by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine-led study suggests that first-time transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are associated with long-term cognitive decline. Findings indicate that individuals who experienced a TIA had an annual cognitive decline similar to those who had a stroke, despite the transient...
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Attacking the roots of pancreatic cancer
by Alan Dove, Columbia University Irving Medical Center The new model provides a unique opportunity to understand how adenosquamous tumors, which are essentially unresponsive to current treatments, arise in the pancreas. In the new study, the researchers found that Hmmr gene activity is important for the growth of ASCP tumors and could be a new therapeutic...
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Attack via byways
UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG IMAGE: DIMERIC STRUCTURE OF PHOSPHOGLYCOLATE PHOSPHATASE. THE ENLARGED SECTION ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE LIGAND-BINDING POCKET IN COMPLEX WITH THE SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR CP1. CREDIT: NATALIA YUAN-CHEN As differently as cancers or autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis affect people – they all have one characteristic in common:...