A study conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions reveals the molecular events leading to osteogenesis imperfecta type V, a form of brittle bone disease caused by a mutation in ...
Jun 26, 2024
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VEXAS syndrome is a rare, adult-onset, life-threatening autoinflammatory disease caused by a genetic mutation. The pathophysiology is still unknown, but new work presented at the 2024 congress of EULAR—The European Alliance ...
Jun 12, 2024
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When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit independence and reduce life expectancy. Multiple ...
Jun 6, 2024
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Together with researchers from University of Oxford, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that a subclass of stem cells that are dedicated to the production of platelets replenish those platelets through ...
Jun 3, 2024
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A research team led by CiRA Professor Junya Toguchida in collaboration with Assistant Professor Yonghui Jin and graduated student Liping Sun at the Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, has identified ...
Mar 18, 2024
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In a collaborative study, researchers from Kyushu University and Harvard Medical School have identified proteins that can turn or "reprogram" fibroblasts—the most commonly found cells in skin and connective tissue—into ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Alterations in the chemical modifications that control gene expression, known as epigenetics, have proven to be one of the most characteristic properties of all human tumors. This realization has generated the development ...
Feb 5, 2024
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For 30 years, Cheryl Rosenfeld has studied how biological information gets transferred from mothers to babies during pregnancy. The research is personal for Rosenfeld, whose niece, Sara, was exposed to sedative drugs in utero. ...
Dec 5, 2023
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For the first time, researchers have shown it is possible to repair damaged lung tissue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the patients' own lung cells.
Sep 12, 2023
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In the ongoing search for a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a burgeoning branch of medicine is bringing new hope. Stem cell therapies are already being used to treat various cancers and disorders of the blood and immune system. ...
Aug 9, 2023
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