Neuroscience
These blind mice hear like Stevie Wonder
Want to hear as well as Stevie Wonder or the late Ray Charles? A blindfold not only might help, it could rewire your brain in the process, a new study suggests.
Feb 11, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
New imaging tool bypasses blade to check for skin cancer
(Medical Xpress)—You have a suspicious mole on your skin. It doesn't hurt, but it looks different than it did six months ago.
Nov 20, 2013
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Medical research
Finding cellular causes of lung-hardening disease
(Medical Xpress)—Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, or IPF, is an incurable lung disease that, over time, turns healthy lung tissue into inflexible scar tissue – hardening the lungs and eventually causing respiratory distress ...
Sep 17, 2013
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Neuroscience
Discovery helps to unlock brain's speech-learning mechanism
USC scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are learning to imitate.
Sep 4, 2013
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Neuroscience
Feeding fruit flies with spermidin suppresses age-dependent memory impairment
(Medical Xpress)—Age-induced memory impairment can be suppressed by administration of the natural substance spermidin. This was found in a recent study conducted by Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist from Freie Universität Berlin ...
Sep 2, 2013
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Neuroscience
Antisense oligoneucleotide corrects striatal transcriptional abnormalities and protects function in HD mice
Findings from postmortem studies of the brains of Huntington's Disease (HD) patients suggest that transcriptional dysregulation may be an early step in the pathogenesis of HD before symptoms appear. Other studies report transcriptional ...
Aug 26, 2013
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Genetics
Potential molecular defence against Huntington's disease discovered
Leicester geneticists have discovered a potential defence against Huntington's disease – a fatal neurodegenerative disorder which currently has no cure.
Aug 25, 2013
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Health
Study shows moderate exercise could be good for your tendons
Moderate exercise could be good for keeping your tendons healthy according to new research from the University of East Anglia funded by Arthritis Research UK.
Aug 7, 2013
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Autism spectrum disorders
Brain chemistry changes in children with autism offer clues to earlier detection and intervention
(Medical Xpress)—Between ages three and 10, children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit distinct brain chemical changes that differ from children with developmental delays and those with typical development, according ...
Aug 2, 2013
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Medical research
Wave of blue fluorescence reveals pathway of death in worms
The final biological events in the life of a worm are described today, revealing how death spreads like a wave from cell to cell until the whole organism is dead.
Jul 23, 2013
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