News tagged with transmission


Take your time: Neurobiology sheds light on the superiority of spaced vs. massed learning

(Medical Xpress) -- College and cramming – often where’s there’s one, the other is not far behind. That said, however, it has been recognized since the late 1800s that repeated periodic exposure ...

Neuroscience created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists reverse disorder of neuronal circuits in autism

People with autism suffer from a pervasive developmental disorder of the brain that becomes evident in early childhood. Peter Scheiffele and Kaspar Vogt, Professors at the Biozentrum of the University of ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sexual transmission of insect-borne virus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Little did Brian Foy know that when he came home from a scientific research trip and had sex with his wife that that sexual act would create virological history. A study just released in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Suppression of protein critical to cell division stops cancer cells from dividing, kills them

Suppressing a newly identified and characterized protein involved in regulating cell division could be a novel strategy to fight certain cancers because it stops the malignant cells from dividing and causes them to die quickly, ...

Cancer created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Learning requires rhythmical activity of neurons

The hippocampus represents an important brain structure for learning. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich discovered how it filters electrical neuronal signals through an input ...

Neuroscience created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Parkinson's disease protein causes disease spread and neuron death in healthy animals

Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been the case for such brain-degenerating conditions as Alzheimer's disease. ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Optimal evidence accumulation in decision-making

(Medical Xpress)—At the same settings and light conditions, a camera will take the same picture every time. In contrast, a brain does not make perfect reconstructions of a stimulus. It appears instead to ...

Neuroscience created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Breast milk kills HIV and blocks its oral transmission in humanized mouse

More than 15 percent of new HIV infections occur in children. Without treatment, only 65 percent of HIV-infected children will live until their first birthday, and fewer than half will make it to the age of ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists explain how they created bird flu that spreads easily among mammals

Scientists have created versions of the H5N1 bird flu that spread easily among mammals through droplets in sneezes and have concluded that the deadly virus could trigger a global pandemic in humans.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

End to the 30-year war against AIDS in sight

Thirty years, 30 million deaths and 60 million infections after HIV appeared, medical researchers now have the tools to halt the deadly epidemic.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Neuronal filters for broadband information transmission in the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- As in broadband information technology, the nervous system transmits different messages simultaneously from one brain region to others. But how are messages retrieved at the other end without ...

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Innate immune system can kill HIV when a viral gene is deactivated

Human cells have an intrinsic capacity to destroy HIV. However, the virus has evolved to contain a gene that blocks this ability. When this gene is removed from the virus, the innate human immune system destroys HIV by mutating ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Malaria drug treatment breakthrough

An international study, involving researchers from Griffith University's Eskitis Institute, has discovered a molecule which could form the basis of powerful new anti-malaria drugs.

Medications created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stopping HIV transmission with a molecular barrier

Using a technique that silences genes promoting infection, researchers have developed a novel, topically-applied molecular microbicide capable of preventing HIV transmission. The microbicide is predicted to have long-lasting ...

HIV & AIDS created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Targeting HIV's sugar coating: New microbicide may block AIDS virus from infecting cells

University of Utah researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the sugary coating of the AIDS virus and inhibit it from infecting cells – an early step toward a new treatment to ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast