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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
By analyzing data from 2,564 participants, a new study by epidemiologists in the Miller School’s Department of Neurology shows that people who drink diet soft…
Researchers at the University of Buffalo’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences used human neurons to help solve the genetic origins of Parkinson’s disease. Based…
While studying people that suffer from cold urticarial, researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered a genetic mutation in the gene for phospholipase C-gamma2…
For the first time ever, scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have created functional human Alzheimer’s neurons in a dish….
As obesity rises in the worldwide population, so does its effect on health, which includes joint damage, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and its complications. However,…
A new study published in Science shows that prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), are able to jump…
The real-time social networking service Twitter has yielded data that would have tracked the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti, which began in October 2010, faster…
We all know that stress is bad for us but did you know it can trigger an immune molecule in the brain that damages memory?…