Medicine News

Aug 1, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the United States and China have identified stem cells in urine that can be directed to become multiple cell types. This image shows immunofluorescent staining of in vitro cultured urine-derived stem cells (Shaofeng Wu et al., 2011). “These cells can be obtained through a simple, non-invasive low-cost approach that avoids surgical procedures,” explained Dr Yuanyuan Zhang from the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine...

Jul 31, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Prof Mark Anderson from the University of Iowa have found that the enzyme CaMKII (Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II), known for...

Jul 26, 2013 by News Staff

Rapamycin – an immunosuppressant drug reported to extend the lives of mice by up to 14 per cent – has limited anti-aging effects, according...

Jul 25, 2013 by News Staff

Herpes simplex virus 1 has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its DNA into human cells, according...

Jul 25, 2013 by News Staff

Superresolution single-molecule fluorescence microscopy has given researchers their clearest pictures yet of how white blood immune cells, known as natural...

Jul 19, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Canada, France, Germany and the United States reporting in the journal Cell have found a new ground-breaking way of killing cancer cells. Scientists...

Jul 19, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens...

Jul 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Indiana University, using a three-dimensional cell culture method, has successfully transformed mouse embryonic stem cells into...

Jul 12, 2013 by Bhuminder Singh

Often considered ‘one of the greatest of all men of science,’ Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) is the father of experimental medicine. Claude...

Jul 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...

Jul 5, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists reporting in the journal Nature has discovered a biochemical pathway that links nail growth to fingertip regeneration. Digit...

Jun 29, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have demonstrated that a novel, drug-like molecule called ISRIB (integrated stress response inhibitor) can improve cognitive memory in mice. ISRIB-treated...

Jun 24, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has revealed that dietary fructose (fruit sugar) rapidly causes liver damage in an animal...

Jun 19, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to new research led by Dr Ravishankar Telgi from the Kothiwal Dental College and Research Center, India, consuming cheese and other dairy products...

Jun 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study led by Dr Yannan Qin from the Northwest University in China provides insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains...

Jun 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases...

Jun 12, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Bhuminder Singh from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and his colleagues have announced the discovery of a new mechanism for the development of...

Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

In a new study conducted by U.S. team of scientists from Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, mice engineered with...

Jun 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...

Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...