Key enzyme may be therapeutic target to treat diabetes-related blood vessel...
A key enzyme that helps our proteins fold and function properly may also be a good therapeutic target to improve blood vessel health in diseases like diabetes and atherosclerosis, scientists say.
View ArticleCleveland Clinic researcher awarded $2.6 million grant to create innovative...
Cleveland Clinic researcher Emina Huang, M.D., a colorectal surgeon in the Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute and a staff member in the Lerner Research Institute's Department of Stem Cell Biology...
View ArticleStudies identify key characteristics that may allow some obese people to have...
One little understood paradox in the study of obesity is that overweight people who break down fat at a high rate are less healthy than peers who store their fat more effectively.
View ArticleStem cells could help improve blood circulation in diabetic patients with...
Stem cells taken from muscle tissue could promote better blood flow in patients with diabetes who develop peripheral artery disease, a painful complication that can require surgery or lead to amputation.
View ArticleSUNY Downstate professor receives two awards to support research on...
Brahim Chaqour, PhD, professor of cell biology and ophthalmology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has received two awards to support research into treatment of currently incurable vision-threatening...
View ArticleBreakthrough research finds that some sugars can be good for you
Academics from the University of Sheffield and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan have discovered that sugar can in fact be good for you following breakthrough research.
View ArticleCancer drugs may offer new way to control high blood pressure
Drugs designed to halt cancer growth may offer a new way to control high blood pressure (hypertension), say Georgetown University Medical Center investigators.
View ArticleStudy identifies signaling pathway essential for growth of new blood vessels
A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) identifies a signaling pathway that is essential for angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels from...
View ArticleOvercoming Challenges of Assays of Complex Cellular Models with Real-Time...
There's a continued drive towards making in vitro assays ever more translational towards in vivo models and ultimately the clinic. This ties in with the resurgence of phenotypic screening and is a...
View ArticleScientists reveal ‘anti-metastatic surveillance’ role of Caveolin-1 protein
A new study conducted at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Belgium has labeled the protein Caveolin-1 as a high-potential pursuit in the fight against cancer.
View ArticleExcessive copper in diabetes impedes ability to make new blood vessels
It's a metal we worry thieves will steal from our air conditioners or power lines, but inside our bodies too much copper can result in a much larger loss.
View ArticleTumor growth traits can influence response to cancer drugs, study finds
Individual tumors respond differently to cancer drugs, if at all. Until now, it remained a mystery why tumors have different reactions to the exact same therapy. But a new study at the USC Viterbi...
View ArticleResearchers block common siren call of glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer
Aggressive cancers like glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer have in common a siren call that beckons the bone marrow to send along whatever the tumors need to survive and thrive.
View ArticleScientists discover new target for anti-angiogenic tumor therapy
Actively growing tumors have a high demand for oxygen and nutrients. Therefore, they stimulate the growth of blood vessels.
View ArticleNew organ-on-a-chip technology provides simple setting to study blood vessel...
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, CNRS and INSERM, report a new organ-on-a-chip technology for the study of blood vessel formation and drugs targeting this...
View ArticleGeneva researchers highlight new way to control tumor progression
For a tumor to grow, it must develop blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen. Preventing tumor vascularization is therefore an interesting anti-tumor therapy that has been explored over the last...
View ArticleNew TSRI study may provide chance to target tumors before metastasis
New research from The Scripps Research Institute may give scientists a chance to target tumors before they metastasize.
View ArticleSchizophrenia may be related to neurodevelopment changes, study says
Schizophrenia may be related to neurodevelopment changes, including brain's inability to create the appropriate vascular system, according to new study resulted from a partnership between the D'Or...
View ArticleResearchers achieve 80% reduction in liver metastasis by restricting growth...
The International Journal of Cancer has just published the results of an experimental therapy tested on mice. The research, led by the Signaling Lab research group of the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Medicine...
View ArticleBlood flow defies the laws of fluid dynamics
Researchers have developed a 3D simulation of blood cells travelling through realistic microvascular networks that has predicted several novel phenomena.
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