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Muscular dystrophy diagnosis delayed almost 2.5 years in boys

Boys show signs of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) for 2 ½ years before they obtain a diagnosis and disease-specific treatment, about the same length of delay children have endured for the past 20 years despite advances ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Oocytes: Going with the flow

Most cells rely on structural tethers to position chromosomes in preparation for cell division. Not so oocytes. Instead, a powerful intracellular stream pushes chromosomes far-off the center in preparation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers link gene mutations to Ebstein's anomaly

Ebstein's anomaly is a rare congenital valvular heart disease. Now, in patients with this disease, researchers of the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Newcastle, UK and the Max Delbrück ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny Trojan horses attack brain cancer cells

Scientists in Germany have developed a way of smuggling an anti-cancer drug past the protective blood-brain barrier and into brain tumours and metastases using a nanocarrier – a tiny capsule specially designed to pass ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Novel autoantibodies identified in patients with necrotizing myopathy

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential candidates for immunosuppressive ...

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Blocking biofilms: Alzheimer's research sheds light on potential treatments for urinary tract infections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections (UTIs), but that's what scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The robot children

The brains of the snake robots are still no more advanced than that of a one-year-old, but scientists at SINTEF (Norway) want to bring them up to the level of a teenager. At least.

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New research on the 'guardian of the genome'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Protein p53 protects the body against cancer and is knocked out in many cancer tumours. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified two molecules that can restore p53's cancer-killing properties. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cold and brown fat raise the prospect of a new method of treating obesity

Sven Enerbäck, Professor at the Institute of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is one of the scientists who published their results in The New England Journal of Medicine this w ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study examines link between cholesterol lowering drugs and muscle cramps

Cramps, muscle soreness, pain and weakness. Sounds like a bad day at the Olympics. No. They're the side-effects millions of people suffer when they take cholesterol-lowering drugs or statins, drugs designed to protect against ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Female monkeys more dominant in groups with relatively more males

Female monkeys are more dominant when they live in groups with a higher percentage of males. This is caused by self-organisation. This surprising discovery was made by researchers at the University of Groningen. What makes ...

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created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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