Genes responsible for severe congenital heart disease identified by…
Credit: University of Pittsburgh/Nature Genetics PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2017 – The first known identification of two genes responsible for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a...
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In Huntington’s disease, traffic jams in the cell’s control center kill brain…
Credit: Credit: Courtesy of Cell Press, Neuron April 5, 2017 Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence...
Scientists ID human protein essential for human cytomegalovirus…
Credit: Lin Y-T, et al. (2017) Scientists have demonstrated that a human protein known as valosin containing protein (VCP) is essential for replication of human...
Cells that stand in the way of HIV cure: Discovery expands understanding of marrow’s…
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Every day, 17 million HIV-infected people around the world swallow pills that keep the virus inside them...
Researchers map out genetic ‘switches’ behind human brain evolution
Credit: Luis de la Torre-Ubieta/UCLA Health FINDINGS UCLA researchers have developed the first map of gene regulation in human neurogenesis, the process by which neural...
EJAF and EGPAF launch new project to fight adolescent HIV in Africa
Washington, D.C., London, U.K.–Nov. 9, 2015– The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) today launched a new project...
UVA finds ANOTHER immune system link science said didn’t exist
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System The University of Virginia School of Medicine has again shown that a part of the body thought to...
Saved by the sun
Credit: Michael Hawkes A new twist on the use of renewable energy is saving children's lives in Africa. The innovation–a solar powered oxygen delivery system–is...
Scripps first in West to treat heart attack with new supersaturated…
Credit: TherOx Inc. SAN DIEGO – A physician at Scripps Health's Prebys Cardiovascular Institute has become the first in the Western United States to treat...
Cellular stress process identified in cardiovascular disease
Combining the investigative tools of genetics, transcriptomics, epigenetics and metabolomics, a Duke Medicine research team has identified a new molecular pathway involved in heart attacks...
Rice University technology could cut MRI scan times
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Patients who have to undergo a magnetic resonance imaging scan may be spared the ordeal of having to lie still in...
Keck School of Medicine of USC receives $2.2 million NIH grant for…
Credit: Les Dunseith LOS ANGELES – Jay R. Lieberman, MD, chair and professor of orthopedic surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University...
Video game system technology helping physical therapists, athletic…
Credit: Photo by Rachel Coward COLUMBIA, Mo. – Motion-based lab technology can help physical therapists, clinicians and athletic trainers analyze how we move–it also is...
MD Anderson and nation’s cancer centers jointly endorse updated…
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center As national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) remain low, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has...
Steering an enzyme’s ‘scissors’ shows potential for stopping Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine The old real estate adage about "location, location, location" might also apply to the biochemical genesis of Alzheimer's disease, according...
