A team of researchers led by Patrik Verstreken (VIB-KU Leuven) have identified an underlying mechanism in early onset Parkinson’s. Using...
Stressed Out Interferons Reveal Potential Key to Alternative Lupus Treatment
Stressed Out Interferons Reveal Potential Key to Alternative Lupus Treatment Iwona Buskiewicz, Ph.D., left, and colleagues, including Andreas Koenig, Ph.D.,...
Newfound Effect of Cancer Drug May Expand its Use
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A drug first designed to prevent cancer cells from multiplying has a second effect: it switches...
New guidelines outline how to handle back pain
If you have an achy back, you’ve got company. As many as 80 percent of adults will have back pain....
FDA approves Northbrook company's $89,000 muscular dystrophy drug
Liam McNicholas, 12, of Lindenhurst, talks with Meghan Kostyk, an advanced practice nurse, on Feb. 9, 2017, during his biannual...
Common weed could help fight deadly superbug, study finds
Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University, in her lab with berries from the Brazilian peppertree. The red berries...
Could depression be treated with Botox?
In the largest randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study to date on the effect of OnabotulinumtoxinA (as known as Botox) on...
Prion Test For Rare, Fatal Brain Disease Helps Families Cope
Keith Negley for NPR By the time Kay Schwister got her diagnosis last summer, she couldn’t talk anymore. But she...
First blood biomarker for multiple sclerosis discovered
A blood test for determining the subtype of MS could be as little as two years away following the discovery of...
Researchers chart global genetic interaction networks in human cancer cells
Using genome-wide CRISPR screens, Wang et al. identified clusters of genes that act together to carry diverse sets of biological...