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Blood proteins could be the key to a long and healthy life
New research suggests that two blood proteins have been shown by scientists to influence how long and healthy a life we live.
The largest genetic...
New understanding of proteins could help delay adult blindness
Scientists have made a breakthrough in determining the cause of the most common type of blindness in adults.
A team of researchers, led by the...
Potential new target for treating endometriosis discovered
Researchers have identified a potential target to treat a painful and invasive form of endometriosis.
Endometriosis, particularly the kind associated with the ARID1A mutation, can...
Prion disease: potential treatment discovered by researchers
Researchers have discovered a possible effective treatment strategy for patients suffering from prion disease.
The study, published in Nucleic Acids Research by Oxford University Press,...
Promise of a new route of treatment for Huntington’s Disease
An enzyme has been identified that can pave the way for the development of a new route of treatment for Huntington's Disease.
Scientists at EPFL's...
Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem
Scientists have compiled over 200,000 genomes from more than 4,600 species of gut bacteria into a public database.
An international team of scientists has collated...
Advancing regenerative medicine and tissue engineering with keratin
Researchers have developed a simple method for preparing 3D keratin scaffold models to use in tissue engineering.
The researchers, from the Mossakowski Medical Research Center...
Ancient worm reveals how to destroy toxic cells in Huntington’s disease
Insights from a new study found that microRNAs are important in controlling protein aggregates.
In the study scientists have discovered that an ancient worm could...
Nerve pain drug could help restore limb function after spinal cord injury
A mouse study has shown that nerve pain drug gabapentin promotes regeneration of neural circuits.
New research in mice suggests that long-term treatment with gabapentin,...
Do ice baths after exercise really repair and build muscle?
Ice baths are strategically used by athletes as they are believed to repair and build muscle – but is this really the case?
Successful athletes such as Andy...
Uncover novel amyloidosis: understanding human diseases
Scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, have discovered a novel amyloid protein that induces amyloidosis in rats.
This new amyloid protein...
More efficient drug delivery within the brain by utilising LAT1
According to a new study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland, drug delivery within the brain can be improved by utilising LAT1,...
New family of drugs identified that could combat a range of cancers
Scientists at the University of Bath have identified a new family of drugs which inhibit the activity of a protein associated with prostate and...
How does a dementia protein become dysfunctional?
University of Queensland researchers have used super-resolution microscopy to shed a light on how dementia protein can become dysfunctional.
Using a super-resolution microscopy to observe...
Designing proteins just got easier with the specialised knowledge of video gamers
By playing the computer game Foldit, citizen scientists can now help protein researchers create novel vaccines, cancer therapies and more – is this a...
Aggregating amyloid proteins play a key part in Alzheimer’s disease
Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet have discovered that viruses can bind a special class of proteins called amyloid proteins that play a part in...
The eccentric marvels of biology: using tweezers to study FUS droplets
Did you know we can use laser ‘tweezers’ to study FUS droplets? Well, according to the University at Buffalo, USA, studying this protein can...
Discover how protein clumps damage cells in Parkinson’s
Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have found that enzymes modify tau to create tau-alpha-synuclein protein clumps on mitochondria.
Biologists studying Parkinson's disease have long wanted to...
Researchers have found a way to regrow hair on wounded skin
According to NYU School of Medicine, USA, there has been a way to regrow hair on damaged or wounded skin.
By regrowing hair strands on...
Lipid phosphatidylglycerol may help with psoriasis
According to investigators, the lipid phosphatidylglycerol, that helps to keep skin cell turnover on track, may also help with psoriasis.
Reported in the Journal of...
