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- Dinosaur die out might have been second of two closely timed extinctions
- New algorithm to map neurological disease
- Possible new Sorafenib therapy for the treatment of a common blood cancer
- Can gene therapy cure fatal diseases in children?
- Methane source discovered in the underbrush
| Dinosaur die out might have been second of two closely timed extinctions Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT The most-studied mass extinction in Earth history happened 65 million years ago and is widely thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. New University of Washington research indicates that a separate extinction came shortly before that, triggered by volcanic eruptions that warmed the planet and killed life on the ocean floor. |
| New algorithm to map neurological disease Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:18 AM PDT Disorders such as schizophrenia can originate in certain regions of the brain and then spread out to affect connected areas. Identifying these regions of the brain, and how they affect the other areas they communicate with, would allow drug companies to develop better treatments and could ultimately help doctors make a diagnosis. But interpreting the vast amounts of data produced by brain scans to identify these connecting regions has so far proved impossible. |
| Possible new Sorafenib therapy for the treatment of a common blood cancer Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:54 AM PDT Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that sorafenib, a drug used for advanced cancer of the kidneys and liver, could also be effective against multiple myeloma. The disease is one of the more common forms of blood cancer and is generally incurable. |
| Can gene therapy cure fatal diseases in children? Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:50 AM PDT That low bone density causes osteoporosis and a risk of fracture is common knowledge. But an excessively high bone density is also harmful. The most serious form of excessively high bone density is a rare, hereditary disease which can lead to the patient’s death by the age of only five. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are now trying to develop gene therapy against this disease.
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| Methane source discovered in the underbrush Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT Some six years ago scientific textbooks had to be updated because of the surprising discovery made by the research group led by Frank Keppler that plants produce methane in an oxygen-rich environment. At that time this was unthinkable, since it was commonly accepted that biogenic methane could only be formed during the decomposition of organic material under strictly anoxic conditions. His group has now made another fascinating new observation: fungi produce methane. |
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