MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, Minn. — Researchers at the University of Minnesota, have developed a new visual diagnostic technique that can be used to advance early detection for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease and similar diseases that affect animals, including Chronic Wasting Disease in deer. The research is published in npj...
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MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL — In a major scientific breakthrough, newly published research from an international consortium led by the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Cancer Center has the potential to transform the landscape of ovarian cancer treatment. Published today in JAMA Network Open, the findings indicate that ovarian cancer patients with high levels...
Columbia, Missouri – New research at the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building has discovered a potential treatment for an underlying cause of cardiovascular disease in people with Type 2 diabetes. More than 30 million Americans live with Type 2 diabetes. One common feature of diabetes is the hardening and...
Münster, Germany – In a transformative study published in the Journal Science Translational Medicine, an international team of researchers, led by the University of Münster and Department of Neurology at the University Hospital of Münster, Germany, in collaboration with the German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis (KKNMS), has made a significant...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – UNC School of Medicine researcher Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Ian Windham, a former PhD student from the Cohen lab, have made a new discovery about apolipoprotein E (APOE) – the biggest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Older people who inherited a genetic variant called...
NORMAN, Oklahoma – In the past year, three researchers at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at OU Health Sciences have earned more than $5 million in grant money to study causes and potential treatments for necrotizing enterocolitis, a deadly intestinal disease that primarily affects infants born prematurely. Because...
Norman, Oklahoma – Like alien invaders in a sci-fi movie, pancreatic cancer cells quickly adapt to the weapons used against them and find ways to survive, even in the harshest of conditions. Understanding why is the aim of cancer scientists everywhere. A University of Oklahoma researcher recently advanced the knowledge...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the United States. Roughly one in every 1,000 people will develop some form of cystic kidney...
Osaka, Japan – Treating rare diseases can be complicated at the best of times, and it gets even more complicated when different patients with the same disease exhibit different symptoms. Now, researchers from Japan have reported a cellular signature that might explain why some patients with autoimmune disease are stable...
Ottawa, Canada – A University of Ottawa neuroscientist’s personal battle with cancer has inspired new research geared toward tailoring radiation treatment to reduce damage to the brain. Cancer treatments – including radiation therapy – can have debilitating effects on patients, weakening the immune system and leading to memory and cognitive...