Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Laying siege to beta-amyloid, the key protein in Alzheimer's disease

This is the first time that a method allows scientists to monitor aggregation while simultaneously detect a structural pattern responsible for the toxicity of beta-amyloid aggregation.The researchers state that these studies ...

Medical research

New targets for treating pulmonary hypertension found

Two new potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a deadly disease marked by high blood pressure in the lungs, have been identified by researchers at the University of Illinois at ...

Medical research

Tumor blood vessel protein provides potential therapeutic target

Tumor blood vessels supply oxygen and nutrients to cancer cells and provide access to other organs. While tumor vasculature shares many features with normal vessels, their unique characteristics are potential therapeutic ...

Oncology & Cancer

Cholesterol activates signaling pathway that promotes cancer

Everyone knows that cholesterol, at least the bad kind, can cause heart disease and hardening of the arteries. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago describe a new role for cholesterol in the activation ...

Oncology & Cancer

A possible pathway for inhibiting liver and colon cancer is found

A group of scientists from Spain, the UK and the United States has revealed the structure of a protein complex involved in liver and colon cancers. Both of these types of cancer are of significant social and clinical relevance ...

Neuroscience

Cocaine addiction: Phase-specific biology and treatment?

Current pharmacotherapies for addiction follow the dictum "one size fits all". Medications are prescribed in the same way for all patients, regardless of whether they have just started experimenting with a drug or have an ...

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