Archive: 02/07/2019

The activity of disease allele-selective zinc finger proteins in preclinical models of Huntington's disease

Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc., a genomic medicine company, today announced the publication of a manuscript describing the activity of allele-selective zinc finger protein transcription-factors (ZFP-TFs) in preclinical models ...

Jul 2, 2019

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Using facts to promote cancer prevention on social media is more effective than personal stories

When it comes to cancer prevention messaging, clear information from trusted organizations has greater reach on social media than personal accounts of patients, new University of California, Davis, research suggests.

Jul 2, 2019

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Relieving two headaches with one process

With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have found a way to relieve two headaches at once.

Jul 2, 2019

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B cells off the rails early in lupus

New research on the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) provides hints to the origins of the puzzling disorder. The results were published Monday in Nature Immunology.

Jul 2, 2019

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More HPV vaccinations could prevent cancer in 1,300 Californians

Based on a 2017 rate of vaccination against HPV among a group of California 20-year-olds, researchers estimate that this group is at risk for an excess of 1,352 cases of cancer that could be prevented with a 99.5 percent ...

Jul 2, 2019

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Scientists shrink stroke damage in mice by calming immune cells outside brain

Instead of trying to fix stroke-damaged nerve cells, Stanford scientists took aim at a set of first-responder immune cells that live outside the brain but rush to the site of a stroke. It worked.

Jul 2, 2019

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French doctors to end life support in right-to-die case

French doctors are set to begin removing life support from paralysed road accident victim Vincent Lambert on Tuesday, in what could be the final act in a hugely controversial right-to-die case that has drawn in Pope Francis.

Jul 2, 2019

Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research

The neuroimaging community has made significant strides toward collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which, until the past decade, had seemed out of reach. Between initiatives focused on the aggregation and open sharing ...

Jul 2, 2019

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Discovery of pancreatic neuroendocrine subtypes could help predict likelihood of recurrence

Researchers have discovered two distinct subtypes of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors—known as pNETs—that have dramatically different risks of recurrence following surgical treatment [or surgery]. The finding could yield ...

Jul 2, 2019

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Cardiac genetic mutation may not always predict heart disease

More than 750,000 people in the United States have dilated cardiomyopathy, a potentially life-threatening condition in which the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, enlarges and grows increasingly weak. Research ...

Jul 2, 2019

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