Bioactive compounds in cocoa bean extract could be used to develop new...
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Granada (UGR) in Spain, has successfully isolated a bioactive compound present in cocoa bean extract that has proven effective in...
View ArticleResearchers study the impact of and treatment for aggrecan deficiency
On Sunday, April 28, a team of researchers received the 2019 Human Growth Award at the Pediatric Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting for their abstract, entitled "Clinical Characterization and Trial of...
View ArticleReviews provide overview of advances in the knowledge of focal and sclerotic...
Recently, extraordinary progress has been made in our understanding of the mechanisms and molecular pathways underlying focal and sclerotic bone diseases, rare disorders which have a strong genetic...
View ArticleEarly removal of some pancreatic cysts could decrease cancer risk, save lives
By analyzing medical records of 901 adults who had surgery for a certain type of precancerous pancreatic cyst, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Karolinska Institute in Sweden have updated...
View ArticleScientists pinpoint cause of fatal respiratory disorder that turns babies'...
Scientists used a gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9 to generate mice that faithfully mimic a fatal respiratory disorder in newborn infants that turns their lips and skin blue. The new laboratory...
View ArticleScientists suggest possible cell-based therapy for premature infants with...
Researchers suggest a possible cell-based therapy to stimulate lung development in fragile premature infants who suffer from a rare condition called Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, which in the most severe...
View ArticleGene modulation goes wireless hacking the "boss gene"
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have successfully used technology to wirelessly tweak the functioning of a gene FGFR1. This gene is vital in the growth of embryos into adults. Their...
View ArticleResearchers reveal molecular cause for severe multi-organ disorder
Three unrelated families on three continents (from continental Portugal, the United States and Brazil), all with healthy ancestors, had children with a very rare disease.
View ArticleSingle test can predict progression of untreated precancerous cervical disease
A single test for women has been shown to aid in predicting which cases of precancerous cervical disease will become more serious, helping with decisions on whether or not surgery is needed, according...
View ArticleNew therapy improves survival rate to 99% in preemies with chronic lung...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is the most common illness that develops in babies born premature with underdeveloped lungs.
View ArticleAdvanced method to accurately detect low-level somatic mutation in...
KAIST medical scientists have developed an advanced method for perfectly detecting low-level somatic mutation in patients with intractable epilepsy. Their study showed that deep sequencing replicates...
View ArticleUsing cloning technology to prevent esophageal cancer
Researchers at the University of Houston have replicated the genetic mechanism underlying the transformation of benign esophageal cells into a malignant tumor.
View ArticleCertain fungi increase pancreatic cancer risk, study finds
Certain fungi move from the gut to the pancreas, expand their population more than a thousand-fold, and encourage pancreatic cancer growth, a new study finds.
View ArticleStudy explores how the human lung develops at single cell level
The invention of interactive map applications has revolutionized wayfinding, providing an unprecedented level of information far beyond what printed road maps can offer.
View ArticlePremature babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia have more stem cells at birth
In the first large-scale clinical study to characterize stem cells from the umbilical cord blood and tissues of premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia – a severe, chronic lung disease –...
View ArticleResearchers study the effects of hyperoxia on the lung development of...
Charitharth Vivek Lal, M.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues have used a novel and first-of-its-kind newborn mouse model to study the effect of high oxygen concentrations, or...
View ArticlePerinatal maternal antibiotic exposure may impair lung development in...
New research in mice suggests that exposure to antibiotics before birth may impair lung development in premature infants. The study, the first to explore the gut-lung axis in prematurity, is published...
View ArticleAGA publishes clinical guideline for managing patients with gastric...
Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), which is linked to non-cardia gastric cancer, is often detected during routine endoscopy, leading to questions about how patient care should be managed.
View ArticleAirway Therapeutics receives funding to advance BPD treatment
Airway Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of biologics to break the injury cycle of inflammation for patients with respiratory and inflammatory diseases, announced...
View ArticlePreterm survival rate up by 25 percent thanks to the quality improvement program
Preterm birth occurs before 37 weeks of gestation and has been tied to many complications in the infant. In Canada, the rate of survival of very preterm infants born between 28 to 32 weeks, improved by...
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