New guidelines from Michigan Medicine researchers and the American Diabetes Association equip physicians with better information on the condition An estimated 60 to 70 percent of people with diabetes develop some form of diabetic neuropathy, or the chronic nerve damage diabetes causes, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. With...
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Drug candidate stabilizes essential transport mechanism in nerve cells
NAP blocks formation of ‘tangles’ that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease Tau is a key brain protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases. Aggregates of Tau known as “neurofibrillary tangles” have been associated with nerve cell death and cognitive decline. An important new Tel Aviv University study published in Molecular Psychiatry pinpoints the mechanism harnessed by...
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Study unveils new way to starve tumors to death
Blocking cancer cells’ metabolism may make treatments more effective, less toxic Unlike a healthy cell, a sarcoma cell (above) relies on environmental sources of arginine, an important protein building block. Remove environmental arginine and the cell must begin a process called autophagy, or ‘self-eating,’ to survive. A second hit to its survival pathways then kills...
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Researchers Turn To Artificial Intelligence To Reach New, Previously Unachievable Cancer Outcomes
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to gain understanding into the biophysics of cancer. A machine learning platform predicted a trio of reagents capable of generating a one-of-a-kind cancer-like phenotype in tadpoles. The study, conducted by researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences, the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and the University of Maryland,...
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UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF WHY CANCER CELLS SURVIVE AND THRIVE
Some cancer cells have a trick up their sleeve to avoid cell death: boosting maintenance of telomeres, the protective “end caps” on chromosomes, a research team led by Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Professor Roel Verhaak reports in Nature Genetics. The findings open avenues for functional studies that may yield insight into how to steer cancer cells away from immortalizing...
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Diabetes or its rapid deterioration can be an early warning sign for pancreatic cancer
Patients and their doctors should be aware that the onset of diabetes, or a rapid deterioration in existing diabetes that requires more aggressive treatment, could be a sign of early, hidden pancreatic cancer, according to research presented at the European Cancer Congress 2017 today (Monday). Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in...
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This $90 wristband zapped away our VR nausea
New Atlas tests a wearable that claims to reduce or cure nausea and motion sickness, pitting it against the most stomach-churning VR games Before we’d tried much virtual reality, we imagined most VR experiences would involve physically sitting while virtually moving. Unfortunately, though, those kinds of games can trigger nausea for many (if not most)...
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Locked-in man uses a mind-reading device to reject his daughter's boyfriend request to marry her, while also revealing he is HAPPY with his life
Brain-computer interface can detect blood oxygen levels and brain activity Participants were asked yes/no questions and asked to think the answer The device correctly relayed what they were thinking 70 per cent of the time A ‘mind-reading’ device has enabled a patient with locked-in syndrome to reject his daughter’s boyfriend request to marry her. The...
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Autism Researchers Discover Genetic ‘Rosetta Stone’
Distinct sets of genetic defects in a single neuronal protein can lead either to infantile epilepsy or to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), depending on whether the respective mutations boost the protein’s function or sabotage it, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers. Tracing how these particular genetic defects lead to more general...
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Breath test could save lives by diagnosing deadly cancers earlier
A simple breath test could save lives by diagnosing deadly cancers early. British research shows the breathalyser is 85 per cent accurate at identifying stomach and oesophageal cancers, which between them affect 16,000 men and women a year. Both types of cancer are often diagnosed late, leading to poor survival rates. Scientists hope the new breath...