Using drugs for different diseases than initially intended for
Credit: University of Southern Denmark One drug, one disease. This is how we traditionally think about pharmaceutical drugs, but many of them are actually effective...
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Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment
Credit: No credit supplied. Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic native animal species -...
Enzyme research provides a new picture of depression
Despite the fact that more than four percent of the world's population suffer from depression, and even though approximately 1,500 individuals commit suicide each year...
1 in 7 people living with HIV in the EU/EEA are not aware of their HIV status
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. With 29 747 newly reported HIV infections in 2015, the EU/EEA notification rate is similar to...
The good, the bad and the spliceosome!
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Fas protein can either inhibit or promote the controlled cell death (apoptosis), depending on...
Komodo dragons help researchers understand microbial health in captive animals
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different. In the wild, these four-legged carnivores...
Huntington’s disease affects muscle as well as neurons, study reveals
Credit: Miranda et al., 2017 Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington's disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that may explain some symptoms of...
Management of feral horses an ongoing challenge in the United States
Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Feral horses are free-ranging descendants of once-domesticated horses. All free-ranging horses in North America are feral horses, and between...
Study says salt marshes have limited ability to absorb excess nitrogen
Credit: Photo by DS Johnson/VIMS. Add fertilizer to your garden and your plants will probably grow bigger and taller. Add fertilizer to a salt marsh...
A molecular switch between life, sex and death
Credit: Copyright: Florian Raible, University of Vienna All organisms need energy, but sources of energy such as food are usually available in limited quantities. Animals...
Kew supports Mexico in race against time to protect incredible biodiversity
One of the world's leading botanical science research institutions, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is celebrating 15 years of partnerships aimed at protecting Mexico's biodiversity...
WDS DSA announce unified requirements for Core Trustworthy Data Repositories certification
Credit: DSA and WDS Tokyo, Japan and The Hague, Netherlands - 25 November 2016 - The ICSU World Data System (WDS) and the Data Seal...
Walking faster after stroke, managing chemobrain after cancer
Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute researchers recently presented results from two studies at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. The annual conference is an expansive educational...
NIJ grant to develop investigative tool for counterfeit bills
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (11-29-16) -- Patrick Buzzini of Sam Houston State University received a National Institute of Justice grant to develop chemical signatures...
Enhanced CRISPR lets scientists explore all steps of health and disease in every cell type
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge researchers have created sOPTiKO, a more efficient and controllable CRISPR genome editing platform. Today, in the journal...