Oncology & Cancer
What makes some cancers more deadly?
A Flinders University researcher is searching for answers as to why some leukaemia sufferers live a normal lifespan while others succumb to the disease within months.
Apr 23, 2014
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Medical research
Mouse mutant opens new path for birth defect research
(Medical Xpress)—According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 3 of every 100 babies in the U.S. are born with a birth defect. Among boys, one of the most common defects is the displacement of the urethral opening ...
Jan 16, 2013
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Genetics
New technique for studying cancer mutations may yield approaches for future therapies
Cancer and many other diseases are based on genetic defects. The body can often compensate for the defect of one gene; it is only the combination of several genetic errors that leads to the clinical picture. The 3Cs multiplex ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists ID key fetal cells vulnerable to Zika
(HealthDay)—The devastating mosquito-borne Zika virus can infect cells that play a role in skull development, a new study finds.
Sep 29, 2016
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Medical research
Why some developing hearts can't tell left from right
When a developing heart can't tell left from right, it can take a team of scientists from a host of disciplines to explain why. Yale pediatricians, geneticists, cell biologists, and imaging experts have identified a surprising ...
Sep 2, 2016
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Medications
Antifungal drug improves key cystic fibrosis biomarkers in clinical study
A drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, a clinical study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study sheds light on a mitochondrial disease
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have figured out how mutations in a gene called FBXL4 can lead to an excess of mitophagy—the disposal of mitochondria, the 'power stations' within nearly all human cells.
May 4, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene 'driver' of Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia in up to one-third of patients identified
In nearly one-third of patients with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia, a specific genetic mutation switches on the disease, and a new drug that blocks the defective gene can arrest the disease in animal models, researchers ...
Dec 9, 2013
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Neuroscience
Attractants prevent nerve cell migration
A vision is to implant nerve precursor cells in the diseased brains of patients with Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, whereby these cells are to assume the function of the cells that have died off. However, the implanted ...
Nov 21, 2013
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Surgery
Racial/ethnic differences in outcomes following subarachnoid hemorrhage
University of Toronto researchers examined data on patients who had been hospitalized in the United States for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and found racial/ethnic differences in the rates of inpatient mortality and hospital ...
Sep 10, 2013
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