Targeting HIV’s Sugar Coating: New Microbicide May Block AIDS Virus from...
University of Utah researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the sugary coating of the AIDS virus and inhibit it from infecting cells — an early step toward a new treatment to...
View ArticleGender Differences in Blood Pressure Appears as Early as Adolescence, With...
The female hormone estrogen is known to offer protection for the heart, but obesity may be taking away that edge in adolescent girls. New research from the University of California at Merced finds that...
View ArticleNew Epilepsy Gene Located in Dogs
A new epilepsy gene for idiopathic epilepsy in Belgian Shepherds has been found in the canine chromosome 37. The research of Professor Hannes Lohi and his group conducted at the University of Helsinki...
View ArticlePancreatic cancer , a habit for death
In the United States each year, over 30,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Europe sees more than 60,000 diagnoses each year. Because pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed late into its...
View ArticleTreatment of TYPE 2 Diabetes mellitus
Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there are high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.Diabetes is caused by a problem in...
View ArticleErectile dysfunction – a major sign of serious problems
More than 12 million men have type 2 diabetes and that number is growing at an alarming rate. A little talked about complication of this disease is erectile dysfunction (ED), which can lead to an even...
View ArticleNew theory for weight loss on the horizon
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have synthesized a pair of small molecules that dramatically alter the core biological clock in animal models, highlighting the...
View ArticleHuman Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the Way the Brain...
Human attention to a particular portion of an image alters the way the brain processes visual cortex responses to that image. A schematic diagram of the contrast discrimination task, showing the focal...
View ArticleHow to predict a heart attack
New findings from a landmark research study led by Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) — a collaborative program between Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) — shows a...
View ArticleBipolar disorder – the killer within
A mental illness or manic depression that is characterised between mood swings and depression. This disease was formally conceptualized by Emil Kraeplin more than 100 years ago, at which time he...
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