Air pollution has significant toxicity on the kidney. However, improving air quality may have a beneficial effect on kidney function, according to a population-based study published in Health Data Science.
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Scientists have found whole genome sequencing (WGS) can quickly and accurately detect the most common inherited neurological disorders—something previously thought to be impossible—with the results supporting the use ...
Feb 17, 2022
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Children in Rochester were recently among the first in the nation to receive an experimental treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The study is part of an accelerating trend of clinical trials involving gene therapies ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Nonsense-mediated RNA decay, or NMD, is an evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanism in which potentially defective messenger RNAs, or mRNAs, are degraded. By reducing errors in gene expression, it serves as an RNA quality ...
Feb 3, 2022
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A brain region in mice that plays a key role in coordinating the playback process that consolidates memories during sleep has been identified by RIKEN neuroscientists. This finding could have implications for neurological ...
Dec 28, 2021
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The degradation and regeneration of myelin sheaths characterize neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Cholesterol is an indispensable component of myelin sheaths. The cholesterol for the regenerated myelin sheaths ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Scientists have long understood that the region of the brain called the hippocampus is important for memory, learning and navigation.
Oct 22, 2021
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Practice makes perfect, but sleep helps, too. Learning and executing a new motor skill can be enhanced if you can get additional memory processing during sleep, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Oct 18, 2021
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Scientists from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University used animal location tracking along with artificial intelligence to automatically detect walking behaviors of movement disorders ...
Sep 24, 2021
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Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success using deep brain stimulation devices, but those require invasive and expensive surgical implantation. Now engineers funded by ...
Sep 23, 2021
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