Kidney disease may be written on your face
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — People with a certain kind of kidney disease have characteristic facial features that may reflect the genetic mutation they carry. Continue…
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Health & Medicine - Apr 4, 2013 8:45 - 1 Comment
Obesity and type 2 diabetes link identified
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Researchers are hopeful that obesity can be “uncoupled” from insulin resistance after finding that the immune system and a key protein link the two disorders. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 11, 2013 15:35 - 0 Comments
Use gum cells to grow ‘bioteeth’?
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Scientists say it may one day be possible to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth generated from a person’s own gum cells. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 12, 2013 12:50 - 4 Comments
24 new genes linked to nearsighted vision
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Scientists have identified 24 new genes that play a critical role in nearsightedness, a finding that could point to ways to treat and possibly prevent the condition. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 7, 2013 13:53 - 0 Comments
Ouchless sugar needles deliver ‘dried’ vaccine
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — A technique that delivers a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle could support the global fight against diseases such as HIV and malaria. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 31, 2012 11:54 - 0 Comments
In constant pain? Blame your genes
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — People who are more sensitive to pain may have a particular set of genes working against them, new research suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 27, 2012 12:13 - 6 Comments
Muscles in old mice made young again
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Researchers have identified for the first time a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during aging, and discovered that a common drug halts the process in mice. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 20, 2012 14:55 - 1 Comment
Tiny vaccine doses over time cut hay fever
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — When a new vaccine was injected repeatedly in extremely low doses but higher in the skin, the reaction to grass pollen was reduced by 90 percent. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 24, 2012 16:59 - 1 Comment
Immune signals may be target for asthma
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Scientists have found that an immune response—previously only attributed to inflammatory conditions like multiple sclerosis—has a significant link to asthma. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 23, 2012 11:31 - 3 Comments
UK seniors living with cancer to triple
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — The number of people over the age of 65 and living with cancer in the UK will triple by 2040—from 1.3 million in 2010 to 4.1 million—according to new research. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 15, 2012 15:43 - 0 Comments
Stem cells to blood vessels in two weeks
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — For the first time, reprogrammed stem cells from human skin have been used to develop an artificial functioning blood vessel outside the body. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 5, 2011 15:09 - 0 Comments
Stem cell switcharoo heals skin
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — Bone marrow cells that transform into skin cells could be used to repair damaged skin tissue. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 16, 2010 14:54 - 0 Comments
Protein suppression curbs cancer cells
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — By suppressing a protein called beta-catenin that is found in the blood, leukemia stem cells can be reversed to a pre-leukemic stage. (more…)
