In a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world juxtaposition, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely. Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the…
Missing Sugar Molecule Raises Diabetes Risk In Humans
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in human millions of years ago and our subsequent…
Brain Imaging Provides Window Into Consciousness
Using a sophisticated imaging test to probe for higher-level cognitive functioning in severely brain-injured patients provides a window into consciousness — but the view it presents is one that is blurred in…
Overlooked Brain Area Is An Important Locus Of Depression
A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and UC San Diego (UCSD) has collected evidence suggesting that a previously overlooked portion of the brain could…
Doctor calls for pre-marital tests
A doctor is calling on people who suspect they have genetic disorders in their family to undergo tests before getting married. “It is not healthy to make all arrangements for a couple…
Simpler Way Of Making Proteins Could Lead To New Nanomedicine Agents
Researchers have developed a simple method of making short protein chains with spiral structures that can also dissolve in water, two desirable traits not often found together. Such structures could have applications…
Researchers Describe The Pump That Bacteria Use To Resist Drugs
A research team led by Edward Yu of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory has identified and described two parts of the three-part system that pumps toxins from bacteria and allows…
Hyperactive Nerve Cells May Contribute To Depression
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified hyperactive cells in a tiny…
Research sheds new light on problem of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes
A research team, led by La Jolla Institute scientist Joel Linden, Ph.D., has shed new light on the problem of insulin resistance, and identified the key participants in a molecular pathway that…
NIH-funded study finds way to reduce transmission of malaria to humans
Spraying malaria-transmitting mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus can kill the malaria parasite without harming the mosquito, potentially reducing malaria transmission to humans, according to a new study published in the journal…
Protalix receives FDA CRL for taliglucerase alfa NDA for Gaucher disease
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PLX; TASE: PLX), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) regarding the Company’s New Drug Application (NDA) for…
Study investigates risk of dysphagia after radiotherapy treatment for head & neck cancer
Phase III results At the 3rd International Conference on innovative approaches in Head and Neck Oncology (ICHNO), Dr Hanna Rahbek Mortensen and colleagues at hospitals and institutes in Denmark presented results from…
Medtronic acquires chitosan-dextran gel technology for use in functional endoscopic sinus surgery
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that it has completed the purchase of rights to a chitosan-dextran gel technology from Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd. (the commercial development company of the…
ICTS concludes enrollment months ahead of schedule for rheumatology study
ICTS, the patient recruitment and clinical trial services company, has successfully completed the fifth in a series of rheumatology study recruitment efforts for the same sponsor. Using an integrated approach that centered…
Researchers explain genetic differences that distinguish early-transmitting HIVs-viruses
A new finding from scientists at the National Institutes of Health could help efforts to design vaccines and other prevention tools to block HIV in the early stages of sexual transmission, before…