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Health

Hello hay fever—why pressing under your nose could stop a sneeze but why you shouldn't

If you have hay fever, you've probably been sneezing a lot lately.

Oct 26, 2023

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Neuroscience

Researchers make exciting discoveries in non-excitable cells

It has been 60 years since scientists discovered that sodium channels create the electrical impulses crucial to the function of nerve, brain, and heart cells—all of which are termed "excitable." Now researchers at Yale ...

Oct 17, 2013

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Medical research

Researchers identify root of chronic pain as potential new drug target

When we are in pain, we reach for painkillers as we try to "turn off" the pain. Unfortunately, this does not always work, and this problem has prompted researchers around the world to seek the "main switch" that can promptly ...

Apr 11, 2016

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Neuroscience

Mayo Clinic Q&A: Understanding multiple sclerosis

Dear Mayo Clinic: What causes multiple sclerosis, or MS, in people who don't have it in their family?

Oct 26, 2018

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Medical research

Removing barriers to healing

Severe inflammation caused by a patient's immune system can be deadly, but stem cells found in human fat could provide new ways to protect against this toxic reaction.

Jun 29, 2018

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Medical research

New approaches to heal injured nerves

Injuries to nerve fibers in the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves usually result in functional losses as the nerve fibers are unable to regenerate. A team from the Department of Cell Physiology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum ...

Aug 23, 2019

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Neuroscience

Promising therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries

The healing ability of the central nervous system is very limited and injuries to the brain or spinal cord often result in permanent functional deficits. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in the scientific ...

Mar 1, 2018

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Neuroscience

Scientists find possible cause of movement defects in spinal muscular atrophy

(Medical Xpress) -- An abnormally low level of a protein in certain nerve cells is linked to movement problems that characterize the deadly childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research in animals suggests.

Apr 11, 2012

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Medical research

Transplanted neural stem cells treat ALS in mouse model

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is untreatable and fatal. Nerve cells in the spinal cord die, eventually taking away a person's ability to move or even breathe. A consortium of ALS ...

Dec 19, 2012

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