Academia

Researchers at Technical University of Munich recently developed a gene therapy that might cure DMD.
A new study published in Seizure gives insight into the short-term outcome of patients treated for status epilepticus in Kuopio University Hospital in Finland.
The new network is a global program of collaborations with academic institutions.
Researchers are constantly finding drug combinations that help fight drug-resistant cancers. Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center appeared to have found a new one using already approved drugs.
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
Investigators at the Case Western University School of Medicine identified a previously unknown gene and the resultant protein that may potentially slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.
Research conducted at Temple University is showing a potential new way to address the onset of Alzheimer’s disease through the use of pharmacological chaperones.
Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard tested about 4,518 drugs on 578 human cancer cell lines. They discovered that almost 50 had previously unrecognized anti-cancer properties.
The researchers essentially identified a new T-cell and its receptor that appears able to search out and kill a broad range of cancer cells, including lung, skin, blood, colon, breast, bone, prostate, ovarian, kidney and cervical cancer cells.
The research was published in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine.
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