New Imaging Research Shows Increased Iron in the Brain in Early Stages of MS

While it's been known for over a century that iron deposits in the brain play a role in the pathology of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), new imaging research from Western University (London, Canada) helps to answer the question of whether these accumulations are a cause or consequence of the disease. More...

Need Different Types of Tissue? Just Print Them!

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs. More...

Long-Term Obesity Associated With Poorer Pancreatic Cancer Survival

New results from a prospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that patients with a body mass index (BMI) in the obese range live on average two to three months less after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, compared with healthy weight patients, even after adjusting for factors that are known to predict survival for patients with this disease, such as age and disease stage. More...

Two Forms of Parkinson's Disease Identified

Why can the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease vary so greatly from one patient to another? More...

Researchers Uncover Keys to Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA

University of Notre Dame researchers Shahriar Mobashery and Mayland Chang and their collaborators in Spain have published research results this week that show how methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) regulates the critical crosslinking of its cell wall in the face of beta-lactam antibiotics. More...