How can scientists coax microglia to chew up more Aβ? In the November Alzheimer’s & Dementia, a group led by Rudolph Tanzi at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, revived an old idea. They ...
Scientists have found how human cells distribute and maintain their cholesterol levels, aiding in research in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as cardiovascular diseases ...
July 8 -- TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty genes that play major roles in controlling cholesterol within cells have been identified by German researchers, who said that some of the genes may ...
LONDON, September 5 (SPIS MedWire). Cholesterol homeostasis is regulated in large part by retinoid X receptors (RXR), according to animal research reported in the journal Science. A multicenter US ...
Melanoma is one of the most dangerous common skin cancers. It starts in melanocytes, the skin cells that make melanin, the pigment that gives skin its colour. Cancer doesn’t appear overnight. A normal ...
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and The Scripps Research Institute, with colleagues in Los Angeles and Japan, report that ...
Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden report that immune cells in the liver react to high cholesterol levels and engulf excess cholesterol that can otherwise cause damage to arteries.
Hyperthermia, a cancer treatment using controlled heat to kill tumor cells, shows promise but faces limitations due to some tumor cells' unexpected heat resistance. Researchers from Japan have now ...
The results of a phase three clinical trial for a cholesterol-lowering drug have shown that this drug, called enlicitide, can reduce the levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by 60% ...