Cancer-causing gene mutation KRAS, found in nearly 30 per cent of all human tumours, successfully shrunk tumours or stopped cancer growth in preclinical models of pancreatic cancer.
Ketamine, an established anesthetic and increasingly popular antidepressant, dramatically reorganizes activity in the brain, as if a switch had been flipped on its active circuits, according to a new study by Penn Medicine researchers.
Washington [US], September 18 (ANI): Bloodstream levels of a protein fragment known as endotrophin can be used to predict outcomes in individuals suffering from a prevalent kind of heart failure, suggested the researchers.
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): According to a study co-led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, bloodstream levels of a protein fragment called endotrophin can be used to predict outcomes in patients with a common form of heart failure.
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) [US], June 13 (ANI): According to a recent study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a stress protein that is overactive in several types of tumour cells also has a key role in tumour-supporting cells called fibroblasts, and can be a good target for cancer treatment in future.
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): A team of researchers have argued that the negative health effects of obesity stem not simply from an excess of fat but from the decline in its ability to respond to changes, or in other words, its plasticity.
Washington [US], December 30 (ANI): A new study by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the National Institutes of Health has found that consuming a low amount of caffeine during pregnancy could help to reduce gestational diabetes risk.