ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A new study shows that a sleep disorder may be a sign of dementia or Parkinson's disease up to 50 years before the disorders are diagnosedThe research is published in the July 28, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of NeurologyUsin

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STANFORD, Calif. -- Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the death of key nerve cells whose loss causes Parkinson's diseaseThis discovery not only may explain how a genetic mutation linked to Parkinson's causes the cells' deat

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Researchers in Heidelberg and Stanford have discovered a new signalling pathway of brain cells that explains how widely used antihypertensive drugs could keep inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) in checkThe peptide angiotensin not only raises blood pressure but also activates the immunological

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A test developed by a Japanese researcher could one day allow doctors to know which of their chronic myeloid leukemia patients could become resistant to the standard drug used to treat the form of blood cancerA number of drugs now being developed are intended for use in patients who are resistant

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Frederick, MD -- Akonni Biosystems®, a molecular diagnostics (MDx) company focused on developing and manufacturing rapid, high multiplex solutions for infectious disease testing, today announced receipt of a $435K grant from the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at T

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Minneapolis, MN -- Current research suggests that taking morphine can block new blood vessel and tumor growthThe related report by Koodie et al, "Morphine suppresses tumor angiogenesis through a HIF1α/p38MAPK pathway," appears in the August 2010 issue of the American Journal of PathologyMor

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The identification of an oncogene (called BRF2) specific to lung squamous cell carcinoma suggests that genetic activation of this oncogene could be used as an identification marker for this type of lung cancerFurthermore, this oncogene may provide a new target for therapeutics for lung squamous ce

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Rogier van Doorn and colleagues from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam present a Learning Forum article in this week's PLoS Medicine that describes three unusual cases of patients with listerial meningitisListeriosis is a foodborne infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes that presents with a sepsis-li

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Achromatopsia is a hereditary eye disease for which there is as yet no effective treatmentThe condition is associated with complete lack of color vision, poor visual acuity, hypersensitivity to light and unintentional jittery movement of the eyes (nystagmus). It is due to genetic mutations that pr

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Munich, Germany -- Researchers have devised a method to create patient-derived cells that can mimic the phenotype that causes long-QT syndrome, which may help in the development of new drug therapies for the disease [1Long-QT syndrome type 1 is caused by a mutation in the KCNQ1 gene, which encodes

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