Neuroscience
Study shows certain brain waves aren't just background noise
Even when at rest, the brain is never truly quiet.
Nov 30, 2021
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Medications
Clinical trial for thyroid cancer patients: Targeted alpha therapy using astatine
A research team from the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University has started an investigator-initiated clinical trial of sodium astatine ([211At]NaAt) injection for refractory differentiated thyroid cancer patients. ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
UK study suggests COVID-19 became much more lethal in late 2020
A new statistical analysis supports beliefs that COVID-19 became more lethal in the U.K. in late 2020, while also suggesting that multiple factors—not just the alpha variant of the virus that causes COVID-19—were to blame. ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Medications
Combination therapy reduces toxic aggregates in Parkinson's disease
A new combination of drugs could fix the broken lysosomal enzyme pathway in Parkinson's disease-afflicted brain cells, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Neuron.
Nov 24, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
NIH scientists identify mechanism that may influence infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found that a process in cells may limit infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta variants overcome this effect, potentially boosting the virus's ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The inside story of England's COVID pandemic described in new study
The COVID-19 crisis that gripped the UK between September 2020 and June 2021 can be thought of as a series of overlapping epidemics, rather than a single event, say researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL's European ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Frontrunner target for Parkinson's Disease may only be relevant for small fraction of patients
Parkinson's Disease develops if a certain anti-viral receptor and its protein in the brain, called the interferon-beta pathway, is not functioning correctly. That causes the pathway to be blocked, and as a result the brain ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Medications
Early-stage drug candidate diminishes deficits in Parkinson's disease
University of Utah Health scientists have identified a molecule that slows cells' production of alpha-synuclein, a protein that forms toxic aggregates in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease. Its discovery points ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
SARS-CoV-2 is evolving to get better at becoming airborne, new study shows
Results of a new study led by the University of Maryland School of Public Health show that people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 exhale infectious virus in their breath—and those infected with the Alpha variant ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New information on the early stages of dementia with Lewy bodies
Results obtained in a study recently completed at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital reinforce the notion that dementia with Lewy bodies can be pathologically classified into two different disease ...
Sep 8, 2021
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