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26 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The integral nature of the mice model market with the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields has allowed companies from these industries to form alliances...
25 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The protein, called neuregulin-1, has many forms and functions across the brain and is already a potential target for brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and schizophrenia...
25 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served rural populations, people of less privileged socio-economic status, along with groups subject to discrimination who have poorer health outcomes often attributed to being socially disadvantaged...
24 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The stria vascularis is essential for normal hearing and is involved in maintaining the endocochlear potential - a difference in charged molecules between compartments of the inner ear which act like a battery to power the transmission of sound signals from the ear to the brain...
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...
