Medications
Study shows asthma drug salbutamol's potential as Alzheimer's treatment
A new study reveals that the common asthma drug salbutamol may offer potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Jul 1, 2020
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Medical research
Studying the crown of the virus behind COVID-19 to find its weak point
New research suggests targeting the spike proteins could provide an effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2(COVID-19) and provide valuable structural data for teams working to develop vaccines against it.
Jun 26, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity
Cancer cells are a wily adversary. One reason the disease outfoxes many potential treatments is because of the diversity of the cancer cell population. Researchers have found this population difficult to characterize and ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How our unconscious visual biases change the way we perceive objects
As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But while we can appreciate that others might hold different opinions of objects we see, not many people know that factors beyond our control can influence how ...
Jan 15, 2019
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Diabetes
Study shows skin autofluorescence can predict type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and death
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that non-invasive measurement of skin autofluorescence (SAF) can predict future risk of type 2 diabetes, ...
Nov 21, 2018
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Medications
A new approach for finding Alzheimer's treatments
Considering what little progress has been made finding drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, Maikel Rheinstädter decided to come at the problem from a totally different angle—perhaps the solution lay not with the peptide ...
Sep 11, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Stress hormone is key factor in failure of immune system to prevent leukemia
The human stress hormone cortisol has been identified by scientists at the University of Kent as a key factor when the immune system fails to prevent leukemia taking hold.
Aug 14, 2018
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Medical research
Building bones with a 3-D printer
Strand by strand, and layer by layer, Daniel Chen's research team is inching closer to repairing and rebuilding bones with the use of 3-D printing technology.
Jul 12, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's breakthrough: Brain metals that may drive disease progression revealed
Alzheimer's disease could be better treated, thanks to a breakthrough discovery of the properties of the metals in the brain involved in the progression of the neurodegenerative condition, by an international research collaboration ...
Jun 21, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Targeting the mechanisms that allow leukaemia to thrive
Two recent studies conducted at the Circular Dichroism beamline (B23) at Diamond Light Source have shed light on the way in which a subtype of leukaemia can proliferate in the body. The studies published in OncoImmunology ...
Apr 24, 2018
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