News tagged with transgenic mice
Diabetes and cancer: A shared biological basis
Contrary to what you might think, cancer and diabetes appear to have some biology in common. According to a report in the September 30th issue of the Cell Press journal, Cell, a pathway that initially drew attention for it ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Researchers link Alzheimer's to lack of specific protein
A new clue to understanding one of the causes of Alzheimer's disease was unveiled in an article published Sunday (Aug. 14) in Nature Neuroscience online. Kara Pratt, a new faculty member in the University of Wyoming Neuros ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Researchers demonstrate green tea is effective in treating genetic disorder and types of tumors
A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Inducing non-REM sleep in mice by novel optogenetical control technique
Recently, optogenetics, which controls the activity of neuron using the light-activated protein, has been getting a lot of attention. This light-activated protein works like a switch of neurons by sensing specific color of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Case of mistaken identity: Study questions role of A-beta molecules in Alzheimer's disease pathology
Increasingly, researchers are suggesting that amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles may be relatively late manifestations in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Identifying earlier events ...
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Jun 28, 2011 |
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Research sheds new light on how blood clots form
Scripps Research Institute scientists have discovered new elements of the blood clot-formation process. The findings could lead to better drugs for preventing heart attacks and other clot-related conditions.
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Research offers clue to halt Huntington's disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprising findings from a study into the brains of transgenic mice carrying the Huntington's disease mutation could pave the way for treatments which delay the onset and progression of this devastating genetic ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Transcription factor clears protein clumps in Huntington's mice models
Over expressing a transcription factor that promotes the increase in number of mitochondria greatly improves the neurological function of transgenic mice models for Huntington's disease (HD), researchers today told the American ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Gladstone scientists identify process by which Alzheimer's disease creeps through the brain
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have offered new information about the events that underlie the "spread" of Alzheimer's disease (AD) throughout the brain. The research, published in the ...
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Progress being made in stem-cell therapy, scientist says
For the past two decades, scientists have been trying to fulfill the promise that stem-cell therapy holds for treating diseases such Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and many others. Their ultimate goal is to be able ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Getting off tract: Polyglutamine disease involves other regions of protein
Many genes code for proteins that have a "polyglutamine tract," several glutamine amino acid residues in a row. Nine inherited neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Scientists discover new protein that gets to the roots of obesity and osteoporosis
Here's good news for anyone trying to lose weight or has osteoporosis: Scientists from Maine are on the trail of a weight loss drug that may revolutionize how we treat these two conditions. In a new research report published ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Sense of smell holds the key to diagnosis and treatment in early stage Parkinson's disease
A fast, simple and non invasive test of the ability to smell may be an important tool to screen people who are likely to develop Parkinson's disease (PD), in which motor symptoms only become evident at a later stage of the ...
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Researchers embark on work to control the prion epidemic affecting deer in the USA
Spanish researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Bioscience, CIC bioGUNE, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky (USA), have discovered a new way to control the stability of certain types of prions ...
May 19, 2010 |
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Promising strategy for treatment of lung cancer
A research team at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown in a study that two closely related enzymes could be targets for the treatment of lung cancer. The discovery was made when the ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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