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Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

.... Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind." ...

Research links 'ecstasy' to survival of key movement-related cells in brain

...apy for neurodegenerative diseases, it may provide insights for developing new drugs that have similar properties. "It's exciting to learn that an abused drug may have potential use for developing new therapeutics," he added. "It really makes you rethink your own preconceptions." Dopamine is a neurotrans...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

... require less food). The research could provide insights into debates on the evolution of small-bodied species elsewhere in the tropics such as the proposed new hominid, Homo floresiensis, found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. "Whether or not Homo floresiensis ultimately is shown to be a new dw...

Innovative movies show real-time immune-cell activity within tumors

...e trials have proven frustratingly uneven. Greater insights into the mechanisms of interaction between T cells and tumor cells could provide vital new information to advance these efforts. "Through adoptive transfer," Weninger explains, "we were able to compare two situations, one in which the T cells recog...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...e that the techniques established here can provide insights into many disease that involve human immune system failure." No Respite from Toxins The human immune system is actually two systems developed at different points in human evolution. White blood cells of the more primitive innate system, like n...

Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations

...in trafficking pathway. Knapik's model may provide insights into these disorders. "No craniofacial or skeletal deformities ?one of the most prominent human syndromes ?had ever been linked to that pathway," Knapik said. "I'm very excited that now we have an animal model to study." ...

Neural stem cells lend the brain a surprising capacity for self-repair

... the brain's lateral ventricular wall, and further insights into this process should shed light on whether SVZ neural stem cells participate in stroke/trauma-induced brain remodeling and postnatal/adult brain tumor formation. Furthermore, understanding how the SVZ cells participate in local repair should help...

Researchers discover key mechanism by which lethal viruses Ebola and Marburg cause disease

... The investigators are currently exploring whether insights derived from understanding the potency of these immunosuppressive peptides can be exploited to treat autoimmune diseases. ...

Researchers image molecular motor structural changes

...researchers believe their findings may lead to new insights into a number of diseases, including some neuromuscular conditions, such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. These disorders are thought to be linked to deficiencies in transport by the molecular motors of chemical neurotransmitters that carry messages b...

Quantum dots reviewed -- Could these nanoparticles hold the cure to cancer?

... future may hold for Quantum Dots in providing new insights into understanding the pathophysiology of cancer and real time imaging and screening of tumours. The level of details provided in this valuable review paper could easily make up a chapter in an expensive text book. However, this paper is availabl...

U of S Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization team discovers key step in flu virus replication

...search remain to be done, this work provides novel insights for developing live vaccines and antiviral drugs for influenza epidemics and pandemics. A provisional patent has been filed on the findings. "Given the health, economic and social consequences of influenza epidemics, the work of Dr. Zhou and her t...

Scientists discover toxin that causes gastro disease

...He said the research breakthrough may also provide insights into the development of age-related and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, and may be used in the treatment of some cancers....

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...Kauppi. "While complacency would be misplaced, our insights provide grounds for optimism about the prospects for returning forests."...

Scientists explore how complex organs develop from a simple bud

...gh a series of seven laboratory reviews, important insights governing this process during animal development are revealed. The articles analyze how branching morphogenesis occurs in different organ systems in the same species. They also compare the process between simple and complex organisms. Key questions...

Nanoscale microscope sheds first light on gene repair

...cation of these methods will provide unprecedented insights into cellular molecular events," said Bewersdorf. "This study represents a significant advance in our ability to visualize and quantify nuclear proteins in 3D." Bewersdorf, Bennett and Knight examined a protein called H2AX, a kind of histone. Hist...

Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis

... giving up on the whole project." But once again, insights from the past came into play. Masly and Orr, Masly's advisor and professor of biology at the University of Rochester, were talking one day when Orr suddenly recalled an off-hand comment from a scientist named Hermann J. Muller in a paper 60 years ear...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

... minimal systems promises to lead to more exciting insights into the origins of biological complexity," she writes. Chen is currently completing medical school at Harvard and plans to continue to study molecules and evolution. "The cell, as an evolutionary unit, could emerge from replicating molecules thro...

Gene-bender proteins may sway to DNA

...cognize a specific binding site. "Gaining better insights into protein-DNA interactions that control all aspects of gene regulation may prove useful for rational design of drugs to target specific sites on the DNA, whereby one can ultimately develop better gene-based therapies," she said. ...

Origin of inherited pain disorder pinpointed

...dings of abnormal function in disease also provide insights into the normal function of such channels, they said. R. Mark Gardiner, of University College London, and his colleagues published their findings in the December 7, 2006, issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press. So-called "voltage-gat...

Novel pathway regulates timing of brain cell development

...of erbB4 nuclear signaling could provide important insights into the causes of neurodegeneration." In addition, the genes for both NRG1 and erbB4 have been linked to schizophrenia. Corfas speculates that premature formation of astrocytes resulting from altered functioning of these genes causes subtle malfor...

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