(Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland) A groundbreaking study has revealed in great detail how enzymes in the cell cooperate to make fat.
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(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego are taking advantage of a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and sophisticated imaging technologies at the newly established In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center — one of only eight in [...]
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(Wake Forest University) Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based anti-tumor drugs that animal studies have shown to be 10 times more effective than current treatments in destroying certain types of [...]
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PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) — Cash on the barrelhead to quit smoking appears to pay off in higher cessation rates, a randomized controlled trial showed.
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(Fox Chase Cancer Center) Fox Chase researchers have demonstrated that it might be possible to treat genetic diseases, including some forms of cancer, by “rescuing” the misshapen, useless proteins produced by some mutant genes. The researchers demonstrate that manipulating the cellular amounts of a protein called Hsp70, they can give mutants another shot at [...]
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(Association for Psychological Science) What draws some people to daredevil behavior while others shy away from it? The results of a new study in Psychological Science show that high sensation seekers respond very strongly to arousing cues, but have less activity in brain areas associated with emotional regulation. These findings may indicate the way by [...]
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(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a novel way to stimulate the innate immune system of mice with Alzheimer’s disease — leading to reduced amyloid deposits and the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease related pathology — without causing toxic side effects.
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(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In research published this week in Neuron, Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, postdoctoral researcher Sara Aton, PhD, and colleagues describe for the first time how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories.
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(University of Southern California) Large-scale study is the first to link a commercially available software program to improvement on unaffiliated standard measures of memory and to better performance on everyday tasks.
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(University of Washington) Growing up with a heroin-addicted parent exposes children to a variety of detrimental experiences before the age of 18 and new research indicates that girls are four times more resilient than boys in overcoming such adverse events.
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