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Estrogen Fuels Autoimmune Liver Damage
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A life-threatening condition that often requires transplantation and accounts for half of all acute liver failures, autoimmune hepatitis is often precipitated by certain anesthetics and antibioticsResearchers say these drugs contain tiny molecules called haptens that ever so slightly change normal
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Mast Cells Give Clues in Diagnosis, Treatment of Dengue
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
DURHAM, N.C. - A protein produced by mast cells in the immune system may predict which people infected with dengue virus will develop life-threatening complications, according to researchers at Duke Medicine and Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUSTheir study also found that in experime
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MU Discovery Helps Explain How Children Develop Rare, Fatal Disease
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
COLUMBIA, Mo. – One of 100,000 children is born with Menkes disease, a genetic disorder that affects the body’s ability to properly absorb copper from food and leads to neurodegeneration, seizures, impaired movement, stunted growth and, often, death before age 3Now, a team of biochemistry rese
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Scientists Find Mutation Driving Pediatric Brain Tumors
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
BOSTON - A type of low-grade but sometimes lethal brain tumor in children has been found in many cases to contain an unusual mutation that may help to classify, diagnose and guide the treatment of the tumors, report scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteThe researchers led a study of pediatric
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Researchers Look to Mathematics, Nature, to Understand the Immune System and Its Role in Cancer
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Can the patterns in tree branches or the meandering bends in a river provide clues that could lead to better cancer therapiesAccording to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, these self-similar, repeating patterns in nature known as fractals help scientists bette
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Short Test Finds Autism Traits in Families
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A 36-question survey detects features of autism in as much as 23 percent of parents of children with autism and 9 percent of control parents, researchers reported 20 February in Autism Research1Researchers designed the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ) in 2007 and tested it on 150 partic
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Frequently Used Biologic Agents Might Cause Acute Liver Injury
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Bethesda, MD, A commonly used class of biologic response modifying drugs can cause acute liver injury with elevated liver enzymes, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. Patients
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Thymus Teaches Immune Cells to Ignore Vital Gut Bacteria
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The tiny thymus teaches the immune system to ignore the teeming, foreign bacteria in the gut that helps you digest and absorb food, researchers sayWhen immune cells recognize essential gut bacteria as foreign, inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disea
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Cardio Could Hold Key to Cancer Cure
Monday, April 29, 2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Regular exercise has been proven to reduce the chance of developing liver cancer in a world-first mice study that carries hope for patients at risk from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCCThe research announced at the International Liver Congress™ 2013
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Hitting ‘reset’ In Protein Synthesis Restores Myelination, Suggests New Treatment for Misfolded Protein Diseases, Such as CMT, Alzheimer’s
Monday, April 29, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A potential new treatment strategy for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is on the horizon, thanks to research by