Melbourne, Australia – Researchers from Melbourne-based medical research institute, WEHI, have unravelled how mutations in a gene can lead to an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder that causes abnormal brain development in newborns and infants. The study is the first to prove that a protein called Trabid helps control neuronal development, and that mutations...
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Accelerated aging was more common in recent birth cohorts and was associated with increased incidence of early-onset solid tumors, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April 5-10. “Multiple cancer types are becoming increasingly common among younger...
St. Louis, MO – Nearly all adults with Down syndrome will develop evidence of Alzheimer’s disease by late middle age. A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that the disease both starts earlier and moves faster in people with Down syndrome, a...
New Brunswick, N.J. – “Taking out the trash” takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key to cancer tumor suppression in a process known...
DETROIT, Mich. — Wayne State University postdoctoral research fellows Patrick Monaghan, Ph.D., and Michael VanNostrand, Ph.D., along with Nora E. Fritz, Ph.D., PT, DPT, NCS, director of the Neuroimaging and Neurorehabilitation Lab and associate professor of physical therapy in the Department of Health Care Sciences in WSU’s Eugene Applebaum College...
DETROIT, Mich. – A team of researchers from Wayne State University was awarded a $1.4 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the study, “Cytochrome c acetylation drives prostate cancer aggressiveness and Warburg effect.” The study, led by Maik Hüttemann, Ph.D., professor of molecular medicine and genetics,...
DETROIT, Mich. – A research project led by Lobelia Samavati, M.D., professor of internal medicine and molecular medicine and genetics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed a tool to rapidly and inexpensively diagnose sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory...
DETROIT, Mich. – Investigators from the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at the Wayne State University School of Medicine reported today in a publication in Cancer Immunology Research the characterization of a novel therapeutic approach capable of restoring immune surveillance and providing long-term protection against ovarian cancer...
WASHINGTON DC – Gene-editing technologies are progressing fast, and there are now more than 100 ongoing trials for new therapies and diagnostics based on CRISPR-Cas, zinc finger nucleases, TALENS, and base editors. While most of these trials are evaluating ex vivo gene-edited cell-based therapies for cancers and genetic blood disorders,...
Bristol, England – A weight loss intervention in people with type 2 diabetes was found to alter levels of cancer-related proteins, according to the findings of a new University of Bristol-led study. The study, published in eBioMedicine, is the first to show that weight loss in people recently diagnosed with...