Location: San Juan, Spain
For the moment no name, a new neurological syndrome was identified and
characterized by an international team of researchers including Dr. Salvador
Martinez of the Instituto of Neurociencas of San Juan Alicante (CSIC).
Consequence of a...
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Location: Montreal, Canada
We knew that reducing the intake of calories, for example because of the
reduction of the amount sugar ingested, could prolong life. According to a new
study by researchers at the University of Montreal whose results are published
in the...
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Location: COLUMBUS, United States
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role
in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet.
The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day
be a therapeutic...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: University of Bonn, Germany
Researchers at the University of Bonn in cooperation with American and Israeli colleagues have identified a molecule that may be responsible for the recurrence of seizures. According to statistics, a German victim is over 20, during his life,...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Emerging computer technologies will change our lives for the
better by 2020. But we need to retain control to ensure that these developments
do not impact negatively on basic human values, according to a new report...
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Location: University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to
the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only
way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways
that...
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Location: University of California , Los Angeles, United States
It's good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we
live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Many Alzheimer's researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as
an...
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Location: University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
A brain chemical that makes us sleepy also appears to play a central role in
the success of deep brain stimulation to ease symptoms in patients with
Parkinson’s disease and other
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Location: Duke University, United States
Scientists at Duke University have created
the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a
modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine
learning –...
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Location: Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, United States
MIT scientists have devised remotely
controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field,
release drugs to attack tumors. The innovation, reported in the Nov. 15 online
issue of Advanced...
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Location: Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, United States
An immune
system messenger molecule that normally helps quiet inflammation
could be an effective tool...
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Location: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, United States
Babies who get severe respiratory viral infections are much more likely to
suffer from asthma as they get older. Now researchers at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis have pinpointed a...
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Location: Michigan State University, United States
A mouse created by Michigan State University scientists studying a disease thought to be a neurological disorder that weakens men has exposed two surprises: Testosterone appears to be the culprit and it’s...
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Location: Oregon Health & Science University, United States
Children who possess a gene known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease
already show signs of reduced cognitive function, an Oregon
Health & Science University study has found. ...
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