(University of Pittsburgh) The reluctance of American chemical manufacturers to update their technology has dulled the nation's competitive edge for decades; however, University of Pittsburgh..
Credit: Photo by Cindy Brauer LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2018 - About 1 in 2,500 people have a degenerative nerve disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 7, 2018--Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic antisense oligonucleotides with different chemical...
Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: they have thick electrical insulation...
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New...
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A surprise finding by medical scientists may lead to the development of a possible treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). While examining human...
Credit: Vasilios Kalas Half of all women will experience the pain and burning of a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point in their lives....
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion protein mutations. To determine whether three of...
Credit: Ross Neitz A discovery sheds light on how cancerous cells differ from healthy ones, and could lead to the development of new strategies for...
New regulations are needed to protect people and the environment from toxic pesticide ingredients that are not currently subject to safety assessments. This is the...
The protein FUS, whose mutation or disruption causes many cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), works as a central component of...
NEW YORK (March 8, 2018) - Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national attention to curtail inappropriate use...
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), rheumatologist Shervin Assassi, M.D., is developing a blood test to...
Credit: Westmead Institute New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after a heart attack, potentially offering...
Credit: UC3M The project has been undertaken using digital games with 270 participants who make up the mental health care ecosystem: individuals with mental health...
