New research: Financial disclosure lacking in publication of clinical trials
A substantial proportion of pharmaceutical industry payments to authors of oncology clinical trials published in major scientific journals are not ...
Month: August 2018
Presynapses come in a packet
Credit: Dmytro Puchkov, FMP Synapses are the interfaces for information exchange between neurons. Teams of scientists working with Professor Dr. ...
Mayo Clinic researchers identify a potential new approach to treat HER2 positive breast cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an important new pathway by which HER2 positive breast cancers grow ...
Neville Sanjana receives Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s Young Investigator Award
Credit: New York Genome Center/Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NEW YORK, NY (August 30, 2018) -- Neville Sanjana, PhD, Core ...
Discovery of long-lived macrophages in the intestine
Credit: © TARGID - KU Leuven Macrophages are specialised immune cells that destroy bacteria and other harmful organisms. KU Leuven ...
Study by blood doctors a breakthrough for hemophiliacs
Credit: Wits University Patients with haemophilia bleed spontaneously or following trauma. The most common sites of bleeding are into joints, ...
Insulin gives an extra boost to the immune system
(Toronto - August 30, 2018) - The role of insulin as a boost to the immune system to improve its ...
In test with rats, cannabidiol showed sustained effects against depression for seven days
Commercial antidepressants typically take two to four weeks to have a significant effect on a depressed patient. They are also ...
The use of psychoactive substances and illegal drugs in the Albanian society
The article of Matua et al, published recently in Current Drug Abuse Reviews, focuses on an issue of major interest ...
Obstructive sleep apnea linked with higher risk of gout
New research reveals that people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have a higher risk of developing gout, even beyond the ...
Stigmatizing views and myths about psoriasis are pervasive in the United States
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The stigma associated with the autoimmune disease psoriasis may lead people to avoid patients who ...
Study provides an early recipe for rewiring spinal cords
Credit: Sofroniew lab For many years, researchers have thought that the scar that forms after a spinal cord injury actively ...
Heteractis magnifica sea anemones can help fight the Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Neville Wootton Heteractis magnifica sea anemones contain neuroprotective peptides that slow down the inflammation process and the deterioration of ...
Insilico to present on human aging biomarker development at the BSRA Scientific Meeting
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, the 30th of September, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the ...
New method for hydroboration of alkynes: Radicals induce unusual selectivity
Credit: Kanazawa University Organoboron compounds have been widely used to create new organic molecules since Prof. Suzuki, a 2010 Nobel ...
Regulatory and effector B cells control scleroderma
Credit: Kanazawa University Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc, also known as scleroderma), a connective tissue disorder of autoimmune etiology, is characterized ...
Using telemedicine to increase life expectancy
Telemedical interventional management reduces hospitalisations and prolongs the life of patients with heart failure. Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin ...
Great minds may think alike, but all minds look alike
The brain is a complex network containing many billions of neurons. Each neuron is connected to thousands of others via ...
Model based on liquid biopsies may predict time to progression in colorectal cancer
Bottom Line: An evolutionary model utilizing serial blood samples from patients with advanced colorectal cancer treated with anti-EGFR therapies in ...
Access to 3D printing is changing the work in research labs
Credit: McMaster University A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for ...
