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24 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Professor Mark Baker, Director of Guidelines at NICE, said, “Having a baby is a time of huge change and any woman can find herself needing help...
18 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A large screening programme has identified several genes associated with age-related conditions including hearing loss, retinal degeneration and osteoarthritis. The animal study may lead to studies of the equivalent human gene and help develop screening programmes to identify the risk of developing an age-related condition many years before symptoms appear...
18 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A deep-water marine sponge collected at Fort Lauderdale's coast contains leiodermatolide, a natural product that inhibits the growth of cancer cells as...
18 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at Imperial College have studied how the psychedelic substance LSD works in the brain and the effect on speech and language, discovering that...
17 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Cancerous acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells produce and release special structures that can be traced in the blood, and therefore could have major implications on the diagnosis, monitoring, drug delivery and treatment of childhood leukaemia...
17 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Recent studies show that sleep disturbance is not only a negative outcome from PTSD, it may also contribute to its onset...
16 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The drug development company will collaborate with the research centre on develoing microbiome-derived immunotherapies for cancer patients, to influence the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors...
15 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Foetal haemoglobin lacks beta sub-units and has gamma sub-units instead. Thus, beta-thalassemia or SCD–associated mutations, which impair the production or function of the beta sub-unit, do not cause problems with foetal haemoglobin, which can transport oxygen effectively in adults...
15 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Targeting a single protein, SUPT4H1, reduces the levels of the three toxic entities created by the C9orf72 gene expansion, the most common genetic cause of ALS...
11 August 2016 | By University of Manchester
Transgenic mice that develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were used with one group of 10 treated with mefenamic acid, and 10 with a placebo. The mice were treated at a time when they had developed memory problems. After one month's treatment, memory loss was completely reversed back to the levels…
11 August 2016 | By Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology
HIV is surrounded by a protein shell called the capsid. It has now been found that HIV hides within the capsid while it builds DNA...
10 August 2016 | By Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
The most common cause of cancer deaths is not the primary tumour itself but metastases that subsequently form. Most tumour cells spread via the bloodstream. To do so, individual tumour cells have to enter blood vessels and leave the bloodstream again at remote locations...
10 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The company 's intends to develop the most effective cannabis strains specific to pain, nausea, epilepsy and PTSD, solving the critical need for real science to support medical marijuana claims...
10 August 2016 | By Charles River Laboratories
Charles River Laboratories announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Consortium...
9 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Three diseases; Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, all caused by parasites called ‘kinetoplastids, all sharing similar biology and genetics, leading scientists to investigate the possibility of a single chemical to destroy all three...
