Targeting Dkk1 for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Neurologists just took another step forward in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. While study mice, they discovered that the antibodies that block the function of…
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Ticks, Lyme Disease and Public Health
Durand Fish, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses ticks and the associated health…
Antarctic Ecosystems Threatened by Invasive Alien Species and Climate Change
According to the first ever continent-wide risk assessment, climate change and the increasing number of visitors are putting the Antarctic ecosystems at risk. The research…
Central American Bats Harbor a New Subtype of Influenza
It’s been reported that fruit bats in Guatemala are hosting a new type of the influenza A virus, according to a new study published in…
“Area X” of Zebra Finch May Provide Insights to Human Speech Disorders
The male zebra finch has some 2,000 genes in a region of the brain known as “Area X” that are significantly linked to singing and…
Bottlenose Dolphins Use Signature Whistles to Greet Others
Bottlenose dolphins can understand the meaning and order of words, which can be conveyed through human hand gestures. It appears that now humans are also…
Unlocking Chemical Pathways to Synthesize Chemicals Found in Nature
A new study could enable scientists to synthesize many important chemicals currently found only in nature. The research shows how scientists used powerful X-rays to…
Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP2 and Breast Cancer
A new study identified the protein phosphatase SHP2 as an important player in the signaling cascades governing tumor initiating cells. The scientists found that SHP2…
Intranasally Administered Neuropeptide S Lowers Anxiety and Alters Neuronal Activity
New findings show a non-invasive way to administer anxiolytic neuropeptide S (NPS). While working with mice, the findings show that intranasally administered neuropeptide S was…
Researchers Use Bioinformatics and Epigenetics to Aid Cancer Research
A computational epigenetics research group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken is using software programs to rummage through the genomes of cancer…
Researchers Stop Parkinson’s Disease in Animal Model
Researchers at UCLA have found a way to prevent a protein called α-synuclein from forming “clumps,” which become toxic and kill the brain’s neurons in…
Researchers Use Microfluidic Device to Monitor Sickle Cell Disease
By measuring how well blood samples flow through a microfluidic device, researchers at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have…
Inhibiting HDAC2 Can Reverse Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice
Researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by blocking the enzyme known as HDAC2. With the number of worldwide Alzheimer’s victims expected to…
Researchers Study the Link Between Hyperactivity in the Brain and Depression
Researchers at UCLA have shown that people with depression have increased connections among most brain areas. While studying the functional connections of the brain in…
Diets Lacking in Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Cause Your Brain to Age Faster
A new study from UCLA showed that people with low levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their red blood cells scored lower on tests of…
Researchers Induce Magnetism to a Non-Magnetic Organism
To better understand the underlying biology of induced magnetization, researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School…
Stem Cells Discovered in Ovaries May Yield More Eggs
A new study suggests that the stem cells located in human ovaries might be able to produce new eggs. The findings were published in the…
Rare Example of Bacterial Gene Transfer Providing Evolutionary Benefit
A bacterial gene that has been discovered in the genome of the coffee berry borer beetle (Hypothenemus hampei) allows it to occupy a unique ecological…