In May, the Food Standards Agency’s Board agreed unanimously that 'mandatory fortification' with folic acid should be introduced to make sure the number of…
The team led by David H. Ellison, M.D. – whose findings are described in a paper being published today (NOV. 1) in the Journal of Clinical Investigation –…
The scientists discovered that specific immune cells called macrophages play a role in the disease process in older mice by failing to block the development of…
VIB scientists connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in collaboration with the Flemish biotech company ThromboGenics, have been studying the…
SIDS is defined as “the sudden death of an infant under one year of age, which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance…
According to an initial definition developed by a panel of experts from the Betty Ford Institute, recovery is “a voluntarily maintained lifestyle characterized…
Minocycline is an off-the shelf anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic drug that is neuroprotective in animal models of stroke, trauma, and neurodegenerative…
In a study published in the journal Rheumatology, researchers asked patients to look at a reflection of one arm whilst moving their other in a different…
The public associate visibly dirty wards with increasing rates of MRSA, but there is little evidence for the effectiveness of basic cleaning on reducing the…
They are collaborating on research into the technological properties of composites that have a better capacity to adapt to the skeleton, thereby hopefully…
A gsm which measures your heartbeat and blood pressure using simple sensors is not a distant possibility; it is just a small innovation away from our present…
In the USA, kidney cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer deaths, and is thought to be responsible for nearly 13 000 deaths a year. Kidney cancer is not a…
Outbreaks of filovirus haemorrhagic fevers (FHFs) such as those caused by the Ebola and Marburg viruses can only be controlled if agencies have the support and…
After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished and spread worldwide.”Our results show that the strain of virus that spawned the U.S. AIDS epidemic…
We have recently shown that lens injury (LI) or intravitreally applied zymosan allow RGCs to survive axotomy and regenerate axons in the injured optic nerve.Activated macrophages and oncomodulin have been suggested to be the principal mediators of this phenomenon. However, several lines of evidence show that macrophage-derived factors alone cannot account for all the beneficial effects of intraocular inflammation….
In the Comment which opens the Series, The Lancet’s editor Dr Richard Horton says: “This ‘scandal of invisibility’ means that millions of human beings are born…
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