Just a day in the life of healthcare research — and this is just the tip of an iceberg of discoveries that were of varying degrees of significance but for whatever reason were not selected by the good folks at phys.org:

– Misplaced molecules: New insights into the causes of dementia
– Proteins with mutations in ‘prion-like’ segments considered candidates for inherited forms of ALS
– Early warning system provides four-month forecast of malaria epidemics in northwest India
– Scientists identify ‘clean-up’ snafu that kills brain cells in Parkinson’s disease
– Study finds how to shutdown cancer’s powerful master protein
– Seven genetic risk factors found to be associated with age-related macular degeneration
– Cancer vaccines self-sabotage, channel immune attack to injection site
– Study maps human metabolism in health and disease