Medical research

Potential treatment target for drug-resistant epilepsy identified

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and colleagues have identified a small molecule that may help treat people with epilepsy whose condition has become resistant to the benzodiazepine drugs usually used in ...

Oncology & Cancer

A new approach to treating leukemia

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel have revealed a novel treatment approach in the fight against hematologic cancers.  The new method, developed by Prof. Mira Barda-Saad and her research team from the Mina and ...

Genetics

Potential entry points for Huntington's disease drug discovery

Huntington's disease (HD) is one of the four major neurodegenerative diseases that have been most extensively studied. The clinical symptoms include uncontrolled dancing-mimicking behavior (chorea), as well as cognitive deficiency ...

Oncology & Cancer

Scientists alter 3-D genome using 'small molecules'

Researchers have discovered that the spatial organization of the genome can be altered using small molecule compounds which are considered as promising anti-cancer drugs. This work opens up the prospect of developing a new ...