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One-step test for mitochondrial diseases
Jan. 28, 2013 More powerful gene-sequencing tools have increasingly been uncovering disease secrets in DNA within the cell nucleus. Now a research team is expanding those rapid next-generation sequencing tests to analyze a separate source of DNA — within the genes inside mitochondria, cellular power plants that, when abnormal, contribute to complex, multisystem diseases
Heat Shock Proteins May Shed New Light on a Variety of Debilitating Diseases
Jan. 28, 2013 UCLA researchers, in a finding that runs counter to conventional wisdom, have discovered for the first time that a gene thought to express a protein in all cells that come under stress is instead expressed only in specific cell types
Altering eye cells may one day restore vision
Jan. 25, 2013 Doctors may one day treat some forms of blindness by altering the genetic program of the light-sensing cells of the eye, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Neuroscientists pinpoint location of fear memory in amygdala
Jan. 27, 2013 A rustle of undergrowth in the outback: it’s a sound that might make an animal or person stop sharply and be still, in the anticipation of a predator.
Misconceptions about a popular pet treat
Jan. 28, 2013 A popular dog treat could be adding more calories than pet owners realize, and possibly be contaminated by bacteria, according to a study published this month by researchers at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and the University of Guelph.
Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
Jan. 27, 2013 The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a link between these hallmark maladies of old age
In breast cancer metastasis, researchers identify possible drug target
Jan. 27, 2013 The spread of breast cancer to distant organs within the body, an event that often leads to death, appears in many cases to involve the loss of a key protein, according to UC San Francisco researchers, whose new discoveries point to possible targets for therapy.
New target for rheumatoid arthritis drugs
Jan. 25, 2013 Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a potential new target for drugs to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a protein known as IRHOM2
Research may lead to new strategies against sepsis
Jan. 25, 2013 Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine are inching closer to solving a long-standing mystery in sepsis, a complex and often life-threatening condition that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year.
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