Mice with late-stage symptoms showed improvement in memory loss and reduced brain plaque after experimental treatment, ...

Bladder cancer is common accounting for over 12 000 cases each year in the UK. The muscle-invasive form of the disease is commonly treated with either radical cystectomy or radical radiotherapy. The ...

Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or Glut1) could be a new way to fight kidney disease, according to a study ...

A deficiency in the protein responsible for moving glucose across the brain's protective blood-brain barrier appears to intensify the neurodegenerative effects of Alzheimer's disease, according to a ...

A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an “inborn metabolic error”: an inability to produce vitamin ...

In three hours, Paul Shelsta would take the field for his first football game as offensive coordinator for the Hartford Union High School Orioles. That night in August 2016 was to be a big moment for ...

A rare metabolic disease that caused hundreds of seizures daily for a 6-year-old is now significantly under control as part of a clinical trial that uses a medicinal oil for treatment. Within hours, ...

A girl with a rare genetic condition has finally spoken her first words thanks to a diet that involves eating four tubs of cream cheese a week. Three-year-old Fields Taylor from Melton Mowbray in ...