Whatley's frustrated widow carefully pulled the pristine 1964 Fender Stratocaster from under their bed and put it up for auction on eBay, pledging half the proceeds for Merkel cell carcinoma research and the rest to pay his medical bills. She

The experiment suggests it may be possible to take a small sample of skin and turn it into a transplant perfectly matched to patients with Parkinson's and other diseases, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

This finding was very surprising to us. We had not ever thought that dyslexics' brains are different for children who read in English and Chinese," said lead author Li-Hai Tan, a professor of linguistics and brain and cognitive sciences at

Several studies published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine add heft to the notion that getting enough sleep has wide-ranging health benefits. Previous studies have shown that older children and adults who get too little sleep are

Depression and hearty disease often occur simultaneously, and inflammation has been associated with both. "However, not all individuals with depression have elevated levels of inflammation. Those who do could be at highest risk for cardiovascular disease," the researchers said. For

Last year, scientists in Japan and America developed induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, which can apparently transform into any of the 200 or so different cells found in the body. Now, Dr Willy Lensch and colleagues at the Harvard Medical

The finding may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Led by Kathleen Sluka, Ph.D., the research team conducted the study on mice and found that

Dolan, 35, underwent gastric bypass surgery to get his weight under control. That, along with a healthier diet and exercise, helped transform him from a discontented civilian to a proud member of the Carlisle police force. "The heaviest I ever

In the study, which linked examined pack straps and adults, indicate that even light loads of 26 pounds can decrease upper extremity blood flow. n some professions, such as the military, firefighting and mountain rescue, the packs may equal as

This is the same gene that was first identified in Finnish families ascertained for familial combined hyperlipidemia, a common dyslipidemia predisposing to coronary heart disease. Kati Kristiansson, a member of the research group of Professor Leena Peltonen at the University

In the study, led by Marius Wernig, a postdoctoral researcher in Whitehead Member Rudolf Jaenisch's lab, the researchers used rodent model for transplanting the neurons taken from reprogrammed adult skin cells, which were successfully integrated into foetal mouse brains and

The study led by Catriona H.M. Jamieson, M.D. Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego and Director for Stem Cell Research at Moores UCSD Cancer Center, identified an inhibitor that can cease over-proliferation of blood

The study advocates that these mutations might act as potential drug targets for the treatment of these diseases and also a number of other neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. "Now we have a direct link between the genetics and the clinical

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have managed to genetically disarm the lethal Ebola virus, an emerging public health concern in Africa and a potential biological weapon. The virus ranks among the most feared of exotic pathogens and due to

Chronic pain can be successfully treated with a novel targeted gene therapy, according to researchers in the Department of Medicine and Department of Neurosciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The rat-model based study, led by Dr. Andreas Beutler, MD,

The discovery of 100 million year old fossilized jawbones of a platypus like animal suggests that egg-laying mammals such as the platypus might have evolved more slowly than other mammals. According to a report in Nature News, the fossil found