Copper deficiency diseases can be devastatingSymptoms can range from crippling neurological degeneration in Menkes disease – a classic copper deficiency disease – to brittle bones, anaemia and defective skin pigmentation in gastric bypass patients. Unfortunately, very little is known a

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As part of the £1.5 million project, researchers are now testing the drug to determine how the treatment could progress to clinical trialsThe drug is made from simple organic molecules and will be cheaper to mass produce compared to existing therapiesMalaria is the world's most deadly paras

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BOSTON -- In one of only two studies of its kind, a study from researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts demonstrates that non-viral gene therapy can delay the onset of some forms of eye disease and preserve visionThe team de

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Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have successfully used human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to treat rodents afflicted with Parkinson's Disease (PD). The research, which validates a scalable protocol that the same group had previously developed, can be used to manufacture

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New Rochelle, NY -- The easy accessibility of the eye and the established link between specific genetic defects and ocular disorders offer hope for using gene therapy to provide long-term therapeutic benefitTwo reports in the current issue of Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal published b

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Two University of Texas at San Antonio biology researchers have been awarded a patent for their work to create a vaccine against tularemiaThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Karl Klose, director of the UTSA South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Bernard Arulanandam, asso

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WASHINGTON -- Although the use of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation has lead to 13 live births in women with lymphoma or solid tumors, this method of fertility preservation may be unsafe for patients with leukemia, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal

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A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was reported in the 1920sThe landmark finding from the National Pr

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Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor – and one of the deadliestEven as doctors make steady progress treating other types of solid tumor cancers, from breast to prostate, the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, called a glioblastoma multiforme or GBM, has

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A team of researchers has discovered new evidence that Parkinson's disease may have an infectious or autoimmune origin"Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease" appears online in Nature GeneticsThe study was conducted by the NeuroGeneti

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