Have you ever wondered why babies get vaccines starting from the day they're born? One big reason: The youngest are most at risk of diseases. It's also the time in your child's development that their immune system learns ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have revealed a new principle of organization which explains how locomotion is coordinated in vertebrates akin to an engine with three gears. The results are published in the ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Currently, spinal cord injury does not have any effective treatments; physical rehabilitation can help patients regain some mobility, but for severe cases the outcomes are extremely limited by the failure of spinal neurons ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Itching is an unpleasant sensation associated with the desire to scratch, and the itch sensation is an important protective mechanism for animals. However, chronic itch, often seen in patients with skin and liver diseases, ...
Aug 17, 2017
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Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain-computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover ...
Aug 23, 2017
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Have you ever been shopping and returned home to find that you have forgotten to buy the very item you went shopping for? Have you known it was going to rain yet left your umbrella at home? Have you gone out and left the ...
Aug 2, 2018
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The past three decades saw a dramatic improvement in our understanding of what brings about Alzheimer's disease. Two proteins are thought to be responsible: amyloid and tau. The most widely accepted theory is that a critical ...
Apr 14, 2020
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In mammals, including humans, scar tissue forms after injury to the spinal cord as part of the healing process. In mammals, however, this has a serious drawback: the scar tissue cannot be penetrated by regrowing nerves. As ...
Nov 10, 2023
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My granddaughter was diagnosed with a severe case of scoliosis. What is scoliosis, and what treatments are available?
Dec 2, 2021
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A brain-machine interface that combines brain stimulation with a robotic device controlling hand movement increases the output of pathways connecting the brain and spinal cord, according to a study of healthy adults published ...
Jan 15, 2018
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