by Anglia Ruskin University Cataract in human eye. Credit: Wikipedia. A revolutionary new treatment for cataracts has shown extremely positive results in laboratory tests, giving hope that the condition, which currently can only be cured with surgery, could soon be treated with drugs. The results have been published today in the peer-reviewed journal Investigative Ophthalmology and...
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER DIABETESFORSCHUNG DZD IMAGE: BEIGE ADIPOCYTES WITHIN WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE (BEIGE ADIPOCYTES STAINED WITH UCP-1 IN GREEN. LIPIDS ARE STAINED IN RED AND F-ACTIN OUTLINING CELLS ESPECIALLY BLOOD VESSELS IN GREY, DNA IST BLUE). CREDIT: RUTH KARLINA The protein Asc-1 regulates whether fat-burning beige or fat-storing white adipocytes are formed, which can have...
by Children’s Cancer Institute Australia Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health Every year around 20 Australian children die from the incurable brain tumor, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). The average age of diagnosis for DIPG is just seven years. There are no effective treatments, and almost all children die from the...
Pioneering international research has found stem cell treatment in people with active multiple sclerosis stabilises the disease and improves disability. The first ever international large scale randomised trial into autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) has shown that the treatmentstabilised the disease and improved disability in people who had experienced...
