Archive: 26/06/2018

Drug treatment has profound effect on cerebral malaria in mice

A potentially new way of treating cerebral malaria has been discovered by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, in a study using mice.

Jun 26, 2018

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Expert discusses the impact and potential of cancer prevention

Great progress has already been made in reducing the cancer death toll through prevention, according to a new article in the June 25 issue of Genes and Development by MIT Professor Emerita Nancy Hopkins and colleagues from ...

Jun 26, 2018

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Mindfulness helps injured athletes improve pain tolerance and awareness

A new study of injured athletes carried out by the University of Kent found they can benefit from using mindfulness as part of the sport rehabilitation process to improve their pain tolerance and awareness.

Jun 26, 2018

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Discovery of a major technical error will improve epigenetics research

An error in one of the most widely used methods in epigenetics, DIP-seq, can cause misleading results, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have shown. This may have major significance in the research field, where ...

Jun 26, 2018

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Researchers report biomedical applications of cuttlefish bone

A group of researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has developed several innovative applications of cuttlebone, natural biologically active material possessing bone and wound healing properties. The products ...

Jun 26, 2018

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Fluorescent molecules reveal how cancer cells are inhibited

A team of researchers at Lund University in Sweden has developed a fluorescent variant of a molecule that inhibits cancer stem cells. Capturing images of the molecule entering a cell has enabled the researchers, using cell-biological ...

Jun 26, 2018

Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy does not appear to increase symptoms of ADHD

Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy may not be associated with an increased risk of attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in children aged 3 to 10 years. This was the conclusion of a new study led by the Barcelona ...

Jun 26, 2018

T-cell leukaemia: Cancer cells take advantage of 'survival protein'

The overproduction of the BCL-2 protein is due to a defect in the ribosome, the protein factory of the cell. This defect is found in 10% of the pediatric patients with T-cell leukaemia.

Jun 26, 2018