BOSTON, Mass. — Each one of us has around 600 lymph nodes (LNs) – small, bean-shaped organs that house various types of blood cells and filter lymph fluid – scattered throughout our bodies. Many of us have also experienced some of our LNs to temporarily swelling during infections with viruses...
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San Francisco, Calif. – Multiple sclerosis patients whose blood tests reveal elevated NfL, a biomarker of nerve damage, could see worsening disability one to two years later, according to a new study spearheaded by researchers at UC San Francisco. The study is the first to quantify the timeframe preceding disability...
Lancaster, UK – An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. For the first time, scientists have developed a drug that works on both major aggregation-promoting ‘hotspots’ of the Tau protein in the brain –...
Adelaide, Australia – Unravelling the complexities of circular RNAs (circRNAs) in cancer biology has positioned scientists on the cusp of revolutionary breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A new Flinders University study published in Nature Reviews Cancer, one of the world’s top-ranking cancer journals, predicts remarkable potential for...
Checkpoint with forkhead and ring finger (CHFR) is a mitotic stress checkpoint gene whose promoter is frequently methylated in various kinds of cancer. In gastric cancer, CHFR promoter hypermethylation has been reported to lead to chromosome instability (CIN) and genetic instability is one of the hallmarks of human cancer. A...
Toruń, Poland – Boys suffering from Barth syndrome, a genetic determined disease with a very high mortality rate, finally have hope for a cure. What has contributed to this finding is research of Dr. habil Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska, Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland) CU Professor from the Institute of Physics. The...
Cleveland, Ohio – A team led by scientists at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has identified a new therapeutic approach for combating neurodegenerative diseases, offering hope of improved treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Vanishing White Matter disease and multiple sclerosis, among others. Neurodegenerative diseases, which affect millions...
Orange, California – Alzheimer’s disease is the world’s most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting more than 50 million people globally. Alzheimer’s disease is also among the most fatal, landing as one of the top five causes of death worldwide. However, most currently available treatments are limited to alleviating the disease’s symptoms....
Laurel Hollow, NY – Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of California, Davis have reached a new breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research—eight years in the making. It could help slow the disease’s deadly spread. In 2017, as a postdoc in CSHL’s Tuveson lab, Chang-il Hwang and collaborators from...
New York – Pancreatic cancer is not just one disease, but that’s the way it is currently treated. New findings from Tannishtha Reya’s lab could help pave the way for a change. Though most pancreatic cancers are classified as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) several other subtypes exist. “Everyone gets the...