News tagged with experimental observation


Enhancing oral health via sense of coherence: A cluster randomized trial

Today, the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) published a study titled "Enhancing Oral Health via Sense of Coherence: a Cluster Randomized Trial." This study by lead author Orawan Nammontri, ...

Dentistry created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study explores how brain disruption may foster schizophrenia

(Medical Xpress)—A team led by Yale researchers has used pharmacological neuroimaging and computational modeling to examine large-scale functional organization in the human brain. Their novel approach has ...

Neuroscience created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Intravenous vaccination promotes brain plasticity and prevents memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting over five million people worldwide, and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. Currently, intravenous human immunoglobulin ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cells can influence their own destiny, research finds

In a major shake-up of scientists' understanding of what determines the fate of cells, researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown that cells have some control over their own destiny.

Medical research created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tool helps identify prostate cancer patients with highest risk of death

After a prostate cancer patient receives radiation treatment, his doctor carefully monitors the amount of prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, in his blood. An increase in PSA, called biochemical failure, is the first detectable ...

Cancer created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0