Category: Disease Discoveries
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Stem Cell Method Predicts Patient Response to Cancer Drug
New Northwestern Medicine research has shown that reprogrammed stem cells can be used to identify patients with cancer who are likely to experience a dangerous side effect of a common chemotherapy drug.
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Children with Epilepsy Face Social Problems
Suboptimal social and educational outcomes among young adults with childhood epilepsy persist even when seizures are under control and the disease is in remission, according to a recent study.
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Untangling Genes and the Environment in Depression
Genetic factors and the environment cause depression via different molecular pathways in rats, according a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Investigating the Role of Pulmonary Veins in Asthma
MD/PhD student Sai Folmsbee aims to understand the role of the protein αT-catenin, found in heart cells, in the development of asthma.
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Decoding Signaling Pathways that Lead to Scar Tissue
The loss of a component of a protein complex responsible for attaching cells together activates genes that lead to the buildup of fibrous scar tissue seen in cardiac disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, according to a recent study.
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Rescuing Damaged Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease
Northwestern Medicine scientists shed light on a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease that has been poorly understood, the buildup of a protein called α-synuclein in the brain.
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Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer With Mechanical Force
By rotating special magnetic nanoparticles injected into brain tumors, a team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine neurosurgical oncologist Maciej (Matt) Lesniak, MD, successfully damaged tumor cells in animal models.
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HIV Is Still Growing, Even When Undetectable In The Blood
HIV still replicates in lymphoid tissue, even when it is undetectable in the blood of patients on antiretroviral drugs, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
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Targeting Upper Motor Neurons to Treat ALS
Scientists showed that it is possible to specifically modify gene expression in diseased upper motor neurons in a new Northwestern Medicine translational study.
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Graduate Student Investigates Control Mechanisms for the Cystic Fibrosis Gene
Rui Yang, a graduate student in the Driskill Graduate Program, studied the chromatin structure and expression of the gene that, when mutated, causes cystic fibrosis.
