Psychology & Psychiatry

Scientists gain new understanding of how brain cells talk

Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as anxiety, and memory ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study reveals new opportunities to develop cancer treatments

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have uncovered new potential therapeutic targets for cancer and new insights into existing cancer drug targets, expanding the breadth of possibilities ...

Biomedical technology

Artificial organs now produced more easily

A Korean research group has developed a technology that allows for the differentiation of stem cells into desired cell types, such as vascular mural cells or osteoblasts, without special pretreatment. This technology is expected ...

Diabetes

3D optical imaging of the human pancreas in disease

Max Hahn's doctoral thesis characterizes insulin producing β-cell dynamics of streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mice. Novel approaches were also developed that define human pancreatic structure-function relationships at ...

Oncology & Cancer

Novel discovery challenges a current kidney cancer paradigm

Newly published research has reversed our understanding of an aspect of kidney tumor growth. Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) discovered that two key proteins have opposite ...

Medical research

Researchers spot mutations that crop up in normal cells as we age

Cell division is not perfect. As we get older, mutations often appear in genes in normal cells. Most of these mutated cells and their progeny—called "somatic clones"—have no effect on our health, but a tiny fraction can ...

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