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Just add water and treat brain cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a technique that delivers gene therapy into human brain cancer cells using nanoparticles that can be freeze-dried and stored for up to three months ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study identifies neural activity linked to food addiction

Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple sclerosis: Risk factors in children

Canadians have one of the highest rates of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in the world with approximately 1,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Primarily striking in adulthood, physicians and researchers with the Canadian Pediatric ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

ATS issues joint statement on the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The American Thoracic Society has released new official clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The statement replaces ATS guidelines published in 2000, and reviews current ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Medical Minute: Family tree one factor in colorectal cancer risk

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In 2010, according to the American Cancer Society, there were more than 142,000 new cases of colorectal cancer in the United States and over 51,000 people died from the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Vitamin D deficiency in cirrhosis

A research team from Denmark examined the vitamin D status in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis compared to those with primary biliary cirrhosis. They found that vitamin D deficiency in cirrhosis relates to liver dysfunction ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contrary to popular belief, not all cases of chronic pancreatitis are alcohol-induced

The relative rate of alcohol-related chronic pancreatitis (CP) is lower when compared to other causes, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modeling retinitis pigmentosa with iPS cells

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a cluster of genetically determined eye disorders that cause visual defects such as night blindness and narrowing of the field of vision, due to progressive loss of rod photoreceptors. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's in a name? Broadening the biological lexicon to bolster translational research

So-called model organisms have long been at the core of biomedical research, allowing scientists to study the ins and outs of human disorders in non-human subjects.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A novel prognostic marker for biliary atresia

A research team from China characterized the differentially expressed gene profiles in livers from biliary atresia (BA) patients. They found that RRAS gene and its related MAPK pathway are important regulatory modules in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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