Young, Apparently Healthy — And At Risk of Heart Disease

Atherosclerosis – or buildup of fat in the walls of arteries ? is thought of as a disorder of older people but it affects a large number of young men and women, according to a new Heart and Stroke Foundation study. “The proportion of young, apparently...

Study Shows Answers for Treating Obesity-related Diseases May Reside in Fat Tissue

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have shown that the quality – not just the quantity – of adipose, or fat, tissue is a significant contributing factor in the development of inflammation and...

Researchers Discover Protein That Might be Key to Cutting Cancer Cells’ Blood Supply

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a protein that guides blood vessel development and eventually might lead to a treatment to keep cancer cells from spreading. The researchers showed in mice that the Ras interacting protein 1 (Rasip1)...

Cash Boost for UK Manufacturing Research

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced that the first three state of the art manufacturing research centers funded under a new £70M Government investment will be based at Southampton, Loughborough and Brunel universities, to help UK businesses...

Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities

A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable matrix could eliminate some of the operations...

Growing Cartilage From Stem Cells

Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering and his colleagues.