Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified a new potential treatment pathway for cardiovascular disease.
The potassium chloride cotransporter 1 (KCC1) structure solved in this study carries positively charged potassium ions (K+) and negatively charged chloride…
We all know that food is essential to healthy development of the brain and body, especially in the earliest stages of life. But exactly how early brain growth…
A study in experimental models suggests that allopregnanolone, one of many hormones produced by the placenta during pregnancy, is so essential to normal fetal…
A single dose of a highly diluted VSV-Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine–approximately one-millionth of what is in the vaccine being used to help control the ongoing…
Gene therapy has broadened the treatment possibilities for those with immune system deficiencies and blood-based conditions, such as sickle cell anemia and…
A chance finding ten years ago led to the creation by researchers of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) of the first mice born with much longer…
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped bacterium transmitted by deer ticks. Most cases of Lyme disease can be treated effectively with…
Insulin, a hormone essential for regulating blood sugar and lipids, is normally produced by pancreatic β cells. In many people with diabetes, however,…
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to identify the presence of a specific type of antibody, called anti-citrullinated protein…
Many people think of the padding on their stomach or hips when they hear the term “body fat”. “But no human being could survive without lipids, as these…
Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder, is known to be driven by “helper” T cells, white blood cells that mount an inflammatory attack on the brain and…
Every tissue in the human body has an immune cell in it called a macrophage. Macrophages play important roles in the immune system's initial response to…
In many cases only potent analgesics such as opiates are able to relieve the suffering of those affected. But these medications have serious side effects,…
For their study, the researchers investigated rats suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. This is the most common form of the disease in humans. Unfortunately,…
The Klebsiella oxytoca bacterium was increasingly detected during routine hygiene screenings in the neonatal ward of a children's hospital in Germany. The…
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