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For patients with MDS, choosing a treatment comes with a stubborn challenge: Doctors cannot reliably predict which patients will respond to treatment. One of the Holy Grails of treating cancer is to determine whether or not a therapy will work before we even get started. While further research will be…
Scientists have identified a drug candidate that blocks the uptake of glutamine, a key food source for many tumors, and slows the growth of melanoma. Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical ... Starving tumors by blocking glutamine uptake Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified a drug…
A single mutation in a gene, Kcnc3, which encodes a potassium channel in neurons, causes learning deficits in mice, UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study in PNAS. The novel mutation decreases the activity of neurons in the hippocampus, the area of the brain important for learning and memory…
"The manuscript provides additional support for the impact of disease, in this case AD, on adult neurogenesis," Fred "Rusty" Gage at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, wrote to Alzforum. "The novel twist is the cellular…
The atlas identifies how microglia change with age and disease, shoring up support for candidate risk genes. In particular, this study pinpoints USP6NL and P2RY12 as gene culprits in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, respectively. In…
Manuela Fuchs, University of Otago; Leah Smith, University of Otago, and Natalie Kyte, University of Tübingen With their spindly legs and geometric heads, they look more like miniature spacecraft than anything living on Earth. But bacteriophages, or simply phages, are among the most abundant biological entities on the planet. These…