Neuroscience
Got an appetite that won't subside? You've got hungry peptides
A USC study shows the brain's plumbing system serves double duty, flushing waste and channeling a hunger molecule that tells you when you should eat.
May 31, 2018
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Autism spectrum disorders
Scientists find possible autism biomarker in cerebrospinal fluid
Autism diagnosis is slow and cumbersome, but new findings linking a hormone called vasopressin to social behavior in monkeys and autism in people may change that. Low vasopressin in cerebrospinal fluid was related to less ...
May 2, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Immune-engineered device targets chemo-resistant lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that is diagnosed in the U.S. more than 70,000 times annually, arises from overly proliferating immune cells within the body's lymph nodes, which are connected to a network of lymph vessels ...
Apr 12, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
A new way of thinking about tau kinetics, an essential component of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is most often characterized by two different pathologies in the brain: plaque deposits of a protein called beta-amyloid and tangles of another protein called tau. A paper appearing March 21 in the journal ...
Mar 21, 2018
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Health
In wine, there's health: Low levels of alcohol good for the brain
While a couple of glasses of wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help clean the mind as well. The new study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, shows that low ...
Feb 2, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Minimally invasive blood test for Alzheimer's disease
Scientists from Japan and Australia have teamed up to develop and validate a blood test for Alzheimer's disease, with the potential to massively ramp up the pace of Alzheimer's disease drug trials.
Feb 1, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study reveals how MRSA infection compromises lymphatic function
Infections of the skin or other soft tissues with the hard-to-treat MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria appear to permanently compromise the lymphatic system, which is crucial to immune system function. ...
Jan 17, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Blood test identifies key Alzheimer's marker
A new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that measures of amyloid beta in the blood have the potential to help identify people with altered levels of amyloid in their ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Pediatrics
Unique womb-like device could reduce mortality and disability for extremely premature babies
A unique womb-like environment designed by pediatric researchers could transform care for extremely premature babies, by mimicking the prenatal fluid-filled environment to give the tiniest newborns a precious few weeks to ...
Apr 25, 2017
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Neuroscience
Possible genetic marker for ALS found might prove useful for measuring effectiveness of treatments
(Medical Xpress)—A very large team of researchers with members from the U.S., Italy and the Netherlands has found what might be a marker for ALS, which the team suggests could be used as a yardstick for measuring the effectiveness ...
