Self-healing hearts

How zebrafish regenerate heart muscle cells

03-Mar-2025 - Zebrafish can completely replace damaged heart muscle cells: The affected organ becomes fully functional again. How do they manage this? Researchers at the University of Ulm have discovered that a specific cell-to-cell communication signal helps them to cope better with replication stress. This ...

Fasting acts as a diet catalyst

31-Mar-2021 - If you need to change your diet to normalize your blood pressure, you should start with a fasting cure. Scientists from MDC and ECRC describe in the journal "Nature Communications" why patients can improve their health in the long term. Every fourth German suffers from metabolic syndrome. In this ...

Antibodies to a retina protein to be used as a kidney cancer marker

Suggestion of new method for diagnosing kidney cancer

22-Jan-2019 - Sechenov University together with their German colleagues suggest a new highly sensitive, quick, and pain-free method for diagnosing kidney cancer. This method is based on measuring of the immune response to arrestin-1, a retina protein that is synthesized in the cancerous cells of ...

Artificial gene defect reveals target to fight genetic disease

13-Jun-2018 - DNA Repair is essential for a healthy organism. In every day of our lives, tens of thousands of damages occur in the genetic material of our cells. Hence, it is not surprising that a broad variety of repair mechanisms developed in the course of evolution that enables cells to quickly react and ...

Early indicators of bone loss after hip replacement discovered

08-Jun-2018 - Hip replacements relieve pain and restore mobility for hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States each year, but about 40,000 of the more than 280,000 of these procedures performed annually in the U.S. are to replace failed previous hip replacements, at a direct cost of more than $1 ...

Antibody blocks inflammation, protects mice from hardened arteries and liver disease

08-Jun-2018 - Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine discovered that they can block inflammation in mice with a naturally occurring antibody that binds oxidized phospholipids (OxPL), molecules on cell surfaces that get modified by inflammation. Even while on a high-fat diet, the ...

How a genetic mutation can interfere with the powerhouses of cells

A new disease mechanism in the mitochondria

27-Mar-2018 - Dr. Nora Vögtle, head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine of the University of Freiburg, together with her team and in cooperation with paediatricians from Europe, Australia and the USA, has identified the molecular consequences of a ...

Antibiotics resistance: Researchers succeed to block genes of resistance

24-Nov-2017 - Antibiotics are commonly used around the world to cure diseases caused by bacteria. But as the World Health Organization and other international bodies have pointed out, the global increase of antibiotic resistance is a rapidly worsening problem. And since antibiotics are also an essential part ...

Key discoveries offer significant hope of reversing antibiotic resistance

23-Oct-2017 - Resistance to antibiotics is becoming increasingly prevalent and threatens to undermine healthcare systems across the globe. Antibiotics including penicillins, cephalosporins and carbapenems are known as β-lactams and are the most commonly prescribed worldwide. In the first paper, University of ...

Mechanism involved in novel drug design with potential to treat tuberculosis

16-Oct-2017 - A team of researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa successfully used a pioneer method to chemically modify a protein's components with potential medical applications and an impact in the fight against tuberculosis. To design novel drugs it is essential to understand the ...