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Online support a breath of fresh air

A multi-site pilot project developed by University of Alberta researchers is providing a breath of fresh air for children with asthma and severe allergies by helping them interact with peers online and boosting ...

Health created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hit a 95 mph baseball? Scientists pinpoint how we see it coming

(Medical Xpress)—How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena's 120 mph serves? For ...

Neuroscience created May 08, 2013 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer biorepository speeds clinical trials, drug development, analysis shows

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center say identifying and selecting participants for phase II cancer clinical trials from a centralized warehouse of patient-donated biological data expedites participant accrual, reduces trial ...

Cancer created May 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World Malaria Day: Research into a more efficient treatment for 'vivax malaria'

Whilst investment has been increasing in the past years into new treatments for the potentially fatal "malaria tropica", efficient treatment options are still lacking for "vivax malaria". This is a form of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suppressing protein may stem Alzheimer's disease process

Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered a potential strategy for developing treatments to stem the disease process in Alzheimer's disease. It's based on unclogging removal of ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find ethnicity linked to antibodies

(Medical Xpress)—Cracking the DNA code for a complex region of the human genome has helped 14 North American scientists, including five at Simon Fraser University, chart new territory in immunity research.

Genetics created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Science of genome-sequencing marks 10 years

A decade after completion of the Human Genome Project on April 14, 2003, a top official of the National Institutes of Health surveyed the rarefied view from that mountaintop:

Genetics created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whole genome sequencing finds new mutations to blame for a majority of brain tumor subtype

Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified mutations responsible for more than half of a subtype of childhood brain tumor that takes a high toll on patients. Researchers also found evidence the tumors ...

Genetics created Apr 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ten years on, still much to be learned from human genome map

(HealthDay)—As scientists mark the 10th anniversary Sunday of the completion of the Human Genome Project, they will note how that watershed effort has led to the discovery of the genetic underpinnings of ...

Genetics created Apr 12, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds key to calling back-up help when tumor-fighter p53 goes down

Tumor suppression, the family business of the sibling genes p53, p63 and p73, is undermined from within by the split personalities of p63 and p73, which each produce protein forms that not only block the work of the other ...

Cancer created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anaesthetists' research network to create buzz at national conference

A research network established by a network of training anaesthetists in the South West of England, and which in just nine months has become one of the most successful of its kind in the UK, is set to create a buzz at the ...

Other created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project (Update 4)

President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic ...

Neuroscience created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

RARE-Bestpractices: Researching rare diseases

Clinical research needs to optimise its agenda by taking into consideration both patients' and clinicians' needs and interests. This is the goal of a four-year project funded by the EU's Seventh Framework ...

Other created Apr 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DNA sequencing: Changing the landscape of science and biology

UConn researchers are at the forefront of new discoveries and understanding about the smallest molecules in the body that can have a momentous impact on human health.

Genetics created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wyss Institute awarded DARPA contract to further advance sepsis therapeutic device

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that it was awarded a $9.25 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further ...

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0