Autoimmune response drives vision loss in glaucoma
Boston, Mass. -- A research team from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown that immune cells in the eye...
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Study suggests glaucoma may be an autoimmune disease
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Glaucoma, a disease that afflicts nearly 70 million people worldwide, is something of a mystery despite its prevalence. Little is known about...
More than 40 percent of women with asthma may develop COPD, but risk may be reduced
Credit: ATS Aug.10, 2018--More than 4 in 10 women with asthma may go on to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study...
Late effects of treatment hinder independence of adult survivors of childhood brain tumors
Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital In the first study of its kind, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that...
Wearable ‘microbrewery’ saves human body from radiation damage
Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The same way that yeast yields beer and bread can help hospital lab workers better track their...
New technology improves CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in mosquitoes, other species
Credit: Rasgon laboratory, Penn State A technology designed to improve CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in mosquitoes and other arthropods succeeds with a high degree of efficiency,...
Scientists discover how to protect yeast from damage in biofuel production
Credit: Trey Sato MADISON, Wis. -- Some chemicals used to speed up the breakdown of plants for production of biofuels like ethanol are poison to...
Kidney cancer’s developmental source revealed
In the first experiment of its kind, scientists have revealed the precise identity of cancer cells of the most common childhood and adult kidney cancers....
RCSI and Bayer enter research collaboration to improve hemophilia treatment
Credit: Julien Behal Photography Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018: RCSI and Bayer have today announced a research collaboration that aims to improve treatments for people with...
Tbx6 revealed as crucial to heart and skeleton formation from stem cells
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Many studies have attempted to identify a single transcription factor that can induce formation of mesoderm, an early...
Bribing bacteria to play nicely is good for everyone
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(Aug. 9, 2018) Antibiotic use is driving an epidemic of antibiotic resistance, as more susceptible bacteria are killed but more resilient...
SERSitive: New substrates make it possible to routinely detect one molecule in a million
Credit: IPC PAS SERS, an extremely sensitive laboratory method of analysing chemical composition, is set to become widespread decades after its invention. The main obstacle...
Americans may have outgrown traditional advice of having a varied diet
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (August 9, 2018) - When it comes to diet in the Western world of overconsumption where cheap convenience food rules, the...
Genetic mutation underlying severe childhood brain disorder identified
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Ashleigh Schaffer, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a...
Nuclear gatekeeper could block undruggable prostate cancer targets
(PHILADELPHIA) - Certain molecular drivers of cancer growth are "undruggable" - it's been nearly impossible to develop chemicals that would block their action and prevent...
