Researchers from Imperial College London have shown that a blood test can pinpoint the underlying cause of brain injury in newborns. Their study looked at babies with a type of brain injury caused by hypoxia – a lack of oxygen. It found that patterns of gene expression that are detectable in the blood can point […]
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UQ study explains link between sleep apnoea and dementia: Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered a link between obstructive sleep apnoea and an increased risk of developing dementia. Professor Elizabeth Coulson from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and School of Biomedical Sciences and her team found a causal relationship between a lack of oxygen […]
New research by scientists at the University of Bradford, the University of Sheffield and Oxford University established a link between cancer cells which are deprived of oxygen – a state known as hypoxia – and the production of an enzyme called senataxin, which aids DNA repair. Professor Sherif El-Khamisy, Director of the Institute of Cancer […]
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