Certain antibodies against a sugar are associated with malaria protection
Credit: Adapted from Aguilar R et al. 2018 Certain type of antibodies against α-Gal- a carbohydrate expressed by many organisms including the malaria parasite- could...
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Gene-editing technique cures genetic disorder in utero
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University have for the first time used a gene editing technique to successfully cure a genetic condition in...
Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds
Credit: Jolygon PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A new study shows that updating visual perceptual skills -- which humans rely on to recognize what they see, including potential...
Human clinical trial reveals verapamil as an effective type 1 diabetes therapy
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center have discovered a safe and effective novel therapy to...
Can we get the immune system to tolerate organ transplants?
Credit: Fawn Gracey, Boston Children's Hospital Currently, people receiving organ transplants must take drugs to suppress the inflammatory immune response that leads to rejection. Even...
Brain cancer: Typical mutation in cancer cells stifles immune response
The exchange of a single amino acid building block in a metabolic enzyme can lead to cancer. In addition, it can impair the immune system,...
Nanoparticles give immune cells a boost
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Programming the body's immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia....
Leukemia researchers discover way to predict healthy people at risk for developing AML
(TORONTO, Canada, July 9, 2018) - An international team of leukemia scientists has discovered how to predict healthy individuals at risk of developing acute myeloid...
Evolution of melanoma reveals opportunities for intervention
UC San Francisco researchers have identified the sequence of genetic changes that transform benign moles into malignant melanoma in a large cohort of human skin...
Roots of leukemia reveal possibility of predicting people at risk
Scientists have discovered that it is possible to identify people at high risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) years before diagnosis. The researchers from...
Penn study finds mutation driving deadlier brain tumors and potential therapy to stop it
PHILADELPHIA - A poorly understood mutation in the brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) is now being implicated for the first time as the driver of rare...
Kissing bugs kiss their hiding spots goodbye, thanks to tiny radio transmitters
Credit: Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D., Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology Annapolis, MD; July 9, 2018--With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting...
Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. These...
How does Parkinson’s disease develop? Study raises doubts on theory of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The exact causes of this neurodegenerative...
