The most common form of liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD), contributes to half a million cirrhosis deaths worldwide annually. Odds of survival are very low and treatment options are limited. Two manifestations ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have demonstrated for the first time that in COVID-19 patients an immune mechanism known as the inflammasome participates in activation of the inflammatory process ...
Dec 1, 2020
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A genetic variation in some people may be associated with cognitive decline that can't be explained by deposits of two key proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease, amyloid β and tau, according to a study published in ...
Sep 16, 2020
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have confirmed a protein as an oncogene responsible for the most common and lethal form of pancreatic cancer known as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). ...
Sep 4, 2019
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New detail about what happens when a key cellular process is impaired in cells that are vital for a healthy gut have been uncovered by a wide-ranging analysis.
Feb 28, 2019
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Demonstrating the potential of precision health, a team led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine has matched existing drugs to errant proteins expressed by patients with a rare eye disease.
Dec 21, 2017
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Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have described the molecular structure of a key tumour suppressor protein and provided insights into its role in cells.
Jan 11, 2017
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Mitochondria are the engines that drive cellular life, but these complex machines are vulnerable to a wide range of breakdowns, and hundreds of their component parts remain a functional mystery.
Aug 4, 2016
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A group of researchers at Osaka University in cooperation with the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), succeeded in elucidating the secondary structure of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson's disease ...
Jan 12, 2016
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An exhaustive analysis has been conducted of more than 12,000 distinct proteins present in an often aggressive and difficult to treat form of breast cancer, called triple-negative breast cancer.
Apr 16, 2015
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