Tag: Medicine/Health

Maintaining vitamin D receptor levels in insulin-producing cells could protect against diabetesCredit: CBATEG-UAB Maintaining vitamin D receptor (VDR) levels in ...

Perhaps we will not need all the ventilators after all

With a grant of just over DKK 5 million, Professor and DMSc Ulf Simonsen from Aarhus University is immediately beginning ...

Oncotarget Roscovitine enhances all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced nuclear enrichment

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 12 reported that using the HL-60 human non-APL AML model where ATRA causes nuclear enrichment of ...

Destroying DNA to save the genome — study offers new insights into sepsis and its treatment

Scientists uncover a new mechanism underlying the life-threatening condition and propose a novel treatment strategy centered around cell-free chromatinCredit: Dr ...

Deleting a gene prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice by disguising insulin-producing cells

Credit: Courtesy of Hugo Lee MADISON, Wis. -- Removing a gene from the cells that produce insulin prevents mice from ...

The genetic quest to understand COVID-19

Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel ...

Artificial intelligence for very young brains

Credit: CHU Sainte-Justine Canadian scientists have developed an innovative new technique that uses artificial intelligence to better define the different ...

Intense form of radiation slows disease progression in some men with prostate cancer

Highly focused radiation can cause systemic immune response for men with limited spread of prostate cancerCredit: Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D. ...

COVID-19 preventative vaccine trial for healthcare workers

Credit: MCRI Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious ...

Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population

Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population ...

Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children

Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose. ...

Overcoming primary resistance to checkpoint inhibition with selective inhibitor of TGFβ1

Selective inhibition of latent TGFβ1 activation with SRK-181 has demonstrated an improved preclinical safety profile compared to conventional inhibitors of ...

Experimental model mimics early-stage myogenic deficit in boys with DMD

Large spike in TGFβ activity in injured muscle triggers a downward spiral leading to muscle degeneration and failed muscle regenerationCredit: ...

Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer

Credit: Robert Ivkov, Ph.D. Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best ...

Lipid helps heal the eye’s frontline protection

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to ...

Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is almost uniformly ...

Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19

University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into ...

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility

The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in ...

Those living in rural areas, uninsured or on Medicaid less likely to receive recommended lung cancer treatment

Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that socioeconomic status disparities cause patients to miss out on treatment that improves five-year ...

Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeleton aids running