Cellular quality control process could be Huntington’s disease drug target
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. — The loss of motor function and mental acuity associated with Huntington's disease might be treatable by...
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Fatty liver diagnosis improved with magnetic resonance
Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Taking tissue samples from the liver to diagnose fatty liver can be replaced in most cases by a painless magnetic resonance...
Men should avoid rock music when playing board games, say scientists
Credit: Imperial College London / Royal College of Music Men should avoid rock music when playing board games, say scientists Mozart may enhance a man's...
Tactile feedback adds ‘muscle sense’ to prosthetic hand
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University Engineers working to add "muscle sense" to prosthetic limbs found that tactile feedback on the skin allowed blindfolded test subjects to...
Low-salt & heart-healthy dash diet as effective as drugs for some adults with high…
A study of more than 400 adults with prehypertension, or stage 1 high blood pressure, found that combining a low-salt diet with the heart-healthy DASH...
Tufts microbiologist Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D., named Pew Latin American Fellow
BOSTON (June 9, 2016) — Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D., has been selected as one of ten Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences by The...
Good as gold
Few experiences invoke as much anxiety as a call from your doctor saying “you need to come back for more tests.” Your imagination goes wild...
UH professor wins bronze for research of rare neurological disorder
HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2015 – Michihisa Umetani, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston's Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling,...
Gene-regulatory factors shown to improve pancreatic cancer response to chemotherapy
Credit: Department of Molecular Cytogenetics,TMDU Tokyo, Japan – Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease because of the difficulty of identifying it at an early...
Treatment of pregnant patients with bone and joint injuries complicated, requires team of physicians
Credit: © American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons ROSEMONT, Ill. (May 1, 2017)–Nearly one in 1,000 pregnant women in the United States suffer bone and joint...
For kids prone to wheezing with respiratory infections, early antibiotics help
Respiratory infections are common in preschoolers, but while most children recover fairly easily from the typical coughs and congestion, a significant number develop illnesses severe...
SLU researcher finds cause and possible relief of cancer bone pain
Credit: Ellen Hutti for Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a paper published in the journal Pain, Saint Louis University researcher Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D.,...
Multiregional brain on a chip
Credit: Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard University Harvard University researchers have developed a multiregional brain-on-a-chip that models the connectivity between three distinct regions of the br..
Researchers test first drug to prevent the onset of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy
Credit: IDIBELL IDIBELL Researchers of the Neuro-Oncology Unit of Bellvitge University Hospital – Catalan Institute of Oncology, led by Dr. Jordi Bruna, have successfully tested...
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service It’s a sound that can keep even the weariest among us from falling asleep: the high-pitched whine of a mosquito....
