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Neurogenetics Research Sheds Light On The Causes Of Neurological Disease
The last two decades have seen tremendous progress in understanding the genetic basis of human brain disorders. Research developments in this area have revealed fundamental insights into the genes and molecular pathways…
First In Vivo Screening System For Complete Human Nuclear Hormone Receptor Family
The InDanio screening system can be used, for example, to functionally characterize ‘orphan’ receptors – those for which their natural ligands or specific function are unknown – and thus qualify them as…
Black Rice Bran May Help Fight Disease-Related Inflammation
Scientists are reporting evidence that black rice – a little-known variety of the grain that is the staple food for one-third of the world population – may help soothe the inflammation involved…
PBS-Bio Works With 3 New Firms To Accelerate Cancer Drug Development
In an industry that faces increasing challenges in delivering new drugs to patients, Predictive Biomarker Sciences (PBS-Bio) has announced three new contracts aimed at bringing new medicines to the marketplace. PBS-Bio said…
Body Cooling Treatment Study For Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Launched By NHLBI
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the first large-scale, multicenter study to investigate the effectiveness of body cooling treatment in infants…
Women Fight The Effects Of Chemotherapy Long After Treatment Ends
For some women, the effects of breast cancer, the most common cancer affecting women, do not end when they leave the hospital. Now, researchers in the University of Missouri School of Health…
Social Interaction Can Identify Mental Pathology
Research at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) shows that observing social interaction between healthy individuals and those with a mental disorder can help identify the specific disorder. For their paper, published October…
Research Presented At AVS Meeting In Albuquerque Has Implications For Osteoarthritis
A team of researchers in North Carolina has discovered that lubricin, a synovial fluid glycoprotein, reduces wear to bone cartilage. This result, which has implications for the treatment of sufferers of osteoarthritis,…
Fighting Inflammatory Disease With The Help Of Elusive Protein
A husband and wife research team from Melbourne, Australia, have identified a protein that may be a key therapy for many inflammatory diseases, including those affecting premature babies. In the October edition…
All over 40s should consider daily dose of aspirin
Prof Peter Rothwell of Oxford University has found that taking the painkiller daily for five years can reduce the chance of developing colorectal cancer by a quarter and cut deaths from the…
KSA to Focus on Training Healthcare Professionals
According to our latest research report, “Saudi Arabian Healthcare Market Forecast to 2012”, Saudi Arabia has made a commitment to expand and strengthen higher medical education, and in particular has emphasized the…
MRI scans ‘lead to unnecessary breast surgery’
Magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) is particular good at finding tumours that are hard to spot using standard x-ray mammography. Younger women with a genetically high risk of breast cancer can be offered…
Research could lead to new therapies for breast cancers
WORK by scientists in Australia could open the door to a new way of treating certain breast cancers. The disease is now the most common cancer in the UK, with around 125…
Intestinal microbiota can increase broccoli’s cancer-preventive power
A University of Illinois study has shown for the first time that sulforaphane, the powerful cancer-fighting agent in broccoli, can be released from its parent compound by bacteria in the lower gut…