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Disease Modeling
Disease modeling is the use of a disease model, which is an animal or cells containing all or some of the pathological characteristics and mechanisms of a disease, to study that particular disease.
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SEP 03, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 28, 2015Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Carnegie Mellon University physicists Mathias Lösche and Frank Heinrich have led an international group of research ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 14, 2015Plants & Animals
The CDC estimates the incidence of foodborne illness attributed to fruit and vegetable consumption at three million case ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 10, 2015Neuroscience
Losing sleep means physiological effects and behavioral changes, and people have studied the link between sleep loss and ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 08, 2015Neuroscience
The position in which people sleep could affect how efficiently the brain clears waste, and ultimately, how the brain fu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 08, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 05, 2015Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 31, 2015Neuroscience
A special class of molecules that could have bearing on various neurological disorders, as well as potential treatments ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 25, 2015Neuroscience
Schizophrenia is elusive. In spite of decades of using brain scans, computer models and other sophisticated tools, there ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 25, 2015Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 16, 2015Videos
Have you ever wondered why global warming is such a big deal? It can affect the habitats of animals all across the globe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 14, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Diseases of the airways -- emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and cystic fibrosis -- are the second leading cause of death wo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Microbiology
Biofilms consist of surface-associated bacteria surrounded by an extracellular matrix (think dental plaque). Biofilms of ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUL 07, 2015Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 03, 2015Health & Medicine
Theranos, founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, plans to revolutionize clinical laboratory testing by offering low cost b ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 26, 2015Neuroscience
While asthma medications that suppress inflammatory signaling by immune cells or dilate airways are effective, they can ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 18, 2015Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, after ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 26, 2015Neuroscience
A study of families who reside in southwestern Pennsylvania appears to show that "exposure to fine particulate air pollu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 26, 2015Health & Medicine
Is there really a cancer cure on the horizon? Well a Jamaican scientist, Dr. Lawrence Williams seems to think so! In fac ...Written By: Kareem Heslop
SEP 03, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Carnegie Mellon University physicists Mathias Lösche and Frank Heinrich have led an international group of research
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 14, 2015
Plants & Animals
The CDC estimates the incidence of foodborne illness attributed to fruit and vegetable consumption at three million case
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 10, 2015
Neuroscience
Losing sleep means physiological effects and behavioral changes, and people have studied the link between sleep loss and
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 08, 2015
Neuroscience
The position in which people sleep could affect how efficiently the brain clears waste, and ultimately, how the brain fu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 05, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 31, 2015
Neuroscience
A special class of molecules that could have bearing on various neurological disorders, as well as potential treatments
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 25, 2015
Neuroscience
Schizophrenia is elusive. In spite of decades of using brain scans, computer models and other sophisticated tools, there
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 25, 2015
Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 16, 2015
Videos
Have you ever wondered why global warming is such a big deal? It can affect the habitats of animals all across the globe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 14, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Diseases of the airways -- emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and cystic fibrosis -- are the second leading cause of death wo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Microbiology
Biofilms consist of surface-associated bacteria surrounded by an extracellular matrix (think dental plaque). Biofilms of
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 07, 2015
Neuroscience
What is it about our brain wiring that makes it easy to pick up a pen or remember the lyrics of a song, each at the appr
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 03, 2015
Health & Medicine
Theranos, founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, plans to revolutionize clinical laboratory testing by offering low cost b
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 26, 2015
Neuroscience
While asthma medications that suppress inflammatory signaling by immune cells or dilate airways are effective, they can
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 18, 2015
Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, after
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 26, 2015
Neuroscience
A study of families who reside in southwestern Pennsylvania appears to show that "exposure to fine particulate air pollu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 26, 2015
Health & Medicine
Is there really a cancer cure on the horizon? Well a Jamaican scientist, Dr. Lawrence Williams seems to think so! In fac
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop