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Turning Back the Aging Clock Clinical Trial Article taken from: http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2016/11/turning-back-aging-clock Researchers from Caltech and UCLA have developed a new approach to removing cellular damage that accumulates with age. The technique can potentially help slow or reverse an important cause of aging. [...]
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Tumor Metabolism Targeting Drug Enters Clinical Trials Article taken from: http://www.dddmag.com/news/2016/10/tumor-metabolism-targeting-drug-enters-clinical-trials The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS) has initiated the first clinical study of a novel drug designed to starve cancer cells, IACS-10759. [...]
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Minority Inclusion in Clinical Trials: When Diversity Priorities Show Article taken from: https://www.biospace.com/News/minority-inclusion-in-clinical-trials-when/433730 Picture taken from: https://www.biospace.com/News/minority-inclusion-in-clinical-trials-when/433730 Beyond the critical need for securing more study volunteers across the board in clinical trials, a popular concern in all areas of clinical research is [...]
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Protein Plays Important Role in Preventing Pathogen Survival Article taken from: http://www.dddmag.com/news/2015/08/protein-plays-important-role-preventing-pathogen-survival Invading microbial pathogens must scavenge essential nutrients from their host organism in order to survive and replicate. To defend themselves from infection, hosts attempt to block pathogens’ access to [...]
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DNA Damage Linked with Dementia Article taken from: http://www.dddmag.com/news/2015/06/dna-damage-linked-dementia Scientists from the world-leading Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have discovered a novel pathway contributing to dementia in individuals that lack the typical signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the [...]
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Workings of Working Memory Revealed Article taken from: http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/06/workings-working-memory-revealed Our understanding of how a key part of the human brain works may be wrong. That’s the conclusion of a team at Oxford University’s Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), published in [...]
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Women With MRI Abnormality Nine Times More Likely to Get Breast Cancer Article taken from http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2015/05/women-mri-abnormality-nine-times-more-likely-get-breast-cancer Healthy women possessing a certain abnormality on MRIs are nine times more likely to get breast cancer, according to research published inRadiology. The abnormality [...]
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New Approaches to Virtual Screening Article taken from http://www.dddmag.com/articles/2013/12/new-approaches-virtual-screening#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=5550cf7acc33acc1&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1 Ivan Solt, Anna Tomin, Krisztian Niesz, ChemAxon Ltd. Virtual screening (VS) aims to reduce the enormous virtual space of chemical compounds (a practical virtual library might comprise ~1015 molecules) to [...]
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NIH study solves ovarian cell mystery, shedding new light on reproductive disorders Article taken from http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2015/niehs-06.htm Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have solved a long-standing mystery about the origin of one of the cell types that make [...]
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