Search Results for: Worm

December 8, 2019December 8, 2019

Study using roundworms provides hope for treatment of Huntington’s disease

Publication date: Dec 08, 2019 The researchers found that miR-1 played an important role in preventing toxic protein aggregates by regulating a protein known as TBC-7. Stressing on the role ... Read more

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

Ancient worm reveals way to destroy toxic cells in Huntington’s disease

Huntington's Disease News

Publication date: Dec 07, 2019 Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), and colleagues from the University of Cambridge led by Professor David Rubinsztein, found that ... Read more

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

Ancient Worm Reveals Way to Destroy Toxic Cells – Potential New Therapy for Huntington’s and Parkinson’s

Parkinson's Disease News

November 10, 2019November 10, 2019

Kunitz type protease inhibitor from the canine tapeworm as a potential therapeutic for melanoma.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Nov 07, 2019 Modulating the tumor microenvironment to promote an effective immune response is critical in managing any type of tumor. Melanoma is an aggressive skin cancer and ... Read more

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Anti-worm drug inhibits tumor growth and spread in mice

Melanoma News

Publication date: Jul 09, 2019 Researchers at UNSW Sydney have discovered that a drug used for almost 40 years to treat worm infections in humans and animals can be used ... Read more

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

Worm-Like Biomimetic Nanoerythrocyte Carrying siRNA for Melanoma Gene Therapy.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: Oct 17, 2018 A major challenge in siRNA vectors is developing approaches that ensure that when administered in vivo, the vectors can target their requisite site of action. ... Read more

October 20, 2018October 20, 2018

Failure of the Anti-Inflammatory Parasitic Worm Product ES-62 to Provide Protection in Mouse Models of Type I Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: Oct 17, 2018 Parasitic helminths and their isolated secreted products show promise as novel treatments for allergic and autoimmune conditions in humans. Foremost amongst the secreted products is ... Read more

September 1, 2018September 1, 2018

Kunitz type protease inhibitor EgKI-1 from the canine tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus as a promising therapeutic against breast cancer.

Melanoma Literature

Publication date: May 25, 2018 EgKI-1, a member of the Kunitz type protease inhibitor family, is highly expressed by the oncosphere of the canine tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus, the stage that ... Read more

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019

Personalized medicine: ‘Optimizing health with data’

Precision Medicine News

Publication date: Dec 05, 2019 NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence, or AI, and metagenomics may have a large impact on the future of personalized medicine and precision diagnostics in particular, ... Read more

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

Glucose effects on polyglutamine-induced proteotoxic stress in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Huntington's Disease Literature

Publication date: Nov 27, 2019 Alterations in protein folding may lead to aggregation of misfolded proteins, which is strongly correlated with neurotoxicity and cell death. Protein aggregation has been shown ... Read more