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Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first describes a method to track transplanted stem cells to repair injured knees. The second shows that the incidence of psychiatric illness is strikingly high in gang members. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted that have implications for drug development. The first study identifies the localization of COX-2 which opens the way to the development of saver arthritis treatment. The second shows the development of a method to evaluate if drugs reach their target molecule. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first study identifies the neuronal circuits in the spinal cord of mice that control the ability to produce the alternating movements of the legs during walking. The second shows that a liver protein has a critical role during pregnancy. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first study describes how mathematical modeling can be used to fight cancer. The second solves the mystery of variable pathology in EEC Syndrome. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial some striking studies are highlighted, which are published in Cell. Two studies describe how bird flu viruses adapt to humans and how this offers strategies for surveillance and vaccines. The last study reports on the importance of CDK8 for the survival of tumor cells in an environment with low-oxygen. Continue reading

More than 10,000 national and international doctors and other health care professionals have downloaded the MedZine app. This milestone has been reached within one year! To celebrate this, the MedZine-team has surprised Rob Koenraads, founder of Medix Publishers, today. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first describes the discovery of a sugar polymer found on the cell surface of several pathogens that is a promising target for a broad-spectrum vaccine. The second study reports on brain cells that were grown from skin cells of individuals with Down syndrome. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first describes the role of the Dkk1 protein in hardening of arteries. The second study shows that cancer survivors with a depression have more chance to die prematurely than cancer survivors without depression. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial two striking studies are highlighted. The first describes how bacteria can be used to stop malaria. The second study sheds light on how modifications in key epigenetic markers influence human embryonic development. Continue reading

Also this week MedZine brings you the latest medical news on various medical specialisms. In this editorial a striking study is highlighted. It describes the development of a new way to make genetically altered mice to model human disease. Continue reading