Archive: 24/03/2015

Hunting the ion channel

The electrical impulse that powers the workings of the brain and the heart begins with charged particles passing through cellular structures known as ion channels. Using the same technique used to decode the structure of ...

Mar 24, 2015

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How to myelinate a nerve

(Medical Xpress)—Demyelinating diseases, like MS or ALS, attack an otherwise healthy nervous system and leave its owner a prisoner in their own body. The harder big pharma searches for—and fails to find—miracle drugs ...

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Gilead's Harvoni accepted in Canadian health plan

Gilead Sciences said multiple Canadian provinces will provide access to the biotechnology company's hepatitis C drug Harvoni following a positive reimbursement recommendation from regulators.

Mar 24, 2015

Milk could be good for your brain

New research conducted at the University of Kansas Medical Center has found a correlation between milk consumption and the levels of a naturally-occurring antioxidant called glutathione in the brain in older, healthy adults.

Mar 24, 2015

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Driving tumour cells to their death

B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, or B-ALL, is the most common tumour disease in children and also occurs in adults. It develops when signalling pathways in immature B cells, or pre-B cells, are dysregulated. Prof. Dr. ...

Mar 24, 2015

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Vitamin D vital for gene expression in developing brains

Vitamin D deficiency in mothers leading up to and during pregnancy has fundamental consequences for their offspring's brain development, researchers from University of Western Australia and the Telethon Kids Institute have ...

Mar 24, 2015

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Mutations taking place only in the brain identified as the cause of intractable epilepsy

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide. Many epilepsy patients can control their symptoms through medication, but about 30% suffer from intractable epilepsy and are unable to manage ...

Mar 24, 2015

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Training your brain to pay attention

A recent analysis has brought new clarity to the debate over whether brain training exercises can improve people's ability to pay attention in everyday life.

Mar 24, 2015

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Scientists coax stem cells to form 3-D mini lungs

Scientists have coaxed stem cells to grow the first three-dimensional mini lungs.

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Gene therapy slows vision loss in mouse models of retinal degeneration

Researchers have developed an antioxidant gene therapy that slows cone-cell death and prolongs vision in mouse models of retinal degeneration.

Mar 24, 2015

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