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Disease Discoveries
Oct 17, 2013

Scientists Discover Clue to Controlling HIV Virus

The finding may be useful in shortening drug treatments for those with the disease.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 15, 2013

Review Unifies Half Decade of Uterine Fibroid Research

Serdar Bulun, MD, authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that combines recent uterine fibroid research into a useful framework for scientists, clinicians, patients and the pharmaceutical industry.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 11, 2013

Inhibitor May Help Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Scientists are working to determine if a specific receptor inhibitor could be used to augment chemotherapy or prevent relapse in individuals with the disease.

Disease Discoveries
Jul 22, 2013

Study Finds Oxytocin Strengthens Memories of Both Bad and Good Events

While it’s long been known that oxytocin promotes feelings of love, social bonding, and wellbeing, only recently have scientists discovered it’s link to anxiety-producing bad memories.

Disease Discoveries
Jul 12, 2013

Interspecies Transplant Works in First Step for New Diabetes Therapy

In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine® scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce insulin, from one species to another. And the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs.

Disease Discoveries
Jul 11, 2013

Thinning of Heart Muscle Wall Potentially Reversible

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists determined that patients with coronary artery disease and regional myocardial wall thinning often have only limited scarring.

Disease Discoveries
Jun 27, 2013

Promising New Alzheimer’s ‘Drug’ Halts Memory Loss

A new class of experimental drug-like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

Disease Discoveries
May 1, 2013

Neon Exposes Hidden ALS Cells, Helps Scientists Study Why They Die

In a new preclinical study, a Northwestern Medicine® scientist has isolated the motor neurons in the brain that die in ALS and, for the first time, dressed them in a green fluorescent jacket. As a result, scientists will now be able to track what goes wrong in these cells to cause their deaths and be able to search for effective treatments.

Disease Discoveries
May 4, 2012

A Single Stem Cell Mutation Triggers Fibroid Tumors

New Northwestern Medicine preclinical research has for the first time identified the molecular trigger of uterine fibroids.

Disease Discoveries
Feb 20, 2012

Alzheimer’s Drug Could Cause Adverse Side Effects

Alzheimer’s drug may act like bad electrician, messing up wiring in brain and nervous system.

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