Scientists Report Advance in Tuberous Sclerosis Brain Science
Providence, RI (Scicasts) – Doctors often diagnose tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) based on the abnormal growths the genetic disease causes in organs around the body.
View ArticleStudy Moves One Step Closer to Unlocking Causes of Congenital Heart Disease
Bethesda, MD (Scicasts) – Findings from the first large-scale sequencing analysis of congenital heart disease bring us closer to understanding this most common type of birth defect. [Video]
View ArticleResearch Suggests Flu in Pregnancy May Quadruple Child’s Risk for Bipolar...
Bethesda, MD (scicasts) – Pregnant mothers’ exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by...
View ArticleHuman Disease Leptospirosis Identified in New Species, the Banded Mongoose,...
Arlington, VA (Scicasts) – The newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is coming from a previously unknown source: the banded mongoose.
View ArticleTarget to Prevent Hardening of Arteries Identified
Orlando, FL (Scicasts) – The hardening of arteries is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, an often deadly disease in which plaques, excessive connective tissue, and other changes build up inside vessel...
View ArticleNew Theory on Genesis of Osteoarthritis Comes with Successful Therapy in Mice
Baltimore, MD (Scicasts) – Scientists at Johns Hopkins have turned their view of osteoarthritis (OA) inside out. Literally.
View ArticleDepression Linked to Telomere Enzyme, Ageing, Chronic Disease
San Francisco, CA (Scicasts) – The first symptoms of major depression may be behavioural, but the common mental illness is based in biology ― and not limited to the brain.
View ArticleGoing Live – Immune Cell Activation in Multiple Sclerosis
Munich, Germany (Scicasts) – Biological processes are generally based on events at the molecular and cellular level. To understand what happens in the course of infections, diseases or normal bodily...
View ArticleNew Strategy Required in the Search for Alzheimer's Drugs?
Gent, Belgium (Scicasts) – In the search for medication against Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have focused – among other factors – on drugs that can break down Amyloid beta (A-beta).
View ArticleProteins in Migration - New Animal Model Provides Insights into Mechanisms of...
Bonn, Germany (Scicasts) – In Parkinson’s disease, the protein “alpha-synuclein” aggregates and accumulates within neurons. Specific areas of the brain become progressively affected as the disease...
View ArticleStudy Reveals Artificial Sweeteners May Do More Than Sweeten
St. Louis, MO (Scicasts) – Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a popular artificial sweetener can modify how the body handles sugar.
View ArticleScientists Discover How HIV Kills Immune Cells
Bethesda, MD (Scicasts) – Untreated HIV infection destroys a person’s immune system by killing infection-fighting cells, but precisely when and how HIV wreaks this destruction has been a mystery until...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Alzheimer’s and Low Blood Sugar in Diabetes May Trigger a...
San Francisco, CA (Scicasts) – A new UC San Francisco-led study looks at the close link between diabetes and dementia, which can create a vicious cycle.
View ArticleStudy Points to Role of Nervous System in Arthritis
Montreal, QC, Canada (Scicasts) – Arthritis is a debilitating disorder affecting one in 10 Canadians, with pain caused by inflammation and damage to joints.
View ArticleStudy Reveals Link Between Crohn’s Disease and Intestinal Virus
Uppsala, Sweden (Scicasts) – A new study reveals that all children with Crohn’s disease that were examined had a commonly occurring virus – an enterovirus – in their intestines. This link has...
View ArticleScientists Turn Muscular Dystrophy Defect On and Off in Cells
Jupiter, FL (Scicasts) – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified small molecules that allow for complete control over a genetic defect responsible...
View ArticleStudy Links Vitamin D Deficiency to Accelerated Ageing of Bones
Berkeley, CA (Scicasts) – Everyone knows that as we grow older our bones become more fragile. Now a team of U.S. and German scientists led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s...
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