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Scientists edge closer towards first pancreatitis treatment
Scientists have for the first time provided proof of principle for a drug-based treatment of acute pancreatitis a disease which is often alcohol-related and for which currently there is no treatment. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Scientists transplant photoreceptors from retina grown in a dish
Scientists funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) have carried out the first successful transplant of light-sensitive photoreceptor cells taken from a synthetic retina, grown in a dish from embryonic stem cells. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Researchers reveal how obesity gene triggers weight gain
An international team of researchers has discovered why people with a variation of the FTO gene that affects one in six of the population are 70 per cent more likely to become obese. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dementia prevalence figures in the UK show decline over past 20 years
Results from two major cohort studies reveal that the number of people with dementia in the UK is substantially lower than expected because overall prevalence in the 65 and over age group has dropped. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Medical Research Live The WormWatch Lab
The Medical Research Council in partnership with Zooniverse and the Medical Research Foundation today launches Worm Watch Lab, a new project for the MRC Centenary. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

£20 million for new health informatics research institute
The Minister for Science and Universities, Rt Hon David Willetts, has announced today that the Medical Research Council (MRC) will invest £20m capital funding in the establishment of a UK health informatics research institute. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - July 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Leading social scientist to direct MRC Unit at Glasgow University
Professor Laurence Moore has been appointed as the new Director of the Medical Research Council/Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (MRC/CSO SPHSU), University of Glasgow. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - June 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Work begins to develop life-saving liver treatment
A £6 million programme to carry out the largest-ever study to develop new treatments and improve existing therapy for patients with a lifethreatening liver disease has been announced by the Minister for Universities and Science. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - June 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Celebrate 100 years of medical breakthroughs funded by you
To celebrate 100 years of life saving science MRC research centres up and down the country are opening their doors either inviting the public in or bringing their science out to local communities to showcase the fruits of their labour. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - June 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Researchers shed light on role of genes in autism
Research carried out by Medical Research Council (MRC) researchers at the University of Oxford has uncovered a chain of genetic events that are common in individuals with autism (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - June 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Small increase in heart risk from common painkillers
With prolonged use, some widely used painkillers called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the risk of heart attacks by a small but significant amount, according to research published online in todays The Lancet. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - May 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New drug could protect from tissue damage following heart attack
Scientists led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and University of Cambridge have developed a new drug that could help reduce the tissue damage that occurs following a heart attack, stroke or major surgery. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - May 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

MRC and Wellcome Trust invest £24m in Cambridge obesity institute
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome Trust are to invest £24m into obesity research led by the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS). (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - May 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Malaria virulence is regulated by mosquito transmission
Transmission of the malaria parasite, known as Plasmodium, from mouse to mouse is far more likely to result in a severe malaria infection than one that has come from mosquito to mouse. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - May 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Her Majesty the Queen opens the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
The new building for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge will be officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen on Thursday 23 May. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - May 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news