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New form of brain plasticity: Research shows how social isolation disrupts myelin production

Animals that are socially isolated for prolonged periods make less myelin in the region of the brain responsible for complex emotional and cognitive behavior, researchers at the University at Buffalo and Mt. Sinai School ...

Neuroscience created Nov 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study suggests caution and further studies on drugs used to treat macular degeneration

Millions of people with "wet" macular degeneration are prescribed a class of medication known as anti-VEGF drugs. But now scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that a drastic reduction of VEGF activity ...

Cancer created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic observation reveals a bone-weakening mechanism

(Medical Xpress)—An EPFL research team has used a novel method to identify a gene involved in bone building. Their results appear today in the advance online edition of the scientific journal Cell.

Medical research created Aug 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Heart repairs very early in life, but not as adults

(Medical Xpress) -- In a two-day-old mouse, a heart attack causes active stem cells to grow new heart cells; a few months later, the heart is mostly repaired. But in an adult mouse, recovery from such an attack ...

Cardiology created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Retina transplantation improved by manipulating recipient retinal microenvironment

A research team in the United Kingdom has found that insulin-like growth factor (IGF1) impacts cell transplantation of photoreceptor precursors by manipulating the retinal recipient microenvironment, enabling better migration ...

Ophthalmology created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Caffeine boosts power for elderly muscles

A new study to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on June 30 has shown that caffeine boosts power in older muscles, suggesting the stimulant could aid elderly people to maintain their strength, reducing ...

Health created Jun 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Clues found to way embryonic kidney maintains its fleeting stem cells

Studying mice and humans, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their collaborators in Paris have identified two proteins that are required to maintain a supply of stem cells ...

Medical research created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fragile X syndrome can be reversed in adult mouse brain

A recent study finds that a new compound reverses many of the major symptoms associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common form of inherited intellectual disability and a leading cause of autism. The paper, published ...

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transforming scar tissue into beating hearts: The next instalment

The latest research developments to reprogram scar tissue resulting from myocardial infarction (MI) into viable heart muscle cells, were presented at the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2012 meeting, held 30 March ...

Cardiology created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell-signaling pathway has key role in development of gestational diabetes

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified a cell-signaling pathway that plays a key role in increasing insulin secretion during pregnancy and, when blocked, leads to the development of ...

Diabetes created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Highly exposed to phthalates as fetuses, female mice have altered reproductive lives

Female mouse fetuses exposed to very high doses of a common industrial chemical that makes plastics more pliable develop significant reproductive alterations and precancerous lesions as they grow up, according ...

Medical research created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stopping low back pain: Researchers discover molecular mechanism responsible for vertebral column degeneration

Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found an important molecular mechanism responsible for low back pain and other acute vertebral problems like cervical axial pain, all due to aging and ...

Medical research created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gatekeeper signal controls skin inflammation

A new study unravels key signals that regulate protective and sometimes pathological inflammation of the skin. The research, published online on January 26th in the journal Immunity by Cell Press, identifies a "gatekeeper" that, ...

Medical research created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hopes for reversing age-associated effects in MS patients

New research highlights the possibility of reversing ageing in the central nervous system for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The study is published today, 06 January, in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Medical research created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

P Rex-1 protein key to melanoma metastasis

Researchers from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center are part of a team that has identified a protein, called P-Rex1, that is key to the movement of cells called melanoblasts. When these cells experience uncontrolled ...

Cancer created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0