Starving cancer cells of sugar — does it work?
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Previous research have shown that rapidly dividing cancer cells require higher levels of sugar than healthy cells. This dependency on sugar...
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From stem cells to a functional heart: The role of the Mesp1 gene
Credit: Fabienne Lescroart Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Cambridge identified the role of key gene Mesp1 in the earliest step...
C-Path, CHDI, CDISC announce public review period for…
TUCSON, AZ, NEW YORK, NY, and AUSTIN, TX – September 11, 2017 – Critical Path Institute (C-Path), CHDI Foundation, Inc. (CHDI), and The Clinical Data...
Rapid responses, few adverse effects in targeted agent in Phase1 trial in rare blood…
ATLANTA – In a Phase 1 trial, patients with an advanced or aggressive form of systemic mastocytosis (AdvSM), a rare blood disorder, had rapid and...
No sex without kiss! Researchers discover how the brain controls sex
Credit: privat A research team led by Professor Julie Bakker at Liège University (Belgium) and Professor Ulrich Boehm at Saarland University (Germany) has made a...
Potential enzyme as therapeutic target for diabetes
Credit: Kanazawa University Abnormalities in glucose uptake by the liver (or hepatic glucose uptake; HGU) cause elevations in blood glucose levels following meals, a state...
Pioneering ‘Science to Survive’ pipeline gives cancer…
The Translational Oncology Initiative will accelerate potentially lifesaving treatments from the lab bench to bedside Sheffield scientists are at the forefront of cancer research areas...
NIH funds $2 million study of caregivers of relatives with bipolar…
Credit: CWRU Family members of the more than 10 million adults with bipolar disorder in the United States often see their own heath suffer from...
CytomX and MD Anderson Cancer Center enter into strategic collaboration for…
CytomX Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CTMX), a biopharmaceutical company developing investigational Probody™ therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today entered into a collaboration with The University of...
Scientists create stem cell therapy for lung fibrosis conditions
Credit: NC State / UNC CHAPEL HILL, NC – A team of scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University (NCSU)...
Advancing our understanding of how the disease lupus is prevented in…
Credit: Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) A group of researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) have identified a...
Alerting stem cells to hurry up and heal
Credit: Image courtesy of Joseph T. Rodgers BINGHAMTON, NY – With Earth Day approaching, new research from Binghamton University-State of New York could help U.S....
Back-to-school worries for parents? 1 in 3 very concerned bullying, cyberbullying
Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Parents may also experience some nerves as their children prepare to...
Blind people have brain map for ‘visual’ observations too
Credit: KU Leuven – Joris Snaet Is what you're looking at an object, a face, or a tree? When processing visual input, our brain uses...
Transgender youth avoid health care due to discomfort with doctors
Credit: UBC Close to half of transgender young Canadians aren't accessing health care when they need it, according to a new study from the University...
