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Spinal cord bridge bypasses injury to restore mobility

...esearchers hoped to reconnect the other end of the bridge to the spinal cord, but also prevent further scarr...imately 20 percent of the nerve fibers leaving the bridge and reconnecting with the spinal cord. It brought about markedly improved mobility for the seven rat...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...or Norwalk," Ruchhoeft said. "By having the virus bridge the cube to the surface, you don't need to go through complex sample preparation steps, like extracting DNA, amplifying it and so forth. You could envision making a system work at a doctor's office or at an entry point to the cruise ship." The e...

UBC researchers find stroke death channel

...s. Junctions are composed of two hemichannels that bridge the intercellular space. Until now, scientists believed the disruption to occur at the site of glutamate channels. Glutamate is one of the brain's most abundant chemical messengers. However, therapeutic strategies targeted at glutamate channels fail...

Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis

... summer to complete her medical degree, could help bridge the gap between the research worlds of infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. "It's an exciting new field to which Nancy could greatly contribute," he said. Whatever the ultimate cause of MS, Edwards finds the therapeutic implications of her w...

Striking the right balance between excitation and inhibition

... group of spinal cord "interneurons," neurons that bridge communications between other neurons. Many interneurons emerging in the dorsal part of the spinal cord arise from a common progenitor cell. Since mature neurons can be either excitatory or inhibitory, the researchers asked how a single parental prog...

Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors

...ive (launched by the World Health Organization) to bridge the digital divide in health information access ( http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ ). ...

Singing for survival

...ong ape species, especially gibbons who in a sense bridge the evolutionary gap between great apes and monkeys, could shed light on when this ability developed in the primate lineage." ...

Caterpillars tell us how bacteria cause disease

...e. This will allow us to rapidly and inexpensively bridge the enormous knowledge gap that has grown in the post-genomic era where it has become possible to sequence a whole bacterial genome without necessarily knowing the biological function of individual genes," Dr Waterfield said. His study focuses on ...

Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies

... generally, he said, such studies form a potential bridge between systems neuroscience studies of behavior and modern molecular neuroscience research into individual neurons and synapses. ...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...health workers is a proven, effective and critical bridge between physicians and patients where mistrust of the health care system exists. Stabilize communities by increasing affordable housing. ?The scarcity of affordable housing faced by many African-Americans is at the center of a web of interconnec...

Tearing down the fungal cell wall

...ein encoded by this gene could serve as a physical bridge in the layers of the cell wall or function as a regulator of cell wall biosynthesis. Future work will focus on identifying the role of the product of the AbNPS2 gene which should allow us to get an important handle on the precise series of molecular ...

Research project tackles 'regeneration' gap

... provide fellowships for young scientists who will bridge the gaps between the different labs and investigators involved in regeneration research. "The fellows will be the glue that holds this broad group of scientists together," said Steindler, a professor of neuroscience at the UF College of Medicine....

Widely used iron nanoparticles exhibit toxic effects on neuronal cells

...eriments, using nanoparticles-laden nerve cells to bridge regions of damaged neurons. However, when they added nerve growth factor to nanoparticle-laden cells in culture flasks, they observed toxic dose-dependent effects: some cells died, and many of the survivors exhibited a diminished ability to produce n...

'Terror bird' arrived in North America before land bridge, study finds

...orth America from South America long before a land bridge connected the two continents. UF paleontologist B...nis immigrated to Texas across the Panamanian land bridge that formed about 3 million years ago connecting North and South America," said MacFadden, a curator...

Racing neurons control whether we stop or go

...he race." The findings are some of the first to bridge cognitive research and neurophysiology—making the connection between the mind and the brain. "For years, one group of researchers was looking at what neurons are doing, and a different group of researchers was looking at what people are doing," Pa...

Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes

...ool. This center helps MIT students and professors bridge the gap between an intriguing idea or technology and a commercially viable concept. Recognizing Scenes The IEEE paper describes how the team "showed" the model randomly selected images so that it could "learn" to identify commonly occurring f...

A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research

...h as movement instructions, could allow doctors to bridge blockages in damaged spinal columns, perhaps restoring some function to the limbs of paralyzed patients. Finally, the technique could be useful in teasing out the largely unknown functioning of healthy brains. "One day we'd like to be able to u...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

...oxide] sequestration, on the other hand, is only a bridge technology,'' he added. ''Maybe we have another hundred years of using fossil fuels, and then we'll be on to better and smarter things, one hopes. If we're going to be creating greenhouse gases for another hundred years, it's a huge problem right now...

In mice, drug protects against diabetes and atherosclerosis

...r-institutional and inter-disciplinary science, to bridge discovery with application and fruitful industry-academia collaboration."...

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