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The new study suggests that defects in Tregs could be responsible for alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss, and could potentially play a role in other forms of baldness, including male pattern baldness
Water is the most essential resource of life, but it's also something of a mystery due to its unique solvation characteristics - how things dissolve in it.
Radiation therapy is part of the treatment regimen for about two thirds of cancer patients today. Radiotherapy is well tolerated in most cases, but it can also lead to damage in healthy tissues that are also irradiated. One debilitating side effect is radiation-induced fibrosis. Fibrosis is a process of scarring…
A study led by the University of Birmingham has made a breakthrough in the understanding of how different genetic mutations cause acute myeloid leukaemia.
Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to synthesise lung surfactant, a drug used in the care of preterm babies, by mimicking the production of spider silk.
Investments are now being made to roll out this innovation across healthcare and broaden the scope of the research in this field.
Measuring a blood marker, copeptin, can successfully predict the risk of heart attacks in people with type-2 diabetes.
A study has found that abnormal proteins found in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease all share a ability to cause damage...
1-2% of the US population have psoriasis, an immune-mediated disease that causes red, patchy and scaly marks on the skin.
Study shows 'liquid biopsy' after abnormal mammogram and other imaging can help rule out breast cancer, reduce breast biopsy by up to 67% in women...
A cancer drug for patients with certain types of leukaemia and lymphoma can also prevent reactions to some of the most common airborne allergens, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study. The promising data from this pilot study could have greater implications for adults with food allergies.
A multi-institutional team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has discovered how a potential treatment strategy for Huntington disease (HD) produces its effects, verified its action in human cells and identified a previously unknown deficit in neural stem cells from patients with HD.
Alcoholism contributes to nearly half of liver cirrhosis-related deaths in the United States.
Antibodies are able to activate human nerve cells within milliseconds and hence modify their function.
This finding could have a great impact on the study of paediatric tumours, as it could already constitute one of the factors that produces their growth.
