Monthly Archives: Maggio 2019
Researchers can track the molecular evolution of cancers
A powerful new set of scientific tools developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center (NYGC) researchers enables them to track the...
New study evidence the need to review how retinal cells in mammals process light
Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say that new experiments with mouse eye tissues strongly suggest that a longstanding "textbook concept" about the way a mammal's...
MRI 3-D images show how infants’ brains and skulls change shape during birth
Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), scientists have captured 3-D images that show how infants' brains and skulls change shape as they move through the...
Capsular polysaccharide A (PSA) protect against fatal neuroinflammation
The existence of certain microorganisms in your gut may bolster the immune system’s ability to fend off a herpes viral attack that can cause...
Prostate cancer : drug that targets a protein called PHLPP2 may prevent the cancer...
Researchers in New York have found that treating human prostate cancer cells with a drug that targets a protein called PHLPP2 may prevent the...
Researchers are looking for a new solution to control cells maturation
These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind...
New type of decoy drug can tackle infections that are resistant to antibiotics
Imperial medical students have helped to devise a new type of 'decoy' drug to tackle infections that are resistant to antibiotics.
In lab tests on...
Age and sex of an individual strongly influences the bacterial diversity of the gut...
The human gut microbiome is a complex microbial ecosystem that plays an important role in our health.
For example, these microbes - bacteria, viruses,...
Grapheme-colour synesthesia provides a clear advantage in statistical learning
"When I see equations, I see the letters in colors.
I don't know why," wrote Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
"I see vague pictures...
Researchers developed and tested a cell culture model via a highly standardized cell programming...
Nerve cells derived from human stem cells often serve as the basis for research into brain diseases.
However, these cells differ considerably in their...
Results from inaccurate IHC tests lead to biased results and call into question the...
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Center say they have affirmed widespread inconsistencies in the use of a common laboratory procedure called immunohistochemical staining,...
Identified two drug targets for the diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia...
A pair of collaborative studies led by Fen-Biao Gao, Ph.D., have identified two potential drug targets for the diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and...
Brain cancer : FLASH radiotherapy dramatically reduces the adverse cognitive side effects
In hopeful news for brain cancer patients, researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered how...
Beverage tax : sales of sugary beverages dropped by 38 percent in chain food...
The “Soda Tax”
First, the tax doesn't apply just to soda, at least not in all cities that collect it. Reaching for that juice drink...
Stress Shorten Telomeres
People who are stressed over long periods tend to look haggard, and it is commonly thought that psychological stress leads to premature aging and...
