Monthly Archives: Ottobre 2018
Eating disorders : how people perceive their bodies – the researchers used virtual reality...
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent...
First ever CAR therapy licensed for the treatment of lymphoma available to patients
A type of 'supercharged' immune cell could be mass-produced to help fight cancer.
The researchers behind the early-stage finding, from Imperial College London, say the...
A healthy home environment could help offset children’s genetic susceptibilities to obesity
A healthy home environment could help offset children's genetic susceptibilities to obesity, according to new research led by UCL.
The study, published this week in...
Body’s inability to fully utilize mineral manganese might be to blame for some cases...
Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis, or curvature...
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists.
The finding is a turnabout for...
Inflammation in the womb may explain link between prenatal inflammation and postnatal immune status
Each year 15 million infants are born preterm and face high risks of short- and long-term complications, including sepsis, severe inflammation of the gut,...
Researchers has found genetic risk factor for erectile dysfunction
For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome that raises a person's risk of erectile...
Why the Russian defense system S-400 is bought from many nations?
The Vostok-2018 war games in eastern Siberia last month marked Russia's biggest military exercise in more than 30 years, with about 300,000 Russian, Chinese and Mongolian...
USC scientists have created the most detailed atlas yet of the brain’s memory bank
Curing some of the most vexing diseases first requires navigating the world's most complex structure—the human brain. So, USC scientists have created the most...
Alzheimer’s progression : found unknown genetic aberrations
In a large-scale analysis of RNA from postmortem human brain tissue, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Columbia University...
Researchers have developed the first bioelectronic medicine: an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that speeds...
Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have developed the first example of a bioelectronic medicine:
an implantable, biodegradable wireless device that...
A new method for sequencing DNA for better detection of cancer and other diseases...
A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving the way for better detection of cancer and...
Parents of newborns may be familiar with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria
Parents of newborns may be familiar with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria—in Switzerland, all newborn babies are screened for this genetic disease.
Children found to have...
For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a lethal...
For the first time, scientists have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a lethal metabolic disorder in laboratory animals, offering the potential to treat...
It is possible to restores insulin cell function in case of type 2 diabetes
By blocking a protein, VDAC1, in the insulin-producing beta cells, it is possible to restore their normal function in case of type 2 diabetes.
In...
