Osteochondrosis affects both people and a range of domestic animals including horses, cows, pigs and dogs. The disease is especially common among Norwegian…
Now researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are studying an unusually pliant yet strong synthetic cartilage…
This method will reduce the cost and time needed in identification processes and it will avoid the need to perform an expensive, unnecessary DNA test since…
Last year, this same group of researchers found that they could completely prevent Alzheimer’s disease in mice genetically engineered with a human Alzheimer’s…
People left paralysed by spinal injuries or suffering from neurodegenerative diseases could regain a degree of independence thanks to a new type of…
Results of these studies appear in the March 11, 2008 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.These studies, led by Brian Kaspar, PhD, a…
Previous studies have already suggested that very small particles, called nanoparticles, breathed in from polluted air can end up in the brain. But this is the…
Recognised as a centre of excellence for ophthalmic research, its researchers, led by director Professor Alan Stitt, will carry out studies of…
Treatment with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole (Femara) can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence even when initiated one to seven years after a course…
Such is the hope of scientists and clinicians at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research who have shown conclusively that people who produce low levels…
The findings that in the future may aid the body’s defense system are published in the March 7 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The research is…
There are several retinopathies of unknown cause; among them AZOOR, Multifocal choroiditis, Serpiginous choroiditis, Idiopathic Blind Spot Enlargement Syndrome…
The study – directed by professor Alessandro Ventura, Director of the Clinic – lasted three years, at the end of which 36% of the children involved, once…
In the latest issue of the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Uppsala University researcher Jarl Wikberg and one of his associates present a…
The findings have just been published in the latest edition of the prestigious international journal Paediatrics.The head of the Australian Rett Syndrome Study…
The findings strengthen the idea that certain parental practices throughout high school and perhaps college could be used to curb high-risk drinking in older…
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