News tagged with target protein


New research opens new pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven have discovered a new target molecule for the development of a treatment against Alzheimer's disease. There is currently no cure for this disease. Many candidate drugs fail because they also ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome-scale study identifies hundreds of potential drug targets for Huntington's disease

Scientists searching for ways to develop treatments for Huntington's disease (HD) just got a roadmap that could dramatically speed their discovery process. Researchers at the Buck Institute have used RNA interference (RNAi) ...

Genetics created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein tug of war points toward better therapies for cardiovascular disease

Two proteins are in a tug of war that determines how much the body makes of superoxide, a highly reactive and potentially destructive product of oxygen that's dramatically elevated in cardiovascular disease, ...

Cardiology created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery advances fight against phleboviruses

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have discovered how a particular type of virus hides and protects its genetic information from the immune system, ...

Medical research created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Recent findings may help to fight melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy

Blocking the action of a particular protein in our skin could improve the treatment of skin cancers, according to a study published in Oncogene yesterday by Philippe Roux, a researcher at the University of Montreal's Instit ...

Cancer created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds diabetes raises levels of proteins linked to Alzheimer's features

Growing evidence suggests that there may be a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, but the physiological mechanisms by which diabetes impacts brain function and cognition are not fully understood. ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold viruses point the way to new cancer therapies

Cold viruses generally get a bad rap—which they've certainly earned—but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies suggest that these viruses might also be a valuable ...

Cancer created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Loss of protective heart failure protein linked to critical limb ischemia

Restoring diminished levels of a protein shown to prevent and reverse heart failure damage could also have therapeutic applications for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), suggests a new preclinical study published ...

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

Putting a 'HEX' on muscle regeneration

A complex genetic regulatory network mediates the regeneration of adult skeletal muscles. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Bro ...

Medical research created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers show Myc protein is cancer's 'volume control'

(Medical Xpress)—A protein called Myc, commonly found at high levels inside cancer cells, fuels the disease by allowing cells to override their in-built self-destruct mechanisms, according to two new studies by US scientists.

Cancer created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common RNA pathway found in ALS and dementia

Two proteins previously found to contribute to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, have divergent roles. But a new study, led by researchers at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, ...

Neuroscience created Sep 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investigational brain cancer vaccine to be tested: Peptide vaccine targets cancer survival protein

(Medical Xpress)—A new clinical research study at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) will test a first-of-its-kind cancer "vaccine" that may prove effective against many forms of solid-tumor cancers. The vaccine, to be ...

Cancer created Sep 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fighting malaria with the help of personal computing power

UCD researchers, Dr Anthony Chubb and PhD student Kevin O'Brien, working with Conway Fellow, Professor Denis Shields in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) are harnessing the donated computational power of personal ...

Medical research created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mathematical modelling to tackle metabolic diseases

Predictive mathematical models of signalling pathways are powerful biological tools that could be used for drug development. Using a similar approach, European scientists developed a computational model for ...

Medical research created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study represents major breakthrough in macular degeneration

University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made an exciting finding in the "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration known as geographic atrophy (GA). GA is an untreatable condition that ...

Medical research created Aug 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast