Studies suggest new key to 'switching off' hypertension
A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has designed new compounds that mimic those naturally used by the body to regulate blood pressure. The most promising of them may literally be...
View ArticleScientists identify key brain circuits that control compulsive drinking in rats
A research team led by scientists from the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco has identified circuitry in the brain that drives compulsive drinking...
View ArticleNovel 'top-down' mechanism repatterns developing brain regions
Dennis O'Leary of the Salk Institute was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of the human brain, was genetically determined during...
View ArticleEvolution picks up hitchhikers
In a twist on "survival of the fittest," researchers have discovered that evolution is driven not by a single beneficial mutation but rather by a group of mutations, including ones called "genetic...
View Article'Dead' gene comes to life, puts chill on inflammation, researchers find
A gene long presumed dead comes to life under the full moon of inflammation, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have found.
View ArticleStudy shows men as likely as women to distinguish between desire and arousal
The theory is that men and women are completely different in the way that they experience arousal and express desire. But the first large-scale study trying to tease apart what goes on in the minds and...
View ArticleBrain picks out salient sounds from background noise by tracking frequency...
New research reveals how our brains are able to pick out important sounds from the noisy world around us. The findings, published online today in the journal 'eLife', could lead to new diagnostic tests...
View ArticleUnderstanding a global epidemic: Why Africans with HIV are more susceptible...
Yale researchers have identified a common genetic variant that makes people infected with HIV much more susceptible to tuberculosis (TB). The study is published in the online Early Edition of the...
View ArticleWorms reveal link between dementia gene and ageing
The discovery of a link between a specific gene and ageing in a species of worm could reveal valuable lessons for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
View ArticleNew clues illuminate Alzheimer's roots
Scientists at Rice University and the University of Miami have figured out how synthetic molecules designed at Rice latch onto the amyloid peptide fibrils thought to be responsible for Alzheimer's...
View ArticleLung model makes headway for aerosol drug delivery
THE first computational lung model with true-to-life moving airway walls is holding promise for the optimisation of aerosol drug delivery and improved lung surgery outcomes for patients with...
View ArticleBetween B cells and T cells
Mature cells develop through a number of immature stages. During this process, they must remember the specialization they are committed to. For immune system B cells, Rudolf Grosschedl of the Max...
View ArticleCannabis constituent has no effect on MS progression, study shows
The first large non-commercial clinical study to investigate whether the main active constituent of cannabis (tetrahydrocannabinol or THC) is effective in slowing the course of progressive multiple...
View ArticleResearchers develop new approach for studying deadly brain cancer
Human glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most common, aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer, is notoriously difficult to study. Scientists have traditionally studied cancer cells in petri...
View ArticleA new weapon against stroke: Stem cell study uncovers the brain-protective...
One of regenerative medicine's greatest goals is to develop new treatments for stroke. So far, stem cell research for the disease has focused on developing therapeutic neurons—the primary movers of...
View ArticlePain of artificial legs could be eased by real-time monitoring
When Ron Bailey lost his right leg below the knee 10 years ago after a head-on collision, he was fitted with a prosthetic leg and began learning to use it in his daily life as a real estate agent in...
View ArticleResearchers identify vulnerabilities of the deadly Ebola virus
Disabling a protein in Ebola virus cells can stop the virus from replicating and infecting the host, according to researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The data are published in...
View ArticleUS: Menthol cigarettes likely pose health risk
(AP)—A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or...
View ArticleBolstering your brain against dementia
For years, the news about Alzheimer's and other dementia-related illness has been unrelentingly grim. We don't know many of the causes. We don't have a cure.
View ArticleDigital PCR technology detects brain-tumor-associated mutation in...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers and their colleagues have used digital versions of a standard molecular biology tool to detect a common tumor-associated mutation in the cerebrospinal...
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