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- Breakthrough on Huntington’s disease
- Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancer
- Acne treatment: Natural substance-based formula is more effective than artificial compounds
- Drugs found to both prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease in mice
- Poliovirus vaccine trial shows early promise for recurrent glioblastoma
- Mayo Clinic: How gold nanoparticles can help fight ovarian cancer
- Resistance to last-line antibiotic makes bacteria resistant to immune system
- Study suggests new source of kidneys for transplant
Breakthrough on Huntington’s disease
Researchers at Lund University have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington’s disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains of mice.
“We are the first to show that it is possible to prevent the depression symptoms of Huntington’s disease by deactivating the diseased protein in nerve cell populations in the hypothalamus in the brain. This is hugely exciting and bears out our previous hypotheses”, explains Åsa Petersén, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Lund University.
Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancer
Researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and in laboratory and animal tests it appears to reduce the systemic damage done to other organs while significantly improving the treatment of lung tumors.
Acne treatment: Natural substance-based formula is more effective than artificial compounds
University of Granada scientists have patented a new treatment for acne that is based on completely natural substances and is much more effective than artificial formulas because it does not create resistance to bacteria and has no secondary effects.
Drugs found to both prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease in mice
Researchers at USC have found that a class of pharmaceuticals can both prevent and treat Alzheimer’s Disease in mice.
The drugs, known as “TSPO ligands,” are currently used for certain types of neuroimaging.
Poliovirus vaccine trial shows early promise for recurrent glioblastoma
An attack on glioblastoma brain tumor cells that uses a modified poliovirus is showing encouraging results in an early study to establish the proper dose level, researchers at Duke Cancer Institute report.
Mayo Clinic: How gold nanoparticles can help fight ovarian cancer
Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why, and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective against ovarian cancer cells. The discovery is detailed in the current online issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Cancer Treatment
Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancerResearchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and...
Mayo Clinic: How gold nanoparticles can help fight ovarian cancerPositively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo...
The compound in the Mediterranean diet that makes cancer cells ‘mortal’New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to...
Discovery pinpoints cause of 2 types of leukemiaPatients with two forms of leukemia, who currently have no viable treatment options, may benefit from existing drugs developed for...
Stem Cell Research
Revolutionary techniques could help harness patients’ own immune cells to fight diseaseThe human body contains immune cells programmed to fight cancer and viral infections, but they often have short lifespans and are not...
The potential impact of olfactory stem cells as therapy reported in Cell TransplantationA study characterizing the multipotency and transplantation value of olfactory stem cells, as well as the ease in obtaining them, has...
New stem cell technique promises abundance of key heart cellsCardiomyocytes, the workhorse cells that make up the beating heart, can now be made cheaply and abundantly in the laboratory. Writing...
From stem cell to brain cell – new technique mimics the brainA new technique that converts stem cells into brain cells has been developed by researchers at Lund University. The method is simpler,...
Diabetes
Immune protein could stop diabetes in its tracks.Melbourne researchers have identified an immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of type 1 diabetes...
Reprogramming cells to fight diabetesFor years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited...
UAB researchers cure type 1 diabetes in dogsResearchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), led by Fàtima Bosch, have shown for the first time that it is possible...
Artificial pancreas: The way of the future for treating type 1 diabetesIRCM researchers, led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, were the first to conduct a trial comparing a dual-hormone artificial...
Heart Disease
Growing new arteries, bypassing blocked onesScientific collaborators from Yale School of Medicine and University College London (UCL) have uncovered the molecular pathway by which...
Cell-permeable peptide shows promise for controlling cardiovascular diseaseAtherosclerosis ? sometimes called “hardening of the arteries” ? is a leading cause of death and morbidity in Western countries....
L-carnitine significantly improves patient outcomes following heart attackL-carnitine significantly improves cardiac health in patients after a heart attack, say a multicenter team of investigators in a study...
Clot-busting drug as effective as angioplastyA clot-busting therapy may benefit some heart attack patients who cannot have immediate angioplasty, according to research presented...
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