News tagged with disease models


New light on bipolar treatment drugs

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lithium has been established for more than 50 years as one of the most effective treatments for bipolar mood disorder.


Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.





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Animal Models of Disease: Could Science Do Without Them?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of animals in scientific research continues to be one of the most controversial issues in scientific research. Now Viewpoints, a new series of papers published in the European Journal of Immunology, brings ...


New reagents for genomic engineering of mouse models to understand human disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study published in Disease Models and Mechanisms, reports new tools for generating specifically targeted genetic mutations in bacteria, mammalian cells and mice. The new recombinase, Dre, is similar to its predecessor, Cre, b ...


Researchers tackle influenza by studying human behavior

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created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fight influenza and other diseases by creating models that simulate the ...


Researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's ...


No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...


JAX publishes online tool for exploring autoimmune disease gene networks

JAX publishes online tool for exploring autoimmune disease gene networks

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Currently, 5-8% of the U.S. population is afflicted with an autoimmune disease. Many of these are chronic and require life-long care. Moreover, different autoimmune diseases aggregate within a single family, ...


H1N1 influenza pandemic modeling for public health action

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mathematical modelling can help inform public health policy in outbreaks such as the H1N1 pandemic, write members of the Pandemic Influenza Outbreak Research Modelling Team in Canada in a CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Jo ...


Scientists chase deadly MRSA bacteria with new models

Scientists chase deadly MRSA bacteria with new models

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, Chicago hospitals were at ground zero when the deadly MRSA bacterium, till then confined to hospitals, learned some new tricks and spilled out into the community. This year, ...


Stress signals link pre-existing sickness with susceptibility to bacterial infection

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created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mitochondrial diseases disrupt the power generating machinery within cells and increase a person's susceptibility to bacterial infection, particularly in the lungs or respiratory tract. A new study published in Disease Mo ...


Researchers find candidates for new HIV drugs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While studying an HIV protein that plays an essential role in AIDS progression, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered compounds that show promise as novel treatments for the disease.



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