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Toni BakerManmade peptides that directly disrupt the inner workings of a gene known to support cancer’s spread significantly reduce metastasis in a mouse model of breast cancer, scientists...
Christen EngelA new report published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows new evidence to support the link between brain disease and repeated concussions or blows to...
Injury or disease in combination with too little vitamin D can be bad for the window to your eyes. The three-layer, transparent cornea at the front of the eyes focuses the light...
It’s a metabolite found in essentially all our cells that, like so many things, cancer overexpresses. Now scientists have shown that when they inhibit 20-HETE, it reduces both the...
Age and obesity conspire to damage the tiny blood vessels that feed the heart, causing heart failure
Age and obesity appear to create a perfect storm that can reduce blood flow through the tiny blood vessels that directly feed our heart muscle and put us at risk for heart...
Eric JohnsonBeginning the morning of July 18, Augusta University’s Institutional Review Board will host a Research Community Forum at the Augusta Marriott hotel. The conference, co-sponsored...
Chris CurryWhen it comes to saving a child’s life from cancer, no expense is too small or too big if it can offer families more time with their son or daughter. A $100,000 gift from the...
Researchers have more evidence that males and females are different, this time in the fluid that helps protect the cartilage in their knee joints. They have found in the synovial...
A $53,000 gift from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation – an organization dedicated to raising funds for childhood cancer research – is helping an investigator at the Georgia...
While it’s widely held that tumors can produce blood vessels to support their growth, scientists now have evidence that cells key to blood vessel formation can also produce tumors...
Researchers are dissecting just what happens to the stem cells that make tissues which help keep us upright, with an eye on improving our healthspan.
HDAC inhibitors, already widely used to treat cancer, may be an effective therapy for psoriasis as well, scientists report. They have shown that HDAC3 inhibitors are particularly...
Directly injecting a tumor with an agent that activates a natural, powerful tumor suppressor enhances the drug’s capacity to attack the tumor both locally and where it spreads.
People potentially at risk for stroke are being recruited for a national study to determine whether intense medical management or interventions like surgery or stenting are best...
Arthur TakahashiResearchers at Augusta University and Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan, Italy, are investigating the benefits of treating elderly patients with virtual reality in their...
Researchers at MCG are studying a powerful pain medicine that could help relieve the vision damage of glaucoma,
Jennifer Hilliard ScottThe newest endowed chair at the state’s public medical school honors Dr. Virendra Mahesh, a trailblazer in the study of the biochemistry of steroids and reproductive biology, who...
Local researchers launch biotech startup to develop novel medical uses of tiny glass microspheres
Physician scientists want to know if a new therapeutic vaccine can prevent or reduce recurrence of cervical cancer in women at high risk for its return.
In the war on cancer, powerful chemotherapy agents are increasingly packaged with immunotherapy that primes a patient’s immune system to better battle the disease. To strengthen...