In most cases, prostate cancer is cured by surgical removal of the tumour and / or by radiotherapy. However, 20 per cent of patients will need treatment to remove tumour cells, but this treatment ceases to be effective after two or three years and the cancer develops further. Once this stage of the disease has [...]
As doctors grapple with increasing rates of colorectal cancers in young people, new research from the University of Michigan may offer some insight into how the disease developed and how to prevent further cancers. Researchers found that 20 per cent of young people diagnosed with colorectal cancer have an inherited genetic abnormality that predisposes to [...]
SFU Engineering Science Professor, Marinko Sarunic, has developed a high resolution retinal imaging scanner that will one day revolutionise eye care, helping ophthalmologists diagnose eye diseases before vision loss occurs. Sarunic’s high-resolution scanner is on the cutting-edge of vision science because it can produce high-resolution, 3D cross-sectional images of the retina, including individual photoreceptors, and [...]
While testing genes to treat glaucoma by reducing pressure inside the eye, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists stumbled onto a problem: they had trouble getting efficient gene delivery to the cells that act like drains to control fluid pressure in the eye. Genes can’t work until they enter a cell. Glaucoma, one of the most common [...]
The Spanish firm Sylentis has developed a compound to treat diseases of the retina, such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, which will be administered by ophthalmic drops instead of intraocular injections. The drug, which has been tested in animals, is a small interfering RNA capable of penetrating the cells of the retina and [...]
A team led by Sílvia Vilares Conde, from CEDOC-NOVA Medical School, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company, Galvani Bioelectronics, demonstrated through findings in rats that is possible to restore insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis, by modulating electrically the carotid sinus nerve, the sensitive nerve that connects the carotid body with the brain. The study is [...]
Six novel chromosomal regions identified by scientists leading a large, prospective study of children at risk for type 1 diabetes will enable the discovery of more genes that cause the disease and more targets for treating or even preventing it. The TEDDY study’s international research team has identified the new gene regions in young people [...]
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Centre of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered how high glucose levels – whether caused by diabetes or other factors – keep heart cells from maturing normally. Their findings help explain why babies born to women with diabetes are more likely to develop congenital [...]
There are currently many kinds of drugs for heart failure. Among them, the new drug LCZ696 is recommended by American guidelines as a first-line treatment for chronic heart failure. LCZ696 is better than conventional drugs at reducing cardiac death and hospitalization due to heart failure. Now, researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have revealed that [...]
A new study on two specially-bred strains of mice has illuminated how abnormal addition of the chemical phosphate to a specific heart muscle protein may sabotage the way the protein behaves in a cell, and may damage the way the heart pumps blood around the body. The authors of a report on the new study, [...]
