Medical Research Watch

A team at Johns Hopkins have identified a gene called ABCG2 that plays a role in gout, which affects nearly 3 million Americans.

There has been much research in the area of mesenchymal stem cells, which are the cells that are able to be expanded into muscle, and various types of tissues such as bone cells.

Today, there are no widely accepted laboratory test to diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease.

A research team at the University of Birmingham has published a paper indicating that it may be possible in the near future to identify muscular dystrophy in utero or shortly after birth.

Autism research recently made significant steps forward as researchers led two studies that have identified genes involved with early childhood brain circuitry.

Gene ZPB1 turns on and off and is crucial in the spread of breast cancer.

Researchers at Parion Sciences in Durham, North Carolina have “...

As we all know, bacterial meningitis can be devastating. Researchers at the University of Nottingham have now discovered how bacterial meningitis is able to attack the brain.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness, may soon have a stem cell treatment to reverse the condition.

Within the brain is an gene known as DISC1, or “disrupted in schizophrenia 1”.