What Is Infant Jaundice? What Causes Infant Jaundice?
Infant jaundice, also known as physiological jaundice, is a condition in which the skin, and sometimes the sclerae (the white part of the eye), of the baby appear yellow.
The color of the skin and sclerae varies depending on levels of bilirubin in the bloodstream. Bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin) is the substance that causes yellowing of [...]
20th Anniversary Of Theoretical And Computational Biophysics Group Marked By Symposium
In 1989, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications was barely three years old, its first massively parallel computer, Connection Machines’ CM-2, was just being installed, and physics professor Klaus Schulten, newly arrived at the University of Illinois, launched the Theoretical Biophysics Group (TBG). His overarching vision was to use the analytical tools of physics and [...]
Scientists Uncover New Potential For Targeted Cancer Treatment
Breakthrough Breast Cancer scientists have discovered that a new cancer treatment could be used for more types of cancer than previously thought, potentially helping thousands of cancer patients in the UK each year.
PARP inhibitors, including the new drug, olaparib, which Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) scientists helped develop, are [...]
Endothelin: International Conference September 9-12
One of the most intriguing developments in recent medical science is the discovery of the human chemical endothelin (ET). Since its detection in 1988, over 22,000 scholarly articles (about 3 per day) have been published on the subject, a new class of drugs has been developed, and 25 Phase I, II and III clinical trails [...]