Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Novel backpack enhances stability for people with ataxia

A newly designed backpack, incorporating aerospace technology, shows promise as a balance aid for patients with the movement disorder ataxia. Research conducted by Radboud university medical center, in collaboration with ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mini-organ models reveal hantavirus secrets, point to treatments

UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses—rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents—infect the body. Hantaviruses were thrust ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Light therapy provides new hope for Alzheimer's patients

Researchers have developed a new light technology that appears to improve cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients in clinical trials. The hope is that the idea can be developed into ordinary lamps that people can install ...

Immunology

Recreating human thymus development in a dish using iPS cells

A team of researchers led by Professor Yoko Hamazaki and Assistant Professor Yann Pretemer (Department of Life Science Frontiers) has developed an in vitro model that faithfully recapitulates human thymic epithelial cell ...

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