The Cockayne syndrome is a very rare hereditary disease, which can lead among others to dwarfism, neurological impairment, premature aging
More than just a DNA repair deficiency syndrome: Impaired acetylation in Cockayne syndrome B
Home » Diseases and Conditions »
Diplomats’ mystery illness linked to radiofrequency/microwave radiation, researcher says
Writing in advance of the September 15 issue of Neural Computation, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at University
New urine dipstick test detects cause of disease that blinds millions
Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called
Study raises the standard for measuring nerve cell death: Research improves screening of experimental therapies for neurodegenerative disease
Researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus have developed a new and improved method to judge the effectiveness of experimental therapies for
Treatment for severe heartburn prevents cancer of esophagus, study shows
Medical or surgical treatment of severe heartburn prevents cancer of the esophagus, a study from Karolinska Institutet with almost one
Baby feces may be source of beneficial probiotics
Probiotics seem to be everywhere these days — in yogurt, pickles, bread, even dog food. But there’s one place that
First-of-its-kind Parkinson’s biomarker guidelines invigorates drive for treatments: Creating guidelines for discovering Parkinson’s biomarkers is key to developing treatments
Parkinson’s disease affects more than 4 million people worldwide, with numbers projected to double in the next few decades. With
A molecular switch may serve as new target point for cancer and diabetes therapies
If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A mechanism recently discovered by scientists
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports
Mechanism of fibrosis development discovered
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of unknown origin with limited treatment options. Research suggests that the