Neuroscience

Engineers decode conversations in brain's motor cortex

How does your brain talk with your arm? The body doesn't use English, or any other spoken language. Biomedical engineers are developing methods for decoding the conversation, by analyzing electrical patterns in the motor ...

Oncology & Cancer

Stopping anti-CCL2 breast cancer treatment aggravates the disease

Mohamed Bentires-Alj and his team at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) together with scientists from the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) show in a study published today in Nature ...

Medical research

Decoy FGFR3 protein appears to prevent dwarfism in mice

(Medical Xpress)—A team made up of researchers from several institutions in France has found that a decoy protein injected into mice, appears to prevent the development of dwarfism. In their paper published in the journal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Simple, rapid test for drug-resistant malaria developed

For the first time, scientists have developed a novel and rapid way to test whether the most common and lethal form of malaria is resistant to potent artemisinin drugs.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Not guility: Parkinson and protein phosphorylation

Clues left at the scene of the crime don't always point to the guilty party, as EPFL researchers investigating Parkinson's disease have discovered. It is generally accepted that the disease is aggravated when a specific protein ...

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