Archive: 04/03/2020

Can boxing improve quality of life for people with Parkinson's disease?

People with Parkinson's disease who participate in a special, non-contact boxing program may have better quality of life and be more likely to exercise than those who do not participate, according to a preliminary study released ...

Mar 4, 2020

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Study identifies hormone that causes women to experience more pain than men

Imagine taking a pill to control your pain and, instead, the medication actually increases the pain you feel. That may be the situation for patients who take opioids, but even more so for women, according to groundbreaking ...

Mar 4, 2020

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Our eye movements help us retrieve memories, suggests new study

In a recent study, scientists at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) found that research participants moved their eyes to determine whether they had seen an image before, and that their eye movement patterns could ...

Mar 4, 2020

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Little tissue, big mission: Beating heart tissues to ride aboard the ISS

Launching no earlier than March 6 at 11:50 PM EST, the Johns Hopkins University will send heart muscle tissues, contained in a specially-designed tissue chip the size of a small cellphone, up to the microgravity environment ...

Mar 4, 2020

New coronavirus deaths in US as lawmakers reach funding deal

The death toll in the United States from the new coronavirus rose to 11 on Wednesday, as lawmakers in Congress reached a deal to provide more than $8 billion to fight the outbreak.

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Egypt to ban entry to Qataris over coronavirus

Egypt's government said Wednesday it will ban Qatari nationals from entry over fears of coronavirus after the oil-rich Gulf state took similar measures against people coming from Egypt.

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From scorpion to immunotherapy: Team repurposes nature's toxin for CAR T

City of Hope scientists have developed and tested the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy using chlorotoxin (CLTX), a component of scorpion venom, to direct T cells to target brain tumor cells, according ...

Mar 4, 2020

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Tiny scorpion-derived proteins deliver arthritis drugs to joints in preclinical study

Millions of Americans live with the pain and physical limitations of arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Steroids and other drugs can offer relief, but they can also come with a host of serious side effects.

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Newly discovered brain response to obesity drug may inform future treatments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved drug liraglutide has been shown to help obese patients lose weight by suppressing their appetite. However, where and how the drug acts in the brain was not fully understood, ...

Mar 4, 2020

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'It's like you have a hand again': An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic

In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, University of Michigan researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control ...

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