Complete Structure of the “Salvia Receptor” Revealed
A team of researchers have determined the structure of the kappa-opioid receptor, KOR, and give details about how salvinorin A and other drugs interact with…
Disease News
Widespread Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Agricultural Soils
With infectious disease deaths on the rise, a new study gives reason for concern. Researchers found that agricultural soils contained more diverse populations of drug…
Traces of Oil from Deepwater Horizon May Work Their Way up the Food Chain
New research has demonstrated that zooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Mexico accumulated toxic compounds derived from crude oil that rushed from the Macondo well…
Amplifier Chip Measures Nanopores With High Speed Precision
Scientists continue to improve upon nanotechnology and find new uses for it. By designing a custom integrated circuit using commercial semiconductor technology, researchers have developed…
Rett Syndrome Could be Reversed by Bone-marrow Transplant
Rett syndrome, a severe autism spectrum disorder, which affects roughly 1 girl in 10,000 to 20,000 worldwide, could be reversed by a bone-marrow transplant. The…
General Anesthesia May Increase the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
A study published in Annals of Neurology suggests that undergoing surgery and general anesthesia may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study found that…
Locomotion Restored in Mice With Huntington’s-Like Condition
A new study showed that locomotion could be restored in mice with a Huntington’s-like condition by using GABA neurons forged from human embryonic stem cells….
Acorn, White-Footed Mice and Tick Cycle Augment Risks of Lyme Disease in 2012
It’s been explained at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) that the northeastern part of the United States faces the worst year yet…
ML-SA1 Increases Trafficking and Reduces Lysosome Storage
New findings from cellular biologists at the University of Michigan may offer a new way to treat rare inherited metabolic disorders, as well as more…
Using RNA Import to Repair Mutations in Human Mitochondria
For the first time, scientists have been able to identify a way to correct mutations in human mitochondrial DNA by targeting corrective RNAs. The published…
Flu Infections and MRSA Combine into Lethal Cocktail in Maryland
MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can be even deadlier when it is combined with a virulent flu infection. It’s been reported that a family of five…
Transplants Without the Need for Lifelong Immunosupression
As a result of organ transplantation, patients need to take a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressors to fight off graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), which is common and…
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…
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…
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Diseases
Out of the 750,000 different species of insects covering Earth, there are about 14,000 that feed on blood, getting their sustenance by puncturing the skin…
Highest Recorded Rates of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Today the World Health Organization has released an updated report on the situation of drug-resistant tuberculosis around the world, and it’s reporting that drug-resistant TB…
