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A new mouse could help understand how some lung cancer cells evade drug treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type. Many cases of lung adenocarcinoma are attributed to a mutation in a gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor ...


Extended youthfulness as a prevention for Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

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Therapies that can keep us younger longer might also push back the clock on Alzheimer's disease, suggests a new study of mice in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.


Low-density lipoprotein receptor reduces damage in Alzheimer's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) has received a lot of attention because of its connection with coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis, but now it appears as if it may have a beneficial influence in degenerative ...


Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Aging is the single greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that simply slowing the aging process in mice prone to ...


Newly discovered mechanism by which blood clots form

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Polyphosphate from blood platelets plays a key role in inflammation and the formation of blood clots, scientists from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown. The study, which is presented in the prestigious ...


From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

Medicine & Health / Research

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Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the recovery from heart attacks. In a study published ...


Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered

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Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, resear ...


Coaxing injured nerve fibers to regenerate by disabling 'brakes' in the system

Coaxing injured nerve fibers to regenerate by disabling 'brakes' in the system

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Brain and spinal-cord injuries typically leave people with permanent impairment because the injured nerve fibers (axons) cannot regrow. A study from Children's Hospital Boston, published in the December 10 ...


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

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For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A never-approved drug developed to prevent the death of nerve cells after a stroke can efficiently kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy and intact, an international team led by a Tel Aviv University ...



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