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Parkinson’s disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain It seems the nerve damage behind Parkinson's starts in the stomach or colon before spreading to brain cells - but we don't know what's causing it By Clare Wilson Gut reaction Microscape/Science Photo Library WE HAVE been thinking about Parkinson’s disease all wrong. The condition m...

Deirdre Glenn Head of Life Sciences, Enterprise Ireland LIFE SCIENCES A solid science base of excellent universities and researchers plus multi-nationals makes Ireland the perfect location for life science start-ups to start an export drive. Ireland has a built-in advantage when it comes to exploiting science Regardless of economic ups and downs...

Top Pharma Drugs by Sales in 2017 Top drugs by sales in 2017: Who sold the blockbuster drugs? Published on March 29, 2018 Caroline Polge-Mehta: CoFounder Grow Your Pharma Business Digitally #GenerateBusinessLeads #IncreaseYourDigitalVisibility 25 articles The year 2017 was a landmark year for pharmaceutical industries in the US and Europe, with ...

With the aim of developing a treatment for a rare and debilitating skin disorder, an Irish biopharma company and UCD have signed a gene therapy licensing deal. Amryt, the Irish-listed biopharma company that focuses on rare and so-called ‘orphan’ diseases, has announced the signing of an in-licence agreement with University College Dublin (UCD) t...

New study hopes to identify early signs of dementia, years before memory loss Researchers seeking to recruit 100 people Researchers are seeking to recruit 100 people to participate in a new large-scale study which hopes to identify early signs of dementia years before memory loss and confusion develop. Researchers are seeking to recruit 100 peop...

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A study confirms that the spaces between cells are fluid-filled, rather than tightly packed with connective tissue, but pathologists say the findings’ implications remain to be seen. Illustration of the interstitium, fluid-filled spaces supported by a network of collagen bundles, lined on one side with cells For years, scientists have fixed tiss...

Boston Scientific, CÚRAM and SFI announce medical device research collaboration A new research project between CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at National University Ireland (NUI) Galway, and Boston Scientific has been announced in Washington by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. (Photo: L-R: Dr Carmel McGroarty Mitchell, CÚRAM ind...

Macular degeneration: 'I've been given my sight back' By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightMOORFIELDS Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular degeneration. Douglas Waters, 86, could not see out of his right eye, but "I can now read the...

Stem cell transplant 'game changer' for MS patients xit player Doctors say a stem cell transplant could be a "game changer" for many patients with multiple sclerosis. Results from an international trial show that it was able to stop the disease and improve symptoms. It involves wiping out a patient's immune system using cancer drugs and then reb...