The vascular bypass revolution
Coronary or peripheral bypasses are the most frequently performed vascular operations. Although one million patients per year and around the world, undergo this intervention, its...
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Copper essential for burning fat, researchers find
Credit: Lakshmipriya Krishnamoorthy and Joseph Cotruvo Jr., UC Berkeley Is copper deficiency contributing to the obesity epidemic? Though small amounts of copper are essential to...
Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in prostate cancer development and progression
The research article – Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development and Progression: Insight to Therapy, by Dr Claudio Festuccia (University of L’Aquila, Italy)...
Activity of nerve cell in freely moving animal analyzed by new robot microscope system
Researchers from Osaka University and Tohoku University have developed a novel robot microscope system that automatically tracks a freely moving small animal and manipulates its...
Rutgers researchers show how gene activation protein works
Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three-dimensional structure of a gene-specific transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the pro..
Scientists unpack how Toxoplasma infection is linked to neurodegenerative disease
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite about five microns long, infects a third of the world’s population. Ingested via undercooked meat or unwashed...
A new way to nip AIDS in the bud
SALT LAKE CITY, June 9, 2016 – When new AIDS virus particles bud from an infected cell, an enzyme named protease activates to help the...
Body’s own gene editing system generates leukemia stem cells
Cancer stem cells are like zombies — even after a tumor is destroyed, they can keep coming back. These cells have an unlimited capacity to...
Cellular ‘racetrack’ accurately clocks brain cancer cell movement
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have developed an experimental laboratory test that accurately clocks the “speed” of human brain tumor cell movement along a...
Research showing why hierarchy exists will aid the development of artificial intelligence
New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to...
Candida-specific helper T cells are preferential and early targets of HIV
Candida yeasts normally live on human skin and mucous membranes without causing disease. In individuals with a weakened immune system, however, they are a major...
DNA damage by ultrashort pulses of intense laser light
In a recent development, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research report that damage to DNA can be induced by ultrashort pulses of high...
New antiviral drugs could come from DNA ‘scrunching’
PHILADELPHIA – Evidence of DNA "scrunching" may one day lead to a new class of drugs against viruses, according to a research team from the...
New compound shows potential for triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a promising new compound for targeting...
Neural stem cell transplants promote Parkinson’s recovery in non-human primates
Human parthenogenetic stem cells, derived from unfertilized oocytes, can be used without destroying potentially viable human embryos to generate unlimited supply of neural stem cells...
