Researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus have developed a new and improved method to judge the effectiveness of experimental therapies for
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Progesterone combined with lipoic acid ameliorates retinal cell damage
Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare and hereditary neurodegenerative disease which causes vision loss due to the death of photoreceptors in
Continue reading »Can arthritic dogs (and their owners) benefit from stem cell injections?
(HealthDay)—If dogs with arthritis can gain benefit from stem cell injections, maybe people can, too. That’s the opinion of an
Continue reading »Why does making new egg cells require so much cell death?
A highly detailed study of how the roundworm C. elegans forms oocytes suggests that the egg-making process leads to the
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An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that
Continue reading »Allen Institute for Brain Science database release nearly doubles mouse brain cell data
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data, tools to analyze those data and a
Continue reading »Modern life is so stressful human may need MORE than 8 hours sleep
Social media and cell phones are so stressful that we now need MORE than 8 hours sleep, expert says Sleep
Continue reading »Study finds music therapy brings effective pain relief for sickle cell patients
A new study published in the Journal of Music Therapy reveals promising findings for the application of improvisational music therapy
Continue reading »Team identifies, advances a drug that targets metabolic vulnerability and impairs cancer cell growth and survival
A drug discovered and advanced by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS)
Continue reading »Parkinson’s: Vitamin B-3 may stop brain cell death
The researchers’ paper is now published in the journal Cell Reports. In it, they report how a form of vitamin
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