A cheap and simple way of making vaccines stable – even at tropical temperatures – has been proven to work by scientists at Oxford UniversityThe British technology, developed by specialist manufacturer Nova Bio-Pharma Technologies, removes the need for fridges, freezers and associated

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Researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and University of Stockholm have created a computer modelling of the structural malfunctioning of the ApoE4 protein when it enters into contact with the Amyloid beta molecule, the main cause of Alzheimer's diseaseThe research, published

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Physicians and scientists agree: If we cannot entirely prevent cancer, the next best thing is to find it earlier to augment the chances of a successful fightThe good news is that there may soon be a new weapon in the battle against the so-called "worst" cancer — cancer of the pancreas. A mul

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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Migraine is seen more frequently in women with multiple sclerosis (MS) than those without, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010"While having a history of migrai

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Research published in the February edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology sought to assess the overall efficacy of split-course palliative chest radiotherapy (RT) for symptom relief in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancerAdditionally, researchers investigated the impact the regim

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DALLAS – Feb. 15, 2010 – Simple urine tests for four proteins might be able to detect early kidney disease in people with lupus, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in an animal studyAlthough it might take years before such tests could be used clinically, the findi

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LOS ANGELES -- Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., director of the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute, is receiving the American Academy of Neurology Sheila Essey Award for his research on ALS (amyothrophic lateral sclerosisALS, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegener

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By unraveling the mysteries that exist within the molecular composition of mosquitoes, a team of Kansas State University researchers is trying to discover how the insects survive a parasite that causes malaria in humansKristin Michel, K-State assistant professor in the Division of Biology, has bee

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Montreal -- Scientists battling malaria have earned a major victoryAccording to a Nature Genetics study, an international group of researchers has used genomics to decode the blueprint of Plasmodium falciparum – a strain of malaria most resistant to drugs that causes the most deaths around t

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LA JOLLA, Calif. --  An international team of investigators at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham, formerly Burnham Institute for Medical Research), Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences and other organizations have discovered that TKS4, a protein implicated in

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