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Research provides new target to help treat chemotherapy-induced diarrhea

Some 50 to 80 percent of cancer patients taking powerful chemotherapy drugs develop diarrhea, which can be severe and in some cases life-threatening.

27 Jun 2018

New approach needed to treat type 2 diabetes in youth

A major study has found that medicines used to treat diabetes in adults are not effective on youth. The researchers say the finding is disturbing because type 2 diabetes among youth is a growing problem.

27 Jun 2018

Polio virus could help brain cancer patients

According to researchers genetically altered poliovirus strains could help some patients of brain cancer. A team of researchers from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, used modified polio virus strains in small groups of patients who had glioblastoma – a particularly deadly form of brain cancer. In these patients standard treatments have failed say the researchers and this novel therapy could help.

27 Jun 2018

Serotonin enhances speed of learning, study finds

An international team from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Portugal, and the University College London, in the UK, has uncovered a previously unknown effect of serotonin on learning.

26 Jun 2018

Eye could be a surrogate for brain degeneration like AD

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast have shown for the first time that the eye could be a surrogate for brain degeneration like Alzheimer's disease (AD).

25 Jun 2018

Study links molecular changes in the brain to key behaviors in addiction

Changes in a brain signaling system contribute to the development of alcohol addiction-like behaviors in rats, according to a new study led by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden.

25 Jun 2018

Scientists identify immune cells that remove degenerating neurons after brain injury

Researchers have identified the immune cells that are responsible for clearing dead and dying nerve cells following a brain injury.

25 Jun 2018

Study: Broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in patients with brain disorders

Unable to carry signals based on sights and sounds to the genes that record memories, a broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in patients with intellectual disability, schizophrenia, and autism.

22 Jun 2018

UC Riverside researcher receives grants to advance cancer, ALS research

Maurizio Pellecchia, who holds the Daniel Hays Chair in Cancer Research at the University of California, Riverside, has received two grants to continue his research aimed at finding therapeutics for cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other neurodegenerative diseases.

21 Jun 2018

Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals wins NINDS grant to advance novel therapies for ALS

Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals, leaders in stress granule biology, an exciting new target for the development of neurodegenerative therapeutics, announced today that it has been awarded $3.4 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in a competing grant to advance novel therapeutic drug candidates towards the clinic for treating patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

21 Jun 2018

Researchers create electronic skin that brings back real sense of touch to prosthetic limbs

Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there.

21 Jun 2018

UT Southwestern scientists identify gene mutation linked with perplexing brain condition

Scientists conducting one of the largest full DNA analyses of a rare disease have identified a gene mutation associated with a perplexing brain condition that blinds and paralyzes patients.

20 Jun 2018

Dual-therapy approach can help boost motor recovery in stroke victims

Paralysis of an arm and/or leg is one of the most common effects of a stroke. But thanks to research carried out by scientists at the Defitech Foundation Chair in Brain-Machine Interface, in association with other members of EPFL's Center for Neuroprothetics, the Clinique Romande de Réadaptation in Sion, and the Geneva University Hospitals, stroke victims may soon be able to recover greater use of their paralyzed limbs.

20 Jun 2018

Targeting cells involved in blood vessel formation could hinder brain tumor growth

A type of highly malignant brain tumor contains a large number of cells involved in the formation of new blood vessels, helping it proliferate and spread.

20 Jun 2018

Study provides insights into how components of different cells in the brain are altered

Scientists have revealed that protein molecules in the brain are broken down and replaced at different rates, depending on where in the brain they are.

20 Jun 2018

Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease over age 65 continue to derive benefit from DBS-f treatment

An age group analysis of data from the ADvance trial has shown that participants over the age of 65 continue to derive the most benefit from Deep Brain Stimulation of the fornix, as observed in the data from the phase 2 findings (12 - 24 months) of the Phase II trial.

19 Jun 2018

SetPoint announces positive long-term results of bioelectronic medicine to treat rheumatoid arthritis

SetPoint Medical, a clinical-stage biomedical technology company developing bioelectronic therapy for chronic inflammatory diseases, announced positive long-term data for its first-in-human study using bioelectronic medicine for rheumatoid arthritis

19 Jun 2018

Study finds more information about how gene linked to ASD affects the brain

New preclinical research shows a gene already linked to a subset of people with autism spectrum disorder is critical to healthy neuronal connections in the developing brain, and its loss can harm those connections to help fuel the complex developmental condition.

18 Jun 2018

Diabetes diagnosis may come with increased risk of pancreatic cancer for African-Americans, Latinos

Each year, more than one million Americans are diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes mellitus, also known as type 2 diabetes. The new diagnosis comes with a long list of potential complications: high blood pressure, nerve damage, kidney disease, stroke, glaucoma and more.

18 Jun 2018

MSU scientists discover early cause of intestinal inflammation

Michigan State University scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world's population.

14 Jun 2018

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Research provides new target to help treat chemotherapy-induced diarrhea

New approach needed to treat type 2 diabetes in youth

Polio virus could help brain cancer patients

Serotonin enhances speed of learning, study finds

Eye could be a surrogate for brain degeneration like AD

Study links molecular changes in the brain to key behaviors in addiction

Scientists identify immune cells that remove degenerating neurons after brain injury

Study: Broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in patients with brain disorders

UC Riverside researcher receives grants to advance cancer, ALS research

Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals wins NINDS grant to advance novel therapies for ALS

Researchers create electronic skin that brings back real sense of touch to prosthetic limbs

UT Southwestern scientists identify gene mutation linked with perplexing brain condition

Dual-therapy approach can help boost motor recovery in stroke victims

Targeting cells involved in blood vessel formation could hinder brain tumor growth

Study provides insights into how components of different cells in the brain are altered

Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease over age 65 continue to derive benefit from DBS-f treatment

SetPoint announces positive long-term results of bioelectronic medicine to treat rheumatoid arthritis

Study finds more information about how gene linked to ASD affects the brain

Diabetes diagnosis may come with increased risk of pancreatic cancer for African-Americans, Latinos

MSU scientists discover early cause of intestinal inflammation

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