Using a new stem-cell based drug screening technology with the potential to reinvent and greatly…
Month: April 2013
Evolving genes lead to evolving genes: Selection in European populations of genes regulated by FOXP2
Researchers have designed a method that can universally test for evolutionary adaption, or positive (Darwinian)…
More efforts needed to regulate dietary supplements, experts urge
Dietary supplements accounted for more than half the Class 1 drugs recalled by the US…
Study to treat deadly form of thyroid cancer shows promise
A combination of therapies may prove to be a promising advance for the treatment of…
‘Health MOT’ programme could uncover 440,000 new diabetes, heart or kidney patients per year
Researchers believe a new health MOT-style program for over-40s is likely to uncover more diabetes,…
Production of toxic protein causes common neurodegenerative disorder
Researchers have recently discovered that an expansion of DNA in patients with the common neurodegenerative…
Learned helplessness in flies and the roots of depression
When faced with impossible circumstances beyond their control, animals, including humans, often hunker down as…
High levels of glutamate in brain may kick-start schizophrenia: Implications for early diagnosis and new treatment strategies
An excess of the brain neurotransmitter glutamate may cause a transition to psychosis in people…
Hologram-like 3-D brain helps researchers decode migraine pain
Wielding a joystick and wearing special glasses, a pain researcher rotates and slices apart a…
Stem cell senescence drives aging, study suggests
Declining levels of the protein BubR1 occur when both people and animals age, and contribute…