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Disease Processes

Study Identifies Key Enzyme for Development of Autoimmune Diseases

October 22, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases, hosted by the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, have discovered that an enzyme involved in key...

New Technology Diagnoses Sickle Cell Disease in Record Time

October 19, 2020
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Boulder, CO — Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have developed a new way to diagnose diseases of the blood like sickle cell disease...

An Alternative to Animal Experiments

October 15, 2020
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Munich, Germany — The human intestine is vital for both digestion and absorbing nutrients as well as drugs. For any type of research that involves intestines, scientists require research models that...

How Deadly Parasites ‘Glide’ into Human Cells

October 15, 2020
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Hamburg, Germany — In biological terms, gliding refers to the type of movement during which a cell moves along a surface without changing its shape. This form of movement is unique to parasites from...

Scientists Find Neurochemicals have Unexpectedly Profound Roles in Human Brain

October 13, 2020
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Blacksburg, VA — In first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain, an international team of researchers has revealed two well-known neurochemicals — dopamine and serotonin — are at...

When It Comes to Arthritic Bone Spurs, Stem Cells Hurt Instead of Heal

October 12, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — The same stem cells that heal broken bones can also generate arthritic bone spurs called osteophytes, according to a new study in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. “Although...

Alzheimer’s Risk Gene Disrupts Endocytosis, but Another Disease-Linked Gene could Help

October 8, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — In a new study, a team of scientists based at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research reveals evidence showing that...

Deep-Brain Imaging at Synaptic Resolution with Adaptive Optics 2-Photon Endomicroscopy

October 8, 2020
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Hong Kong, China — The ability to undertake in vivo imaging of a living brain in a mammalian animal model is crucial for elucidating how the brain functions. However, the brain consists of tens of...

Researchers Identify Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain

October 6, 2020
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Notre Dame, IN — The death of neurons, whether in the brain or the eye, can result in a number of human neurodegenerative disorders, from blindness to Parkinson’s disease. Current treatments...

Researchers Discover a Rare Genetic Form of Dementia

October 5, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — A new, rare genetic form of dementia has been discovered by a team of Penn Medicine researchers. This discovery also sheds light on a new pathway that leads to protein build up in...

Kawasaki Disease is Not a Homogenous Disease Nor are Its Triggers

October 1, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego report that while Kawasaki disease (KD) occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among...

First ‘Pathoconnectome’ could Point Toward New Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases

October 1, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — Scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have achieved another first in the field of connectomics, which studies the synaptic connections between...

Anti-Convulsant Drug can Modify DNA Conformation and Interact with Chromosome Proteins

September 29, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Results of recent studies involving valproic acid, used for decades as an anti-convulsant drug, show that it can interact with the conformation of DNA and regulate gene expression. These...

A Step Toward Helping Patients Breathe Deeply

September 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Your lungs and airways need to be stretchy, sort of like balloons. Take a big breath, and they’ll open right up. Damaged lungs can’t open properly. Patients with asthma,...

Deep Learning Helps Explore the Structural and Strategic Bases of Autism?

September 24, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — Psychiatrists typically diagnose autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by observing a person’s behaviour and by leaning on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

Regulatory T Cells could Lead to New Immunotherapies Aimed at Treating Multiple Sclerosis

September 22, 2020
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Irvine, CA — In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers have discovered how regulatory T cells (Treg) are instrumental in limiting the damage caused to the spinal cord in diseases...

Researchers Discover a Mechanism Allowing Immune Cells to Regulate Obesity

September 21, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Macrophages are immune system cells. They are essential in the early response to infections, and they also have a key role in the proper functioning of our tissues and the regulation...

New Smart Drug Delivery System may Help Treatment for Neurological Disorders

September 21, 2020
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New Brunswick, NJ — A Rutgers-led team has created a smart drug delivery system that reduces inflammation in damaged nervous tissues and may help treat spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders. The...

Study Connects Hormones We’re Born with to Lifetime Risk for Immunological Diseases

September 17, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — Differences in biological sex can dictate lifelong disease patterns, says a new study by Michigan State University researchers that links connections between specific hormones present...

Brain Astrocytes Show Metabolic Alterations in Parkinson’s Disease

September 8, 2020
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Kuopio, Finland — A new study using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology links astrocyte dysfunction to Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology. The study carried out at the University...

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