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

Recent studies warn surveillance of bird flu strains is needed

(Medical Xpress)—Recent scientific papers from China suggest a vigilant watch should be kept on the development of bird flu viruses, as a new strain has been identified and previously known viruses have ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 03, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Study identifies new gene variations associated with heart rate

Through a collaborative genome-wide study on individuals, researchers have discovered 14 new genetic variations that are associated with heart rate. Since heart rate is a marker of cardiovascular health, these findings could ...

Genetics created Apr 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | 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

Transmission of tangles in Alzheimer's mice provides more authentic model of tau pathology

Brain diseases associated with the misformed protein tau, including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with tau pathologies, are characterized by neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) comprised ...

Neuroscience created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | 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

Researchers develop computer model that can predict cholera outbreaks 11 months in advance

(Medical Xpress) -- A new University of Michigan computer model of disease transmission in space and time can predict cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh up to 11 months in advance, providing an early warning ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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

Basic disinfectant could halt bird flu spread, study shows

Live poultry markets can act as hotbeds for H5N1 bird flu, but simple measures such as disinfecting trucks, equipment and market space could help stop the virus from spreading, researchers said Monday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study uses Botox to find new wrinkle in brain communication

National Institutes of Health researchers used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. This novel ...

Medical research created May 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals probable role of Parkinson's protein in healthy brain

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have exposed the possible function, in the healthy brain, of a mysterious molecule that has been strongly implicated in Parkinson's ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created May 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

H7N9 bird flu: Lancet study confirms poultry as source (Update)

Chinese researchers reporting in The Lancet on Thursday confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans but said they found no evidence of person-to-person transmission.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO says China bird flu not spreading easily in humans

There's no evidence a new bird flu strain is spreading easily among people in China even though some of those sickened were close to patients with the virus, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HIV-infected moms who breastfeed exclusively have lower levels of virus in breast milk

HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa who fed their babies exclusively with breast milk for more than the first four months of life had the lowest risk of transmitting the virus to their babies through breast milk, according ...

HIV & AIDS created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast