News tagged with niemann pick disease
Simple blood test may diagnose deadly Niemann-Pick type C disease (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A fatal genetic disorder that frequently takes years to diagnose may soon be detectable with a simple blood test, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the ...
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Nov 03, 2010 |
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Twin Reno girls treated for rare disease
(AP) -- Twin 5-year-old girls living with a rare disease are among the first in the country being treated for their condition at a Reno hospital after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted special permission to use ...
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Apr 16, 2009 |
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Lactating tsetse flies models for lactating mammals?
An unprecedented study of intra-uterine lactation in the tsetse fly, published 18 April 2012 in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press, reveals that an enzyme found in the fly's milk functions similarly in ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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New database for vital model organism launched
A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Push to spur more drugs for deadly rare diseases
(AP) -- Every other week, 7-year-old twins Addison and Cassidy Hempel have an experimental medicine injected into their spines in hopes of battling a rare, fatal disease.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Innovative screening method identifies possible new treatment for fatal childhood disease
Many genes that cause human diseases have parallel genes in other organisms, including yeast. Now Columbia University researchers have used an innovative yeast-based screening method to identify a possible treatment for the ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Breakthrough in Niemann-Pick Type C research reported
A paper announcing a breakthrough discovery in the fight against Niemann-Pick Type C, coauthored by Olaf Wiest and Paul Helquist of the University of Notre Dame's Department Chemistry & Biochemistry and Frederick Maxfield, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Sleeping Beauty hooks up with herpes to fight brain disease
Neuroscientists have forged an unlikely molecular union as part of their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system.
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Hunting newborn tests for super-rare gene diseases
(AP) -- At his first birthday, John Klor couldn't sit up on his own. A few months later, he was cruising like any healthy toddler - thanks to a special diet that's treating the North Carolina boy's mysterious ...
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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Stem cell derived neurons for research relevant to Alzheimer's and Niemann-Pick type C diseases
Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's ...
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Scientists identify cholesterol-regulating genes
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, have come a step closer to understanding how cholesterol levels are regulated. In a study published today in the journal ...
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Jul 07, 2009 |
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Researchers identify compound that frees trapped cholesterol
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified in mice a compound that liberates cholesterol that has inappropriately accumulated to excessive levels inside cells.
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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