospects to prevent the development of Alzheimer's. Wim Annaert and colleagues of VIB and K.U. Leuven discovered that two main agents involved in the inception ...
Medical research
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Researchers identify how a gene linked to both Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes works
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified how a gene for a protein that can cause Type 2 diabetes, also possibly kills nerve cells in the brain, thereby contributing to Alzheimer's disease.
Medical research
Jul 18, 2011 |
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New breast cancer model of mutant PI3K recapitulates features of human breast cancer
Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have shown that a mutation in the lipid kinase PI3K, which occurs in about 30% of human breast cancers, itself evokes different forms ...
Cancer
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Cellular origin of deadly brain cancer is identified
Using a mouse genetic system co-developed by researchers at the University of Oregon and Stanford University, a research team led by UO biologist Hui Zong has isolated the cellular origin for malignant glioma, a deadly human ...
Cancer
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Weight loss after gastric bypass surgery reduces expression of Alzheimer's genes
Obesity is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but weight loss due to bariatric surgery may reduce the risk of this common dementia, a new study suggests. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's ...
Medical research
Jun 06, 2011 |
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