Monthly Archives: Novembre 2018
Alzheimer’s disease : Researchers discovered a mechanism by which harmful tau protein aggregates are...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered a mechanism by which harmful tau protein aggregates are transmitted between neurons.
Alongside amyloid plaques, tau aggregates...
Mothers whose activity levels drop as their children are growing up are linked to...
Overweight and obesity often continue for generations in families.
The links can be genetic, but are also related to family relationships and lifestyle habits.
"Parents have...
Link between liver damage and heart
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have collaborated on a clinical trial that identifies indicators for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - a typically asymptomatic disease caused...
Scientists identified the mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal epithelial...
Scientists from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research identified the mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), thus...
A new artificial intelligence algorithm outperforming radiologists and can reliably screen chest X-rays for...
In a matter of seconds, a new algorithm read chest X-rays for 14 pathologies, performing as well as radiologists in most cases, a Stanford-led...
Researchers discovered mechanism by which RAS proteins, central to cancer signaling, are regulated in...
Who regulates the key regulator?
The Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences reports online in the journal Science about a...
First look at the essential protein molecule responsible for prompting cell division in Staphylococcus...
A new look at the inner-workings of bacterial cells could help researchers overcome deadly antibiotic resistance and save the lives of tens-of-thousands of people...
Screening for colorectal cancer reduce the need for chemotherapy and emergency surgeries among male...
While screening for colorectal cancer does not reduce mortality, it does reduce the need for chemotherapy and emergency surgeries among male patients, according to...
Both aspirin and a purified omega-3 reduce the number of pre-cancerous polyps in patients...
Both aspirin and a purified omega-3, called EPA, reduce the number of pre-cancerous polyps in patients found to be at high risk of developing...
World’s first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole...
EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first...
A world-first clinical trial of a new cellular immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) has...
A world-first clinical trial of a new cellular immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) has improved symptoms and quality of life for the majority of...
Sugar-sweetened beverages increase risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases may actually be addictive
Just as we might have guessed, those tasty, sugar-sweetened beverages that increase risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases may actually be addictive.
Youth between...
Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why’ really influence teen suicide ?
A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in a psychiatric emergency department said that watching the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" had increased their...
A team of scientists identified three genes responsible for recurrent molar pregnancies
A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University have identified three genes responsible for...
A team of scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed the first modeling system...
A team of scientists at Boston Children's Hospital has developed the first modeling system for testing age-specific human immune responses to vaccines outside the...
