Greetings, FDA approves groundbreaking new drug, Ibrance, for patients with estrogen-receptor positive advanced breast cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a potentially groundbreaking new drug to treat…
Greetings, Patients who have heart attacks in hospital are THREE TIMES more likely to die than those who have one at home People who arrive at the emergency room after…
Greetings, Scientists Identify Link between Inflammation and Type 2 Diabetes A newly published study led by Yale University reveals the molecular mechanism by which insulin normally inhibits production of glucose…
Greetings, Cheap smartphone device detects HIV, syphilis in 15 minutes: study U.S. and Rwandan researchers said Wednesday they have developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can detect HIV and syphilis…
Greetings, How green tea can KILL cancer cells: Compound destroys disease while leaving healthy cells unscathed Compound EGCG kills mouth cancer cells leaving healthy ones alone Past studies revealed the…
Greetings, Mystery of the virus paralysing children in the US: Rare bug related to polio may have caused more than 100 unexplained cases Clusters of acute flaccid paralysis have been…
Greetings, Researchers Uncover Genetic Trigger for Immune Response Yale researchers have identified an unexpected relationship between mtDNA and the innate immune response, showing a new source of inflammation that could…
Greetings, Nutritional Supplements Help Ease Clinical Depression A new review of the literature evaluated the findings of nearly 200 published papers that studied the effectiveness of five nutritional supplements on…
Greetings, How a mutated gene receptor and stem cell technology could lead to a cure for HIV Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte. This image…
Greetings, History in the making? DNA nanobots to target cancer cells in test patients…
Greetings, Break on through to the other side: How HIV penetrates the blood-brain barrier Although it is known that HIV can enter the brain early during infection, causing inflammation and…
Greetings, US Sen. Rand Paul says vaccines can lead to ‘profound mental disorders’ US Senator Rand Paul, who is also an ophthalmologist, says vaccines can lead to mental disorders, arguing…
Greetings, Walking on ice takes more than brains: ‘Mini-brain’ in spinal cord aids in balance Walking across an icy parking lot in winter — and remaining upright — takes intense…
Greetings, Latent HIV may lurk in ‘quiet’ immune cells, research suggests Hide and seq: Lillian Cohn (above) and her colleagues sequenced the sites in the genomes of infected cells where…
Greetings, Functioning brain tissue grown in 3-D structure CALB and L7 are Purkinje-cell specific late markers are shown. GRID2 is a marker for a Purkinje-specific glutamate receptor. LHX5 is a…
Greetings, Russian HIV Vaccine Passes 2nd Clinical Trial Phase, Health Ministry Says pokesperson for the Russian Health Ministry said that Russian HIV vaccine has passed the second phase of clinical…
Greetings, Yale Research Shows Immune Cells Are an Ally, Not Enemy, in Battle Against Alzheimer’s The cell in green is a microglia, an immune system cell that is blocking free…
Greetings, Study Shows Vitamin D Protects Against Colorectal Cancer A newly published study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reveals that vitamin D can protect some people with colorectal cancer by…
Greetings, A cure for hair loss? Scientists grow hair on rats using stem cells – and they say the treatment could work on humans too Achievement made after coaxing stem…
Greetings, Swedish research casts doubt on efficiency of anti-depressants in treatments of elderly , Anti-depressants may not help elderly people overcome depression, a Swedish study shows. The study by SBU…
Greetings, Virtual reality therapy improving lives of stroke survivors: New Zealand scientists Stroke survivors might soon be able to go online to find a system to help improve their memories…
Greetings, Recipient of novel stem cell therapy doing ‘well’ after operation A novel embryonic stem cell therapy has apparently proved successful as a woman who has received the treatment for…
Greetings, Growing Human Kidneys in Rats Sparks Ethical Debate Researchers say they have developed a new technique that will get more kidneys to people who need transplants, but the method…
Greetings, U.S. regulator OKs first mobile apps system for glucose monitoring The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved marketing of the first set of mobile medical apps…
Greetings, Experimental Ebola vaccine sent to Liberia The first batch of experimental Ebola vaccine is being shipped to West Africa and will arrive in Liberia later on Friday, British multinational…
Greetings, The language of T lymphocytes deciphered, the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of the immune system The analysis of the T cell specificity and function…
Greetings, Australian boy fitted with artificial pancreas in world first A four-year-old Australian boy has become the first patient in the world to be fitted with an artificial pancreas. Xavier…
Greetings, Coffee may protect against some skin cancers A new study suggests that drinking coffee on a regular basis may protect individuals against malignant melanoma, a leading cause of skin-cancer…
Greetings, Why are sperm counts falling? Contraceptives in drinking water and chemicals in some plastics may be to blame, scientists claim Sex hormone oestradiol – the birth control hormone that…
Greetings, Conformational Changes of EF-G on the Ribosome During tRNA Translocation New research from Yale University provides insights into the conformational space that EF-G samples on the ribosome and reveals…