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Student researchers get new view of the dynamics of cancer cells as they metastasize

A team of student researchers and their professors from 20 laboratories around the country have gotten a new view of cancer cells. The work could shed light on the transforming physical properties of these cells as they metastasize, said Jack R. Staunton, a Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University in the lab of Prof. Robert Ros, and the lead author of a paper reporting on the topic.

29 Apr 2013

Intermittent fasting: A path to weight loss and improved cardiovascular risk

Intermittent fasting is all the rage, but scientific evidence showing how such regimes affect human health is not always clear cut. Now a scientific review in the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease published by SAGE, suggests that fasting diets may help those with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, alongside established weight loss claims.

29 Apr 2013

New treatment strategy for patients with CMT disease on the horizon

A potential new treatment strategy for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is on the horizon, thanks to research by neuroscientists now at the University at Buffalo's Hunter James Kelly Research Institute and their colleagues in Italy and England.

29 Apr 2013

Women eating more protein report weight loss success, researchers find

Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, South Beach Diet, etc., etc., etc. Chances are you have known someone who has tried a high protein diet. In fact, according to the International Food Information Council Foundation, 50% of consumers were interested in including more protein in their diets and 37% believed protein helps with weight loss.

29 Apr 2013

Study gives insight into underlying causes of specific learning disabilities

Up to 10 per cent of the population is affected by specific learning disabilities (SLDs), such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, translating to two or three pupils in every classroom, a new study has found.

29 Apr 2013

Protein C4BP is possibly suitable as transporter for drugs, say researchers

The protein C4BP is similar to a spider in its spatial form with eight "arms". The structure of the "spider body" has recently been described in detail by researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and the Technische Universit-t Darmstadt.

29 Apr 2013

New treatment options for influenza

The flu is caused by an infection with the influenza virus, which mainly attacks the upper respiratory tract - the nose, throat and bronchi and rarely also the lungs. According to the World Health Organization, around five to 15 percent of the population are affected by upper respiratory tract infections during seasonal flu outbreaks, and between 250 000-500 000 people die of the illness every year.

29 Apr 2013

New report shows FFRDCs employed 3,011 postdocs in 2010

According to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation, 22 of the nation's 39 federally funded research and development centers employed 3,011 postdocs in 2010, the year the latest data are available.

29 Apr 2013

Researchers discover new insights into how cells make transition from nonmalignant to metastatic

Cancer cells that can break out of a tumor and invade other organs are more aggressive and nimble than nonmalignant cells, according to a new multi-institutional nationwide study.

29 Apr 2013

Researchers identify how proteasome takes care of unwanted, potentially toxic proteins

Proteins, unlike diamonds, aren't forever. And when they wear out, they need to be degraded in the cell back into amino acids, where they will be recycled into new proteins.

29 Apr 2013

UH professor wins grant to develop promising therapies for melanoma

A University of Houston engineering professor has won a grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance to help develop one of the most promising therapies for patients with the disease.

29 Apr 2013

Researchers develop mobile phone app to support individuals embarking on partial MRP

Mobile phones using text messaging and monitoring have been shown to be useful additions to health programs. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a weight-loss intervention delivered by a smartphone app that supported individuals embarking on a diet and that was evidenced-based.

29 Apr 2013

Study confirms that mesenchymal stem cells may help treat cancer

Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy.

29 Apr 2013

BIOMARGIN research project aims to prevent, diagnose lesions in transplanted kidneys

The BIOMARGIN (BIOMArkers of Renal Graft INjuries in kidney allograft recipients) research project, coordinated by INSERM, has just received financing from the "health" seventh framework programme of the European Commission to the tune of 6 million euros for a four-year period.

29 Apr 2013

Researchers create "designer" tracer for earlier diagnosis and better treatments of Alzheimer's

One of the biggest challenges with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is that by the time physicians can detect behavioral changes, the disease has already begun its irreversibly destructive course.

26 Apr 2013

Study reports liver donors face mortality risk with LDLT

A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

26 Apr 2013

New methods boost researchers' analytical powers by incorporating prior knowledge about SNPs function

As scientists probe and parse the genetic bases of what makes a human a human (or one human different from another), and vigorously push for greater use of whole genome sequencing, they find themselves increasingly threatened by the unthinkable: Too much data to make full sense of.

26 Apr 2013

Evidence shows progerin induced by ultraviolet light is responsible for premature skin aging

A study conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) provides new evidence that longwave ultraviolet light (UVA) induces a protein that could result in premature skin aging.

26 Apr 2013

CNIO researcher captures panoramic photo of proteins that take part in human DNA replication

The Genomic Instability Group led by researcher -scar Fern-ndez-Capetillo at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has for the first time obtained a panoramic photo of the proteins that take part in human DNA division, a process known as replication.

26 Apr 2013

Novel strategy for characterizing RNAs transported from nerve cell to synapse

Despite decades of research, relatively little is known about the identity of RNA molecules that are transported as part of the molecular process underpinning learning and memory.

26 Apr 2013

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Student researchers get new view of the dynamics of cancer cells as they metastasize

Intermittent fasting: A path to weight loss and improved cardiovascular risk

New treatment strategy for patients with CMT disease on the horizon

Women eating more protein report weight loss success, researchers find

Study gives insight into underlying causes of specific learning disabilities

Protein C4BP is possibly suitable as transporter for drugs, say researchers

New treatment options for influenza

New report shows FFRDCs employed 3,011 postdocs in 2010

Researchers discover new insights into how cells make transition from nonmalignant to metastatic

Researchers identify how proteasome takes care of unwanted, potentially toxic proteins

UH professor wins grant to develop promising therapies for melanoma

Researchers develop mobile phone app to support individuals embarking on partial MRP

Study confirms that mesenchymal stem cells may help treat cancer

BIOMARGIN research project aims to prevent, diagnose lesions in transplanted kidneys

Researchers create "designer" tracer for earlier diagnosis and better treatments of Alzheimer's

Study reports liver donors face mortality risk with LDLT

New methods boost researchers' analytical powers by incorporating prior knowledge about SNPs function

Evidence shows progerin induced by ultraviolet light is responsible for premature skin aging

CNIO researcher captures panoramic photo of proteins that take part in human DNA replication

Novel strategy for characterizing RNAs transported from nerve cell to synapse

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