Health & Medicine

Posted August 2, 2013:

• New Findings Could Help Improve Development of Drugs for Addiction


• Pollutants from Incense Smoke Cause Human Lung-Cell Inflammation


• Alcoholism Could Be Linked to a Hyper-Active Brain Dopamine System


• How 'Junk DNA' Can Control Cell Development


• Discovery of Novel Gene Mutations in Leukemia Patients Opens Up Personalized Therapy Options


• Novel 3-D Simulation Technology Helps Surgical Residents Train More Effectively


• Why Is Orange the New Black for Female Victims of Trauma?


• Necrostatin-1 Counteracts Aluminum's Neurotoxic Effects


• New Drugs to Find the Right Target to Fight Alzheimer's Disease


• Tired, Moody and Pregnant? Exercise May Be the Answer


• Study of Gene Expression Has Revealed First Steps of Evolution in Gene Regulation in Mice

Posted August 1, 2013:

• Burnt Sugar Derivative Reduces Muscle Wasting in Fly and Mouse Muscular Dystrophy


• Genetics: More Than Merely a Mutated Gene


• The Four-Point Test to Predict Death Risk from C. Difficile


• Simple Ultrasound Treatment May Help Protect the Kidneys


• Speedier Scans Reveal New Distinctions in Resting and Active Brain


• Novel Drug Shuts Down Master Protein Key to Lymphoma


• Stimulating Brain Cells Can Make False Memories


• Re-Learning How to See: Researchers Find Crucial on-Off Switch in Visual Development


• New Type of Protein Modification May Play a Role in Cancer and Diabetes


• Blocking Key Enzyme in Cancer Cells Could Lead to New Therapy


• Advance in Regenerative Medicine Could Make Reprogrammed Cells Safer While Improving Their Function


• Removing a Protein Enhances Defense Against Bacteria in CGD Mice


• As Climate, Disease Links Become Clearer, Study Highlights Need to Forecast Future Shifts


• Two Dimensions of Value: Dopamine Neurons Represent Reward but Not Aversiveness


• Long-Sought Method to Efficiently Make Complex Anticancer Compound Developed


• New Treatment Strategy for Breast Cancer Spread to Brain


• The When and Where of the Y: Research on Y Chromosomes Uncovers New Clues About Human Ancestry


• New Target for the Fight Against Cancer as a Result of Excessive Blood Vessel Formation


• Stray Prenatal Gene Network Suspected in Schizophrenia


• We Each Live in Our Own Little World -- Smellwise


• Promising Compound Could Offer New Treatment for Heart Failure


• When Prescribing Antibiotics, Doctors Most Often Choose Strongest Types of Drugs


• Catching Cancer Early by Chasing It: Portable Diagnostic Device That Can Travel to the Patient


• A Roadblock to Personalized Cancer Care?


• Targeted Therapy Identified for Protein That Protects and Nourishes Cancer


• New Insight Into How Brain 'Learns' Cocaine Addiction


• New Metabolic Pathway Involved in Cell Growth and Implicated in Cancer as Well as Metabolic Disorders Identified


• Potential Nutritional Therapy for Childhood Neurodegenerative Disease


• New Designer Compound Treats Heart Failure by Targeting Cell Nucleus


• Efficient Model for Generating Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells


• Researchers Find Home of Best Stem Cells for Bone Marrow Transplants


• Protein Linked to Cognitive Deficits in Angelman Syndrome Discovered


• New Model for Staph Bone Infections Outlined


• Antibiotic Resistance Among Hospital-Acquired Infections Is Much Greater Than Prior CDC Estimates


• Researchers Target 'Cell Sleep' to Lower Chances of Cancer Recurrence


• Fetal Stress Disrupts the Way Genes Are Transmitted


• A New Tool for Brain Research


• New Target Identified for Food Allergy Therapy


• Breath Analysis Reliably Indicates Presence, Level of Infection in Mice