Neuroscience
What goes wrong in the brain when someone can't spell
By studying stroke victims who have lost the ability to spell, researchers have pinpointed the parts of the brain that control how we write words.
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Neuroscience
Researchers find discrepancies in brain reactions due to acute versus permanent neural manipulations
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with Harvard University and the Simons Foundation has found that using techniques to acutely disable brain parts of rats and zebra finches can lead to different behavioral results ...
Neuroscience
New neuroimaging method better identifies epileptic lesions
Epilepsy affects more than 65 million people worldwide. One-third of these patients have seizures that are not controlled by medications. In addition, one-third have brain lesions, the hallmark of the disease, which cannot ...
Oct 14, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists identify DNA alterations as among earliest to occur in lung cancer development
Working with tissue, blood and DNA from six people with precancerous and cancerous lung lesions, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists has identified what it believes are among the very earliest "premalignant" genetic changes ...
Sep 21, 2015
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Scientists identify key to preventing secondary cancers
Leading scientists from the University of Sheffield and University of Copenhagen have identified a possible key to preventing secondary cancers in breast cancer patients, after discovering an enzyme which enhances the spread ...
May 27, 2015
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Mechanism by which exposure to vinyl chloride may produce cancerous mutations
In the 1970s, epidemiologists found that workers in factories using vinyl chloride, the key ingredient for PVC plastics, had unusually high rates of a rare form of liver cancer called angiosarcoma.
Apr 2, 2015
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Researchers identify first steps in formation of pancreatic cancer
Researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville say they have identified first steps in the origin of pancreatic cancer and that their findings suggest preventive strategies to explore.
Nov 10, 2014
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Research shows bone loss causes joint pain from alphaviral diseases
(Medical Xpress)—Arthritogenic alphaviruses such as Ross River virus (RRV) cause disabling joint pain. To understand what causes this pain, Suresh Mahalingam of Griffith University in Australia and his team studied how ...
Oncology & Cancer
Skin tumor vaccine shows promise in wild mice, rising hope for transplant patients
Papillomaviruses (linked to cervical cancer when they infect the mucosal tissue in the female reproductive tract) can also infect normal skin, where they cause warts and possibly non-melanoma skin cancer, mostly in immune-suppressed ...
Feb 20, 2014
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Health
Liver tumors found in mice exposed to BPA
In one of the first studies to show a significant association between BPA and cancer development, University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers have found liver tumors in mice exposed to the chemical via their ...
Feb 3, 2014
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