Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) - inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract - have puzzled the scientific community for decades. Ten years ago, researchers recognized that both genes and the environment contributed to these diseases but knew little about precisely how...
Explosive advancement in human genome sequencing opens new possibilities for identifying the genetic roots of certain diseases and finding cures. However, so many variations among individual genomes exist that identifying mutations responsible for a specific disease has in many cases proven an...
Actress Jennifer Esposito, who starred on the CBS drama "Blue Bloods," has Celiac Disease, and according to her, it cost her a job. The actress, who was diagnosed recently and has since gone on a*mission to educate others about gluten-free products and Celiac Disease, says that she requested a...
University of Iowa researchers have previously shown that an enzyme called CaM kinase II plays a pivotal role in the death of heart cells following a heart attack or other conditions that damage or stress heart muscle. Loss of beating heart cells is generally permanent and leads to heart...
Sitting around for long periods raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and premature death, even for people who have the amount of daily physical activity recommended by health professionals. These were the conclusions of a large piece of research covering nearly...
Do you let your dog lick you all over your face? I admit it; I do. But I probably shouldn't, because there's new evidence that humans can catch gum disease from dogs. Ew. More »Gross! Letting Your Dog Kiss You Could Lead To Gum Disease is a post from: Blisstree
A study by scientists from the Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) suggests that spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease in infants and children, results primarily from motor circuit dysfunction, not motor neuron or muscle cell dysfunction, as...
For the first time, scientists have visualised an interaction between gluten and T-cells of the immune system, providing insight into how coeliac disease, which affects approximately 1 in 133 people, is triggered. Published today in Immunity, the discovery was led by Dr Hugh Reid and Professor...
Chronic kidney disease changes the composition of intestinal bacterial microbes that normally play a crucial role in staving off disease-causing pathogens and maintaining micronutrient balance, according to UC Irvine researchers. This profound alteration of the gut microbial population may...
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers, experts in revealing molecular structure by X-ray crystallography, have identified two new small "chaperone" molecules that may be useful in treating the inherited metabolic disorder known as Schindler/Kanzaki disease. This offers hope for...
The high rate of non-diabetic kidney disease in African-Americans is strongly associated with variations in a particular gene. Yet, not everyone who inherits these variations develops the disease. Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center are working to find out why. In a study published...
Many diseases, including cancers, leave genetic clues in the body just as criminals leave DNA at the scene of a crime. But tools to detect the DNA-like sickness clues known as miRNAs, tend to be slow and expensive. Now a chemist and a biologist from University of Copenhagen have invented a...
TiGenix (Euronext Brussels: TIG) have announced the publication in the International Journal of Colorectal Disease of the Phase I/II study of Cx601: Expanded allogeneic adipose-derived stems cells (eASCs) for the treatment of complex perianal fistula in Crohn's disease: results from a...
An older medication originally approved to treat heart problems eases the symptoms of a very rare muscle disease that often leaves its sufferers stiff and in a good deal of pain, physicians and researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings are good news not...
Efforts to treat disorders like Lou Gehrig's disease, Paget's disease, inclusion body myopathy and dementia will receive a considerable boost from a new research model created by UC Irvine scientists. The team, led by pediatrician Dr. Virginia Kimonis, has developed a genetically modified mouse...
Crafting public health messages about a disease may create stigmas that influence how likely people are to endorse certain interventions, such as isolating infected persons, forcing treatment on them and mapping their location, according to a Penn State researcher. Rachel Smith, associate...
The statistics show that efforts to reduce heart disease deaths are successful, with mortality now falling in most of the continent. At the same time, the report shows the huge burden CVD presents to Europe's health, and suggests that underlying factors may cause CVD to increase in the near...
The British Dental Health Foundation believes new scientific research presented is a further indication of a possible link between pancreatic cancer and gum disease. The latest research, presented in the journal Gut, found one of the bacterium key in the development of gum disease was associated...
Mitt Romney has gone in all kinds of directions when asked about his position on health care, but we weren't aware that he was campaigning so hard against Lyme Disease. Apparently, that's his campaign's tactic for winning over concerned moms in suburban Virginia, where deer and other wildlife...
The human body is proficient at making collagen. And human laboratories are getting better at it all the time. In a development that could lead to better drug design and new treatments for disease, Rice University researchers have made a major step toward synthesizing custom collagen. Rice...