Archive: 02/04/2015

Medical expenses: Finding your way with a patient navigator

A medical emergency leaves you with tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid hospital bills. Your health insurance company rejects coverage for an important medical test. An unexpected diagnosis requires you to find three new ...

Apr 2, 2015

Researchers create artificial link between unrelated memories

The ability to learn associations between events is critical for survival, but it has not been clear how different pieces of information stored in memory may be linked together by populations of neurons. In a study published ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Body's cancer defences hijacked to make pancreatic and lung cancers more aggressive

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that a vital self-destruct switch in cells is hijacked - making some pancreatic and non small cell lung cancers more aggressive, according to research published in Cancer Cell ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Study finds new genetic clues to pediatric seizure disorders

Researchers have identified a new genetic mutation at the heart of a severe and potentially deadly seizure disorder found in infants and young children. The finding, which was reported today in the journal American Journal ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Dual therapy's 1-2 punch knocks out drug-resistant lung cancer

Capitalizing on a rare opportunity to thoroughly analyze a tumor from a lung cancer patient who had developed resistance to targeted drug treatment, UC San Francisco scientists identified a biological escape hatch that explains ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Mitochondria are altered in human cell model of Parkinson's disease

Based on research in fruit flies, it has long been suspected that the most common mutation linked to both sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease (PD) wreaks its havoc by altering the function of mitochondria in neurons ...

Apr 2, 2015

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An 'evolutionary relic' of the genome causes cancer

Pseudogenes, a sub-class of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that developed from the genome's 20,000 protein-coding genes but lost the ability to produce proteins, have long been considered nothing more than genomic "junk." Yet ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Researchers produce iPSC model to better understand genetic lung/liver disease

Using patient-derived stem cells known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to study the genetic lung/liver disease called alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, researchers have for the first time created a disease signature ...

Apr 2, 2015

Liberia, Sierra Leone gain in Ebola crisis; Guinea struggles

When will the world's largest and longest Ebola outbreak end? The West African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia both appear to be on steady paths to ending the epidemic. The wild card is Guinea, where Ebola hasn't burned ...

Apr 2, 2015

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Deadly bird flu shows up in South Dakota, 5th Minnesota farm (Update)

A bird flu strain that's deadly to poultry has spread to a second turkey farm in one of the top turkey-producing counties of Minnesota, state and federal officials said Thursday.

Apr 2, 2015

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Archive: 02/04/2015

Medical expenses: Finding your way with a patient navigator

Researchers create artificial link between unrelated memories

Body's cancer defences hijacked to make pancreatic and lung cancers more aggressive

Study finds new genetic clues to pediatric seizure disorders

Dual therapy's 1-2 punch knocks out drug-resistant lung cancer

Mitochondria are altered in human cell model of Parkinson's disease

An 'evolutionary relic' of the genome causes cancer

Researchers produce iPSC model to better understand genetic lung/liver disease

Liberia, Sierra Leone gain in Ebola crisis; Guinea struggles

Deadly bird flu shows up in South Dakota, 5th Minnesota farm (Update)

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