The body's process for manufacturing fatty acids is regulated by the enzyme FASN. In normal cells, this is not a very active process—except occasionally in the liver and adipose tissue—since most of the fatty acids we ...
Nov 4, 2019
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Neuroscientists at the University of Southampton have made a significant development in understanding how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the brain, discovering a significant period of time where medical intervention ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Tau can quickly spread between neurons but is not immediately harmful, according to research in mouse neurons published in JNeurosci. Intervening during the initial accumulation of tau could potentially halt the progression ...
Oct 28, 2019
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Investigation of biological mechanisms in urothelial tissue, one of the three types of tissue that make up the urinary system, has always been very limited due to the lack of technologies that allow working with stable and ...
Oct 7, 2019
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One of the worst symptoms associated with inflammation or cancer of the pancreas is severe chronic pain. Pancreatic pain is difficult to treat, because many painkillers prove ineffective in pancreatic patients. In a recent ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have found an anti-malarial drug was effective in treating head and neck cancer in mice.
Sep 25, 2019
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Inoculation with an Ebola virus that has mutations in a protein called VP35 does not cause disease and elicits protection in monkeys, researchers show September 17 in the journal Cell Reports. The findings suggest that the ...
Sep 17, 2019
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Using computational tools to investigate gene transcription networks in large collections of brain tissues, a scientific team has identified a gene that acts as a master regulator of schizophrenia during early human brain ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Melatonin could be a novel drug for preventing bone loss to astronauts during space flight. Here we used goldfish scales as a bone model of coexisting osteoclasts and osteoblasts and demonstrated that melatonin synthesis ...
Sep 3, 2019
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In cystic fibrosis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a much-feared pathogen. The bacterium easily colonizes the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, leading to chronic infections that are almost impossible to eradicate and are ...
Aug 21, 2019
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