Better diagnosis and treatment of the incurable eye disease age-related macular degeneration is a step closer, thanks to the discovery of new genetic signatures of the disease. Fluorescent imaging of retinal pigment epithelium. Image credit: Dr Grace Lidgerwood / Garvan Institute Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, the Menzies Institute for...
by Garvan Institute of Medical Research Black and white electron microscopy imaging of retinal pigment epithelium cells. Credit: Dr Grace Lidgerwood Better diagnosis and treatment of the incurable eye disease age-related macular degeneration is a step closer, thanks to the discovery of new genetic signatures of the disease. Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical...
An international team of researchers led by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a cell type in the central nervous system known as oligodendrocytes might have a different role in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) than previously thought. The findings, published in the journal Neuron, could open for new therapeutical approaches to MS. MS is...
by Public Library of Science Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new analysis has uncovered a potential link between higher prostate cancer risk and genetic variants associated with higher bloodstream levels of the cholesterol-transporting molecule lipoprotein A. Anna Ioannidou of Imperial College London, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. Some factors...
Scientists have identified new genetic clues in people who have had small and often apparently ‘silent’ strokes that are difficult to treat and a major cause of vascular dementia, according to research led by the University of Cambridge and published in The Lancet Neurology. Researchers discovered changes to 12 genetic regions in the DNA of people who have had...
