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Robotic joystick reveals how brain controls movement

...hing movement. "Rehab is about training, and you want to be able to train the slow-learning system to be successful," says Shadmehr. As a next step, the team is interested in uncovering which parts of the brain are responsible for slow-learning. They hope that teasing this system apart will not only im...

Production of key Alzheimer's protein monitored for first time in humans

... trials to see if the drug is really doing what we want it to do in terms of Abeta metabolism," Bateman says. "If further study confirms the validity of our test, it could be very valuable for determining which drugs go forward in clinical trials and at what doses." The test also may be useful in diagno...

Study reveals how ADHD drugs work in brain

...ys Berridge, "In particular it tells us that if we want to produce new ADHD drugs, we need to target [neurotransmitter] transmission in the PFC." In the future, Berridge and his colleagues plan to look deeper within the PFC to gain more detailed insights into how ADHD meds act on nerves to enhance cognit...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

...ys. "These are key questions: which species do we want to track and exactly where do we wire up the world to create an effective global system of watching the oceans in motion," says Dr. O'Dor. Continental shelves average about 80 km (50 mi) wide, and the edge of the shelf occurs at an average depth of ...

Revolution in the fight against cancer & viruses

...arget specific diseases, we can dictate whether we want a particular siRNA-based drug to block or promote an immune response, to increase the effectiveness of the treatment," he said. "While our research is at an early stage, human trials using siRNA are currently underway in the USA and Europe. We're co...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

..."This is an extremely dangerous infection, and you want to catch it as early as possible," Robinson said. ...u don't invade the biological environment that you want to measure," Rajwa said. "If you are working with stem cells, you don't want to stain them to see if...

Honey helps problem wounds

...agues from Düsseldorf, Homburg and Berlin they now want to test the experience gained in a large-scale stu...rf, Homburg and Berlin, the Bonn medical staff now want to remedy this. With the Woundpecker Data Bank, which they have developed themselves, they will be r...

Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds

...his study's findings, said Weston, authorities may want to consider advising residents to leave their outdoor furniture unused in the sun for a day or two to let the pyrethrin and PBO residue degrade rather than send the runoff into the creeks. ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

...icy cuisine. Drink red wine. Enjoy coffee when you want it, have that orange juice with breakfast and, what the heck, eat a grapefruit, too. Gerson says that for most heartburn patients, there's insufficient evidence to support the notion that eating these foods will make heartburn worse - or that cutting...

Ritalin packs punch by elevating norepinephrine, suppressing nerve signal transmissions

...nes, produces its therapeutic effects. Researchers want to unlock the mystery of why the drug has the para...in which hyperactivity isn't a symptom. They also want to know whether Ritalin has any toxic or long-lasting effects, not only for ADHD patients, but also ...

Better beetle sought for salt cedar control

...ve work on those figures in ourlab at Bushland. We want to determine how many eggs they lay, the lifecycle...ay in a lifetime." Damage is what the researchers want to start seeing, Carney said. ThePosidi beetles at Lake Meredith defoliate small branches, but the d...

With cochlear implants, earlier use leads to better speech

...e window of time for the best outcome is small, we want parents to know that. With the results we've seen ...hen the child is younger than 24 months if parents want a deaf child to use spoken language at the same level as their hearing peers." Nicholas is also on...

Researchers find molecular 'brake' to cell death

...asing a lot of CC, he says. Tumor cells also don't want to decrease their nucleotide pool, because they need ATP for continued functioning, he says. "An optimal cancer therapy should combine both strategies," Tang says. "They should maximize release of CC and maximize the decrease of nucleotide levels." ...

Just the expectation of a mirthful laughter experience boosts endorphins 27 percent, HGH 87 percent

... magazines that they can browse, because you don't want to bias what they do or watch. Time and behavior have proved me right with this approach," he added. Earlier experiments showed stress reduction Berk said the results of this "anticipatory mirthful laughter experience, which is a kind of eustres...

Life, the remake

... predictable, perhaps more predictable than people want to imagine," Vermeij said. "Many traits are so adv...erent forms. Barnacles, for example, "desperately want to be mollusks," Vermeij said, although they are actually crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters....

Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population

... falling below minimal levels, she said. "We don't want to put them in nutritionally stressed situation that would harm them," Polasek said. "We don't want to drop the fat too low, but we want to know how seals respond to a restricted fat diet." Starting...

Marrow-derived stem cells deliver new cytokine to kill brain tumor cells, offer protection

...the stem cells from bone marrow, mirroring what we want to do clinically, which is to take bone marrow cel...IL). "Each cytokine has unique functions. What we want to do is marry the function with the therapeutic response we want to achieve. Interleukin-23 promote...

Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare

... brain injury or death," he explains. "We may also want to look at whether there are ways to end natalizumab's effects on a patient more quickly." The links between natalizumab and PML onset are still unclear, but based on their prior dealings with the disorder, PML experts like Clifford strongly suspect...

Thinner and younger

...striction might do the same thing for humans. "We want to learn whether calorie restriction can reverse some of these markers of aging in healthy young people," Holloszy says. "It's going to be many years before we know whether calorie restriction really lengthens life, but if we can demonstrate that it ...

'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate

...heir reproductive success. "On the one hand, they want to provision themselves to survive this trip," says Andrade. "On the other hand, they have to develop quickly so that they become sexually mature in time to mate with these virgin females before the females mate with someone else." These are opposing...

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