A first-of-its-kind study has identified overactive inflammation and loss of critical protection mechanisms in the brain as potential contributors to suicide risk.
Nov 14, 2023
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UCLA researchers have described a previously unknown step in the complex process by which dietary cholesterol is processed in the intestines before being released into the bloodstream—potentially revealing a new pathway ...
Nov 9, 2023
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, along with an international team of researchers, are shedding new light on the causes of type 2 diabetes. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. About 20% to 25% of cancers involve mutations in a complex of molecules called SWI/SNF. Yet drugs designed to block SWI/SNF activity haven't always worked as expected. Researchers ...
Nov 3, 2023
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A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has linked the mutation that causes Huntington's disease to developmental deficits in the brain's oligodendrocyte cells that are caused by changes in metabolism. ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Glioblastoma, the most common cancerous brain tumor in adults, is an aggressive disease—patients survive an average of just 15 months once they are diagnosed. Despite more than two decades of research on the causes and ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have gained unprecedented new insight into the key properties of an antibody needed to fight off cancer.
Jul 8, 2022
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Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that has discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and multiple ...
Oct 24, 2014
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When we're born, our brains aren't very organized. Every brain cell talks to lots of other nearby cells, sending and receiving signals across connections called synapses.
Sep 20, 2013
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Building on research published eight years ago in the journal Chemistry and Biology, Kenneth S. Kosik, Harriman Professor in Neuroscience and co-director of the Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) at UC Santa Barbara, and ...
Jun 26, 2013
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