Medical research

Going to 'Wars' against cancer and heart disease

In a study conducted by Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), researchers discovered a new gene that controls blood vessel formation. This work presents a possible new drug target ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Will heart medication help treat Alzheimer's disease?

A new study from Örebro University, published in Science Signaling today, shows that heart medication reduces the build-up of plaque in the brain's blood vessels in mice. The question is if this is true also in humans? If ...

Medical research

Scientists capture cell 'crosstalk' during blood vessel development

The blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients throughout the body develop through a complex process of reactions—or crosstalk—between cells that is regulated by cell-specific gene expression. In a recent study published ...

Medical research

Blood vessels sprout under pressure

It is blood pressure that drives the opening of small capillaries during angiogenesis. A team of researchers led by Prof. Holger Gerhardt of the MDC observed the process for the first time and published their findings in ...

Medical research

Control of blood vessel formation

Scientists from Kumamoto University and The University of Tokyo, Japan have elucidated the control of cellular movement during blood vessel formation. Their findings show that cellular motion occurs not in only the direction ...

Oncology & Cancer

Collagen's role in skin cancer

Type VII collagen is an important protein that helps hold the skin together. Patients with a severe skin condition known as recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) have genetic mutations that lead to reductions ...

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