Oncology & Cancer
Colorectal cancer: Aspirin found to activate protective genes
LMU researchers have identified a signaling pathway by which aspirin can inhibit colorectal cancer.
Nov 2, 2023
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Genetics
Potential new biomarker for Alzheimer's discovered
Alzheimer's is considered a disease of old age, with most people being diagnosed after 65. But the condition actually begins developing, out of sight, many years before any symptoms emerge. Tiny proteins, known as amyloid-beta ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Medications
Study suggests anti-inflammatory drugs as promising treatments for Alzheimer's disease
A recent study from the lab of the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director Linda Van Eldik, Ph.D., centers around the idea that various anti-inflammatory drugs could be effective treatments for Alzheimer's ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Neuroscience
New blood biomarker can predict if cognitively healthy elderly will develop Alzheimer's disease
Why do some people develop Alzheimer's disease while others don't? And, even more puzzlingly, why do many individuals whose brains are chock-full of toxic amyloid aggregates—a telltale sign of Alzheimer's brain pathology—never ...
May 29, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Deep sleep may mitigate Alzheimer's memory loss, research shows
A deep slumber might help buffer against memory loss for older adults facing a heightened burden of Alzheimer's disease, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests.
May 4, 2023
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Digital twin opens way to effective treatment of inflammatory diseases
Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis have complex disease mechanisms that can differ from patient to patient with the same diagnosis. This means that currently available drugs have little effect on many patients. ...
Feb 28, 2023
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Medical research
Calming the destructive cells of ALS by two independent approaches
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered two ways to preserve diseased upper motor neurons that would normally be destroyed in ALS, based on a study in mice. Upper motor neurons initiate movement, and they degenerate ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Reproducing skeletal muscle pathology of myotonic dystrophy using patient-derived iPS cells
The Hidetoshi Sakurai Laboratory at CiRA has successfully reproduced the pathology of Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) using skeletal muscle cells generated from patient-derived iPS cells and demonstrated their use for quantitative ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Medical research
New study shows cognitively impaired degu is a natural animal model well suited for Alzheimer's research
Led by researchers from the University of California at Irvine, a new study reveals that a long-lived Chilean rodent, called Octodon degus (degu), is a useful and practical model of natural sporadic Alzheimer's disease. The ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Health informatics
Self-teaching AI uses pathology images to find similar cases, diagnose rare diseases
Rare diseases are often difficult to diagnose and predicting the best course of treatment can be challenging for clinicians. Investigators from the Mahmood Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass ...
Oct 10, 2022
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