Archive: 05/11/2018

What can a tau mouse model reveal about the effects of repetitive brain injury?

Researchers have developed a mouse model expressing the human tau protein and subjected it to repeated injury-producing impacts and rotational acceleration to be able to study the effects on social behavior, anxiety, spatial ...

Nov 5, 2018

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From asexuality to heteroflexibility: 21st century ushers in new openness about intimate relationships

The 21st century has ushered in a "quiet revolution" in the diversity of intimate relationships, and a leading scholar says the scale and pace of this social transformation warrants a "reboot" of relationship studies.

Nov 5, 2018

Team studying rare disorder discovers novel way to target melanoma

While studying a rare genetic disorder called NGLY1 deficiency, University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) researchers discovered a new targeted treatment for combating melanoma, a skin cancer that kills about ...

Nov 5, 2018

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Is there a universal hierarchy of human senses?

Research at the University of York has shown that the accepted hierarchy of human senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell—is not universally true across all cultures.

Nov 5, 2018

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Abnormalities in genes linked to IRSP in Alzheimer's disease

(HealthDay)—Individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have abnormalities and reductions in gene expression in the parahippocampal gyri that map to genes associated with the insulin receptor signaling pathway (IRSP), according ...

Nov 5, 2018

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Notes reflecting financial considerations ID'd in ICU

(HealthDay)—Among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), 4.2 percent of admissions have at least one note reflecting financial considerations, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in JAMA Network Open.

Nov 5, 2018

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Models project 79 percent drop in lung CA mortality by 2065

(HealthDay)—Existing tobacco control efforts will continue to reduce lung cancer mortality through 2065, according to a study published online Oct. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Nov 5, 2018

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Researchers uncover evidence of restored vision in rats following cell transplant

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, have discovered that neurons located in the vision centers of the brains of blind rats functioned normally following fetal retina cell transplants, ...

Nov 5, 2018

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Children's sleep not significantly affected by screen time, new study finds

Screen-time has little impact on the quality of children's sleep, according to new Oxford University research.

Nov 5, 2018

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Mount Sinai is first to use FDA-approved drug-eluting stent that treats PAD

Vascular specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are the first in the United States to use the Eluvia, a drug-eluting vascular stent system for clinical treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), a circulatory ...

Nov 5, 2018

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