A large screening programme has identified several genes associated with age-related conditions including hearing loss, retinal degeneration and osteoarthritis. The animal study, published in Nature Communications, may lead ...
Aug 18, 2016
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New research from the University of Dundee, and funded by Arthritis Research UK and the MRC, has shown that targeting a specific group of enzymes could be a viable strategy for treating autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis ...
Aug 12, 2016
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Scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and University College London have discovered an essential feature of the HIV virus that it uses to infect cells whilst avoiding ...
Aug 10, 2016
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The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, based at the University of Glasgow, today launches a free, interactive websiteopens in new window designed to explain complex health research.
Aug 8, 2016
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Researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have identified the cells responsible for a form of leukaemia that can develop while a baby is in the womb. ...
Jul 8, 2016
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) today published, for the first time, details of transfers of value – payments or benefits in kind – made to individual doctors, nurses and pharmacists, as ...
Jul 8, 2016
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A new study, published today in the journal eLife, has identified a protein that if targeted could help to prevent the spread of the most common and deadly form of brain tumours - glioblastomas.
Jul 7, 2016
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In the largest genomic analysis of puberty timing in men, new research conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge and 23andMe shows that the timing of puberty in males and females is influenced by many of the ...
Nov 9, 2015
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The functions of around 150 genes have been discovered by scientists across Europe in a major initiative to try to understand the part they play in disease and biology.
Jul 28, 2015
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Scientists have for the first time grown a complex, fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal by transplanting cells that were originally created in a laboratory. The advance could in future aid the development ...
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