Medicine News

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 like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. This diagram shows an adeno-associated virus. Prof Schaffer and colleagues changed ten amino acids in one of its coat proteins, shown in orange, to get it to pass through retinal cells to the target photoreceptors (University of California, Berkeley) Over...

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...

Jun 3, 2013 by News Staff

A healthy Nordic diet can lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels and may reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a new Scandinavian study published...

Jun 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a research published online on May 31 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a synthetic compound originally derived from...

May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers led by Dr Angelika Gründling from Imperial College London has discovered 4 proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. researchers studying zebrafish have found that riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide. Zebrafish. The inset...

May 23, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has found that breathing car emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, sometimes called the ‘good...

May 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have unexpectedly discovered that vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. This...

May 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular...

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought. Newly...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...

Apr 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...

Apr 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...

Apr 23, 2013 by News Staff

A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...