The inhibition of two proteins involved in cell division increases the sensitivity of cancer cells to the widely-used anticancer drug taxol. Researchers from the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht demonstrate this in their article published in the online version of… read more
An international team of researchers has found a new gene that is involved in the development of autism. This finding is the result of a large-scale genetic study. Apparently, it is more difficult to ‘read’ the gene in the brains of patients with autism. The results… read more
Women who have a blood marker for an autoimmune disease that mainly affects women under the age of fifty, have a 40-fold increased risk for stroke. This is the conclusion of researchers from the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in a paper published in the… read more