Italian researchers have presented yesterday (25 January), a new type of prosthesis can cure chronic spinal cord injury. The micro-implants (or neuro-prostheses) in question is of biological nature, created thanks to modern techniques for nano technology. The research team was coordinated by Dr. Fabrizio Gelain, researcher at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of [...]
Identified miR-31 plays a key role in controlling muscle differentiation, this molecule is also a strong repressor of synthesis of dystrophin. It’s called miR-31, the microRNAs identified by Italian researchers, which may be a new ally in the therapeutic approaches against Duchenne muscular dystrophy, severe genetic disorder that affects one child in 3500 and is [...]
The ANKRD-26 gene responsible for the lack of platelets, will now be easier to correctly diagnose the disease and choose the most appropriate treatment. Identified the genetic cause of a rare hereditary disease due to acute shortage of platelets, blood components responsible for the arrest of bleeding: So says a research financed by Telethon and [...]
New perspectives in the research of new drug against the most serious neurological disorders and neurodegenerative. The Department of Neuroscience and neurotechnologies the Italian Institute of Technology has written an important study published in Trends in Neurosciences (TINS), the most authoritative international journals update on Neuroscience, “compartmentalization from the outside: the extracellular matrix and functional [...]
The protein encoded by the gene HCN4, an ion channel membrane, causes the heart rate and is essential for survival. The research published by the group of Dario DiFrancesco, director of PaceLab, Laboratory of Molecular Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Milan, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, demonstrates for the [...]
Under the title “Statins as Neuroprotectants: A Comparative In Vitro Study of lipophilicity, Blood-Brain-Barrier Penetration, Lowering of Brain Cholesterol, and Decrease of Neuron Cell Death” article published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , Neuron BioPharma shows results neuroprotective capacity of statins that are currently in the market among which is the statin simvastatin business with [...]
