Archive: 01/12/2015
High-quality foster care reduces chance of callous-emotional trait development for abandoned children early in life
A study to be published in the December 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that high-quality foster care can mitigate the development of callous-unemotional ...
Dec 1, 2015
New biomarkers for acute myeloid leukemia
Mariam Ibáñez, lecturer at Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU (CEU Cardenal Herrera University, UCH-CEU) and biologist at "La Fe" Hospital in Valencia used massive sequencing techniques to identify new recurrent genes mutations ...
Dec 1, 2015
Treating Machado Joseph Disease; a new approach to an old problem
Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that destroys the brain areas involved in muscle control. Although the disease is clearly caused by a mutation in the ATXN3 gene resulting in an abnormal ...
Dec 1, 2015
Study suggests new strategy for treating rare neurodegenerative disorder menkes disease
Treatments for Menkes disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a deficiency in copper, focus on delivering copper to the brain. The disease arises from dysfunction in ATP7A, a protein that transports copper ...
Dec 1, 2015