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Mapping the DNA damage caused by smoking cigarettes

A research team headed by Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of ... cigarette smoking across the genome. Researchers have been aware of the DNA damage that smoking causes. ...

June 13, 2017 - 7:06 pm
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Induced pluripotent stem cell treatment set for its first human trial

Masayo Takahashi, an ophthalmologist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, is set to treat a human patient with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. iPS cells, unlike embryonic stem cells, are developed from adult cells and are cap ...

September 11, 2014 - 4:44 pm
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What causes inflammation in diabetic patients?

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wanted to find out the ... attacks, strokes, kidney problems, and so on. To understand what causes inflammation, the researchers ... The researchers plan to test the existing drug compounds that change the lipid composition in cells ...

November 4, 2016 - 6:10 pm
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How does the brain switch between wakefulness and sleep?

and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep or dreaming sleep. Researchers from Bern wanted to understand the ... of optogenetics, the researchers controlled the neurons from the hypothalamus with ...

December 28, 2015 - 6:52 pm
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Drug-resistant cancer responds to personalized drug combinations

Cancer researcher and physician Jeffrey Engelman of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston ... a battery of 76 different drugs; and they got encouraging results. According to the researcher, this ... inhibited another protein called SRC. Further research is required before this treatment can be used for ...

November 14, 2014 - 7:07 pm
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Cause of the mysterious Kawasaki disease discovered

affects the children in Japan, Hawaii, and Southern California, was unknown to researchers for decades. It ... farmlands of northeastern China. In recent times, the number of afflicted have risen and researchers are now ...

May 21, 2014 - 12:05 pm
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Social status has an effect on immune cells in monkeys

Researchers from the Duke University conducted a study on rhesus monkeys and discovered that ... researchers took immune cells from the monkeys and measured the activity of about 9,000 genes. It was found ... low-ranking females. Then the researchers regrouped the monkeys which led to some of the low-ranking monkeys ...

November 28, 2016 - 6:52 pm

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