Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered details into a surprising—and crucial—link between BRCA1 brain development and a gene whose mutation is tied to breast and ovarian cancer. Aside from better understanding neurological damage associated in a small percentage of people…
Green Tea Boosts Your Brain
Green tea is said to have many putative positive effects on health. Now, researchers at the University of Basel are reporting first evidence that green tea extract enhances cognitive functions, in particular the working memory. The Swiss findings suggest promising clinical…
Jamming a Protein Signal Forces Cancer Cells to Devour Themselves
Under stress from chemotherapy or radiation, some cancer cells dodge death by consuming a bit of themselves, allowing them to essentially sleep through treatment and later awaken as tougher, resistant disease. Interfering with a single cancer-promoting protein and its receptor can…
Fertility Drugs Do Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Women who took clomiphene citrate (brand name Clomid) or gonadotropins as a part of fertility treatment did not experience an increased risk for breast cancer over 30 years of follow-up, compared with women who were not treated with these medications, according…
Ketamine Can Treat Severe Depression
The first UK study of the use of ketamine intravenous infusions in people with treatment-resistant depression has been carried out in an NHS clinic by researchers at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford. “Ketamine is a promising…
Experimental Cancer Drug Reverses Schizophrenia in Mice
Johns Hopkins researchers say that an experimental anticancer compound appears to have reversed behaviors associated with schizophrenia and restored some lost brain cell function in adolescent mice with a rodent version of the devastating mental illness. The drug is one of…
Breakthrough in Stem Cell Manufacturing Technology
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance that could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in the world of regenerative medicine. Cell therapy is an exciting and rapidly developing area of medicine in which stem cells have…
Study Shows Marital Status Affects Risk of Heart Disease
Marriage is criticized for many things—justly and unjustly—but not heart disease, according to findings of a recent study conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center. Analysis of surveys of more than 3.5 million American men and women, administered at some…
Cancer cells explode with new treatment
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a substance called Vacquinol-1 makes cells from glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of brain tumor, literally explode. When mice were given the substance, which can be given in tablet form, tumor growth…