A detailed analysis of gene fusions present at high frequency in the most common pediatric brain tumors has been performed for the first time in a study published online today in Genome…

Scientists have shed light on why some people are apple-shaped and others are pear-shaped. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have pinpointed a protein that plays a part in how fat is…

Viruses can penetrate every part of the body, making them potentially good tools for gene therapy or drug delivery. But with our immune system primed to seek and destroy these foreign invaders,…

Washington: A new research has shed light on the nature of human intelligence. The study has suggested that grey matter volume in the ”cerebellum” at the back of the brain predicts cognitive…

New Delhi: Before you pop an emergency birth control pill, think again. Contraceptive medication might be a quick way to prevent pregnancy, but it increases the risk of heart disease among women,…

Researchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world’s most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease. The discovery could lead to…

Metabolomics is a post-genomic research field for analysis of low molecular weight compounds in biological systems, and its approaches offer an analysis of metabolite level changes in biological samples. Recently, metabolomic method…

Dr Andrew Buist, Joint Deputy Chairman of the BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee has today [Thursday 10 March 2011], praised colleagues across Scotland for their efforts in ensuring that those most at…

Illicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections say physicians writing in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The review, which…

Circulating tumor cells, which play a crucial role in cancer metastasis, have been known to science for more than 100 years, and researchers have long endeavored to track and capture them. Now,…

Biologists tend to look at cells in bulk, observing them as a group and taking the average behavior as the norm the assumption is that genetically identical cells all behave the same…

If you can’t stop the beta-amyloid protein plaques from forming in Alzheimer’s disease patients, then maybe you can help the body rid itself of them instead. At least that’s what scientists from…

Researchers in Europe reported that treatment with modified-release sildenafil significantly reduced the frequency of attacks of Raynaud’s phenomenon in patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc), also known as scleroderma. The double-blind,…

Physicians at Rush University Medical Center are testing a unique gene therapy product called CERE-120 to evaluate if its use can improve the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Rush is one of 11…

LONDON – A class of chemotherapy drugs designed to block signalling pathways in cancer cells also kills the parasite that causes malaria, opening up a whole new way of combating this deadly…