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Now a team of scientists has developed a way to see where and how that diary is written. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-scientists-memories-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:08 EST news290855746 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say overexpression of a protein called alpha-synuclein appears to disrupt vital recycling processes in neurons, starting with the terminal extensions of neurons and working its way back to the cells' center, with the potential consequence of progressive degeneration and eventual cell death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-excess-protein-linked-parkinson-disease.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:52:55 EST news279471152 Nations that consume a lot of milk and milk products also tend to have a lot of Nobel laureates among their populations, suggest the authors of a letter, published in Practical Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nations-consume-lot-nobel-prizes.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news277381500 In a new paper he regards "among my most important work since the double helix," Nobelist James Watson sets forth a novel hypothesis regarding the role of oxidants and antioxidants in cancers that are currently incurable, notably in late-stage metastatic cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nobel-laureate-publishes-hypothesis-late-stage.html Cancer Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:00:06 EST news276877965 Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nobel-medicine-laureate-levi-montalcini-dies.html Other Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:04:06 EST news276095034 Cancer cells grow fast. That's an essential characteristic of what makes them cancer cells. They've crashed through all the cell-cycle checkpoints and are continuously growing and dividing, far outstripping our normal cells. To do this they need to speed up their metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-team-antisense-technology-exploits-gene.html Cancer Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:20:08 EST news270930907 Scientists have proved a 60-year-old theory about how nerve signals are sent around the body at varying speeds as electrical impulses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-nerve-discovery-nobel-winner-theory.html Medical research Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:20:41 EST news269176827 The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-nobel-laureate-discoverer-hiv-sight.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:10:01 EST news261979050 A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-high-aids-conference.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:20:01 EST news261554553 A drug candidate that has shown promise for neutralizing dangerous bacteria also prevents the parasite that causes malaria from growing, new research by a Yale University team headed by Nobel laureate Sidney Altman shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-compound-halts-growth-malaria-parasite.html Medical research Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:17 EST news252585368 Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-memory-formation-triggered-stem-cell.html Neuroscience Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:56:36 EST news249224191 The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry broached the subject in the 1960s. The left is analytical while the right is creative, so goes the adage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-complexity-left-brainright-brain-paradigm.html Neuroscience Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:39:34 EST news244874361 Researchers from the lab of Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann, MD, PhD at the Max Planck Florida Institute (MPFI) are reporting that, using a conceptually new approach and state-of-the-art research tools, they have created the first realistic three-dimensional diagram of a thalamocortical column in the rodent brain. A vertically organized series of connected neurons that form a brain circuit, the cortical column is considered the elementary building block of the cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for many of its higher functions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-scientists-realistic-3d-reconstruction-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:30:22 EST news242483415 Nobel laureate Jules Hoffmann, whose father helped foster his study of bugs, said his decades of research into the immunity of insects could enable scientists to find a cure for human disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-nobel-winner-insect-humans.html Medical research Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:53:20 EST news236922793