Degenerative disease
hideA degenerative disease is a disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs will progressively deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits. Degenerative diseases are often contrasted with infectious diseases.
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News tagged with degenerative diseases
Life and death in the living brain: Recruitment of new neurons slows when old brain cells kept from dying
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones. Now, for the first time, University of Washington neurobiologists have interrupted ...
Stem cell research: From molecular physiology to therapeutic applications
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Stem cell research promises remedies to many devastating diseases that are currently incurable, ranging from diabetes and Parkinson's disease to paralysis. Totipotent embryonic stem cells have great potential for generating ...
New research to reduce drug side-effects
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 09, 2009 |
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They are a group of drugs which millions of people rely on to keep pain at bay but they can have unwanted side-effects which are sometimes more serious than the original health problem. Now scientists at The University of ...
Safer stem cells for therapy
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When stem cell researchers in Japan and the United States announced in 2007 that they had developed long-sought methods to return fully developed adult human cells to an embryonic-like state, ...
Genome-wide map shows precisely where microRNAs do their work
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2009 |
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MicroRNAs are the newest kid on the genetic block. By regulating the unzipping of genetic information, these tiny molecules have set the scientific world alight with such wide-ranging applications as onions ...
Elderly women with 'dowager's hump' may be at higher risk of earlier death
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hyperkyphosis, or "dowager's hump" -- the exaggerated forward curvature of the upper spine seen commonly in elderly women -- may predict earlier death in women whether or not they have vertebral osteoporosis, ...
How cells handle broken chromosomes
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After being recognized and initially processed by the cellular machinery, the broken chromosome is extensively scanned for homology and the break itself is later tethered to the nuclear envelope. Thus the ...
