Neuroscience
Dehydration alters human brain shape and activity, slackens task performance
When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder.
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Medical research
This matrix delivers healing stem cells to injured elderly muscles
A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won't heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells from a donor might restore damaged tissue, but doctors are unable to deliver them effectively. A new method ...
Aug 15, 2018
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Health
As we get parched, cognition can easily sputter, dehydration study says
Anyone lost in a desert hallucinating mirages knows that extreme dehydration discombobulates the mind. But just two hours of vigorous yard work in the summer sun without drinking fluids could be enough to blunt concentration, ...
Jul 17, 2018
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Diabetes
Biomaterial particles educate immune system to accept transplanted islets
By instructing key immune system cells to accept transplanted insulin-producing islets, researchers have opened a potentially new pathway for treating type 1 diabetes. If the approach is ultimately successful in humans, it ...
Jun 5, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bacterial conversations in cystic fibrosis
"A large part of my research is thinking about how bacteria communicate," says Sophie Darch. The postdoctoral researcher works with School of Biological Sciences Professor Marvin Whiteley, studying the social lives of bacteria.
Jun 5, 2018
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Neuroscience
I saw that. Brain mechanisms create confidence about things seen
There's a long way to go before neuroscience can fathom the vastness of human consciousness, but researchers pushing that envelope have uncovered a mechanism that helps create a simple visual awareness. In a new study, they ...
Jun 5, 2018
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Genetics
In child-crippling mucolipidosis IV, drug shows hope in lab cultures
Mucolipidosis IV debilitates afflicted children's nervous systems in their first year of life, steals their eyesight in their teens and takes their lives in their twenties, and so far, there is no therapy to fight it. Now, ...
May 29, 2018
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Surgery
A safer way to handle surgical scalpel blades
When tasked with redesigning a medical device, four biomedical engineering majors focused their attention on scalpels. Specifically, the blade packaging for the tool.
Mar 7, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Data detectives shift suspicions in Alzheimer's to inside villain
The mass pursuit of a conspicuous suspect in Alzheimer's disease may have encumbered research success for decades. Now, a new data analysis that has untangled evidence amassed in years of Alzheimer's studies encourages researchers ...
Feb 20, 2018
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Neuroscience
Neurons get the beat and keep it going in drumrolls
A neuron firing deep in the brain might sound a little like: Drumroll...cymbal crash! Drumroll...cymbal crash! Repeat. With emphasis on "repeat," according to a new study.
Feb 1, 2018
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