A handheld diagnostic device that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators first developed to diagnose cancer has been adapted to rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and other important infectious ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

May 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 3 |

Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 12, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Development of a new way to make a powerful tool for altering gene sequences should greatly increase the ability of researchers to knock out or otherwise alter the expression of any gene they are studying. The new method ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 09, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Combining two strategies designed to improve the results of cancer treatment – antiangiogenesis drugs and nanomedicines – may only be successful if the smallest nanomedicines are used. A new study ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Apr 09, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers – along with collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals – have found a way to block, in an animal model, the damaging ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 09, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 0 |

Investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Regenerative Medicine and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have found that Sox2 – one of the transcription factors used in the conversion of ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 06, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jun 12, 2011 4.9 / 5 (14) 3 |

Researchers using two brain-imaging technologies have found that apparently normal older individuals with brain deposits of amyloid beta – the primary constituent of the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Mar 27, 2011 4.6 / 5 (7) 1 |

A detailed analysis of lung tumors that became resistant to targeted therapy drugs has revealed two previously unreported resistance mechanisms. In a report in the March 23 Science Translational Medicine, investigators from t ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Mar 23, 2011 not rated yet 0

Measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear. In a report receiving advance ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mar 20, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

Current projections regarding the eventual size and extent of the cholera epidemic in Haiti may greatly underestimate the potential number of cases, according to a report that will appear in The Lancet and has been releas ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mar 15, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The reduced risk of colorectal cancer associated with taking aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be confined to individuals already at risk because of elevations in a particular inflammatory ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Mar 09, 2011 not rated yet 0

A study published in the March 2011 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that Massachusetts' new court-ordered mental health screening and intervention program led to more children being identified as beh ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 07, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 1

Thirteen new gene regions have been convincingly linked to coronary atherosclerosis in a massive, new, international genetics study involving investigators from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Mar 06, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |