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People with alcohol dependency lack important enzyme

30 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

A research group has identified an enzyme, PRDM2, whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe when alcohol dependence develops...

NIH to research health disparities of chronic diseases

25 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served rural populations, people of less privileged socio-economic status, along with groups subject to discrimination who have poorer health outcomes often attributed to being socially disadvantaged...

Stria vascularis ear structure discovery could lead to hearing loss treatment

24 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

The stria vascularis is essential for normal hearing and is involved in maintaining the endocochlear potential - a difference in charged molecules between compartments of the inner ear which act like a battery to power the transmission of sound signals from the ear to the brain...

Researchers identify gene associated with age-related hearing loss

18 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

A large screening programme has identified several genes associated with age-related conditions including hearing loss, retinal degeneration and osteoarthritis. The animal study may lead to studies of the equivalent human gene and help develop screening programmes to identify the risk of developing an age-related condition many years before symptoms appear...

Sea sponge reduces pancreatic tumour size

18 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

A deep-water marine sponge collected at Fort Lauderdale's coast contains leiodermatolide, a natural product that inhibits the growth of cancer cells as...

Leukaemia blood testing unearths vesicle discovery

17 August 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

Cancerous acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells produce and release special structures that can be traced in the blood, and therefore could have major implications on the diagnosis, monitoring, drug delivery and treatment of childhood leukaemia...