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Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

An international team of scientists has used gene therapy in two separate studies to renew brain cells and restore normal movements in monkeys and rats with a drug-induced form of Parkinson's disease. The research, detailed online in the scientific publications Brain and The Journal of Neuroscience, essentially describes one strategy to halt Parkinson's disease at its onset and another st...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

An international team of scientists has used gene therapy in two separate studies to renew brain cells and restore normal movements in monkeys and rats with a drug-induced form of Parkinson's disease. The research, detailed online in the scientific publications Brain and The Journal of Neuroscience, essentially describes one strategy to halt Parkinson's disease at its onset and another st...

Scientists move forward understanding of schizophrenia

A Scots-led medical research team has identified a new gene linked to major mental illness that links back to a previously discovered gene known to increase the risk of schizophrenia and depression. Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, together with scientists from the pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp & Dohme Limited, report the discovery of the second gene, phosphod...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

Treena Arinzeh, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who is one of the nation's leading stem cell researchers, has received two grants that will help her bring the promise of stem cell research a step closer to reality. Arinzeh received a $700,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research, a state agency that fu...

A large step forward in the fight against African sleeping sickness

Each year, over 300,000 people die of African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis). Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) connected to the Free University of Brussels are making strides in the battle against this disease. They have coupled the human protein ApoL-1 with a nanobody in order to very specifically eliminate the infection caused by the p...

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Madison wireless deal goes forward with Cellnet

to provide Wi-Fi infrastructure throughout Madison, the deployment will not be an overnight event. Certain areas will be initially served before others, starting with a 9-square-mile area around Capitol Square expected to be approved by the City Council in January and brought on...

Biofuels surge forward

Wisconsin's energy future may include more biobased fuels to reduce the state's reliance on imported oil and reinvigorate rural economies. A recent policy initiative, consortium and related bill from Madison explore ethanol use and production expansion and try to incorporate major industrial sectors into the alternative energy market. "The ultimate objective [of the consortium] is to fi...

A budget that moves Wisconsin forward

The people of our state asked us to do three things with this budget: cut spending and taxes, make education our priority, and freeze propert...

Pushing the Fast-Forward Button on Networking Does It Work?

EAU CLAIRE Lets face it, not all technologists are the life of the party. As much as theyre generally brilliant in their respective fields and even visionary in how they transfer ideas to the marketplace, group dynamics and networking isnt often their strength. In fact, theres even a joke to reinforce the stereotype: How do you know when two techies are talking? Theyre both staring at the other...
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Key step forward on International Health Rules

The global health community has taken a key step towards ensuring rapid action against future outbreaks of infectious diseases and other threats to international public health. A resolution adopted today confirms and underlines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority to verify disease outbreaks from all available official and unofficial sources, and, when necessary to determine th...

Plastic Surgeons Looking Forward To First Full Face Transplant

Trust plastic surgeons to be greedier! Not satisfied with the relative success of the partial face transplant on a French woman, plastic surgeons are hungry to perform the // first full face transplant. Reporting in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery? (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), U.S. plastic surgeons demonstrat...

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

A miracle drug is beginning to light up the lives of thousands of cancer patients, with hope for treating two severe cancers of the kidney and the gut.// Initial examinations of the drug have left a clue of its future use in breast, lung and pancreatic cancers. This drug called Sutent, nicknamed as the “smart” drug works by nipping an important enzyme that causes the cells to prolife...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday promised a "forward-looking" electronics and IT hardware manufacturing policy soon to help realise //late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's dream of building a modern India. Inaugurating an industrial park set up here by Singapore-based Flextronics, Manmohan Singh termed it as a tribute to the memory of Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in this town...

Medical Education in General Practice: A Way Forward

The Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) today called for a nationally co-ordinated capital funding source for the provision of quality education for medical students in the general practice setting. Articles featured in this weeks Medical Journal of Australia have highlighted the need for the expansion of medical education and training within the community care sector. <...

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