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Neuroscientists discover new cell type that may help brain maintain memories of smells

...al brain region most susceptible to damage in this debilitating disease. "By understanding the biological process that allow us to store memories in the olfactory brain, we might find a novel window into pathological changes that affect memory in people with Alzheimer's disease," said Strowbridge. In additi...

Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease

...ding year. Other diseases that were common but not debilitating among this group were arthritis, diarrhea and skin infections. Several factors may have contributed to the increased survival of this group of patients. When compared to all patients with XLA, a high percentage of the patients included in this stu...

Weizmann Institute suggests that immune cells help to maintain cognition and brain cell renewal

...lity ?if their levels are controlled ?to fight off debilitating degenerative conditions that can afflict the CNS, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, glaucoma, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the nerve degeneration that results from trauma or stroke. In their earlier research, Schwartz and her...

Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients

...fully, in the process, discover new treatments for debilitating diseases," says Dr. Platt. ...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

...ron deficiency, one of the developing world's most debilitating and intractable public health problems affecting nearly 2 billion people. The lead authors of the article, Dr. Jere Haas from the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Dr. John Beard and Dr. Laura E. Murray-Kolb from the Department...

Texas scientists discover how a hepatitis C protein promotes liver cancer

...y, works only about half the time and often causes debilitating side effects. Those who fail treatment are at risk for fatal cirrhosis or developing liver cancer. Researchers have known for a long time that hepatitis C virus infection can lead to liver cancer. But how the virus goes about this has been unclear. ...

Argonne researchers confirm lead in Beethoven's illness

... results confirm the cause of his years of chronic debilitating illness. The bone fragments, confirmed by DNA testing to have come from Beethoven's body, were scanned by X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne, which provides the most brilliant X-rays in the Western Hemisphere. A control bone fragment ...

Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain

...showed a marked ability to provide relief from the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's. But the drug, which is expensive and hard to obtain, had to be pumped directly into the brains of Parkinson's patients for it to work, as it is unable to cross the blood-brain barrier. In an effort to develop a less invasive...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

...y company developing cell therapies for deadly and debilitating disorders. Dr. Sanberg is a cofounder of Saneron CCEL, and Dr. Willing is a consultant. ...

Scientists move forward understanding of schizophrenia

...nks back to DISC1 sheds much needed light on these debilitating disorders. It also suggests a new way of thinking ...eloping novel ways of diagnosing and treating this debilitating disease." Peter Hutson, the Neuroscience Research Centre, Merck Sharp & Dohme, said: "Mental il...

Sickle cell disease corrected in human models using stem cell-based gene therapy

...t to demonstrate a way to genetically correct this debilitating blood disease using RNA interference technology. To prevent the production of the abnormal hemoglobin that causes sickle cell disease, a viral vector was introduced in cell cultures of patients who have the disease. The vector carried a therapeutic ...

New factor implicated in allergy and asthma attacks

...ng assumed that they know how pollen produces such debilitating responses. They blame an overreaction by the body's immune system, set off by proteins known as antigens, which are found on the surface of pollen particles--an inappropriate activation of the normal "antigen-mediated" immune response the body uses t...

UK is first to administer new anti-clotting technology

... vessels, causing heart attacks, strokes and other debilitating or life-threatening conditions. Blood thinners, or antithrombotics, pose a risk of bleeding, particularly during surgery. The ability to stop the anti-clotting effects quickly could help protect patients from uncontrolled bleeding. The Gill Heart In...

Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

...nign therapy could potentially eliminate months of debilitating chemotherapy and radiation treatment, he adds. "The laser we used is a 3-centimeter beam that's held like a flashlight," he notes. "We can take the beam and put anywhere we want. We can shine it on a local area of the skin or inside an internal orga...

New cell transplantation technique restores insulin production in diabetics

...iabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a debilitating disease that is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. It can result in significant morbidity, causing vision loss, loss of sensation that results in severe infections, fractures and amputations, destruction of major organ function (e.g., th...

Molecular Partners Required For Appropriate Neuronal Gene Repression

... infants to stroke victims to those suffering from debilitating neurological diseases such as MS where repair of damaged myelin does not occur." Sherman shares this hope. "This discovery has revealed a target for therapies and opens the door to the exciting possibility that we may, one day, be able to not only s...

OHSU researchers discover potential mechanism to repair brain damage linked to Multiple Sclerosis

... infants to stroke victims to those suffering from debilitating neurological diseases such as MS where repair of damaged myelin does not occur." Sherman shares this hope. "This discovery has revealed a target for therapies and opens the door to the exciting possibility that we may, one day, be able to not only s...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

...ne to prevent shingles, one of the most common and debilitating illnesses of aging. And among vaccine recipients who did get shingles, the episodes generally were far milder than they otherwise would have been." "For some people, shingles can result in months or even years of misery," comments study leader Micha...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

Gene therapy for arthritis and other non-terminal, debilitating conditions and diseases is both feasible and safe, report researchers who conducted the world's first such test on the approach in patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis. The results, published in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...o relief in the 10% of humanity infected with this debilitating and often fatal disease - over 500,000,000 people. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is collaborating with the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR) and the University of Melbourne to confirm significant heal...

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