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Sophisticated chip mimics the effects of osteoarthritis to develop effective drugs

A sophisticated chip the size of a coin in which cartilage can be cultivated and which can later be subjected to mechanical stress such that it generates the effects of Osteoarthrosis.

25 Aug 2019

Caltech researchers determine how memories form and fade

Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven't seen in years yet easily forget the name of a person you just met a moment ago? In other words, why are some memories stable over decades, while others fade within minutes?

25 Aug 2019

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

Jason was hallucinating. He was withdrawing from drugs at an addiction treatment center near Indianapolis, and he had hardly slept for several days.

23 Aug 2019

New insights into improving function, independence and quality of life in cerebral palsy patients

Cerebral palsy is one of the most common movement disorders in children. A growing number of caregivers worldwide are caring for children, adolescents and adults with child-onset CP.

23 Aug 2019

Eye-tracking tests may help identify people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

New research has found that it may be possible to predict if people with mild memory and thinking impairments will go onto develop Alzheimer's disease using eye-tracking technology.

23 Aug 2019

Heart attack patients with mild cognitive impairment less likely to receive proven treatment

A new study finds people who have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which lies on the continuum of cognitive decline between normal cognition and dementia, are less likely to receive proven heart attack treatment in the hospital.

22 Aug 2019

Study: Lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants associated with frailty

Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging at Trinity College Dublin have shown in the largest study to date that lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants are associated with frailty.

22 Aug 2019

Enzyme induced by stress associated with liver cancer growth

An enzyme induced by stress to help reduce production of damaging free radicals is also used by liver cancer to regulate two major cell proliferation pathways that enable the cancer to thrive, scientists report.

22 Aug 2019

New computational modeling technology to noninvasively assess likelihood of heart attack

The National Science Foundation has awarded $550,000 to fund a collaborative new research project to develop a noninvasive, computational modeling technology for assessing the likelihood of a heart attack in patients with high levels of plaque buildup in their arteries -- the primary cause of heart attack in the U.S. today.

22 Aug 2019

BU researcher receives NIH grant to study childhood adversity and later life health outcomes

Lewina Lee, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and clinical research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston, has received a five-year, $3.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging to establish the Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study.

22 Aug 2019

Research examines role of Nicotinamide in preventing retinal cell damage caused by glaucoma

Fight for Sight is funding researchers at Cardiff University to examine the extent to which dietary supplementation of Nicotinamide – a form of vitamin B3 – can be used to reduce, and even prevent, retinal damage caused by glaucoma.

21 Aug 2019

Middle-life hypertension may shrink the brain in later life

A long-running study which ha been following up people into their seventies concludes that high blood pressure between the age of 36 and 53 years is associated with brain pathology such as white matter lesions and brain shrinkage in later life. To prevent this, blood pressure should be monitored beginning at or before 40 years, suggest the researchers.

21 Aug 2019

Online brain games could help elderly improve cognitive abilities

Researchers from the University of California Irvine, have found that spending time playing online brain game exercises could be beneficial for septuagenarians and octogenarians in terms of their cognitive abilities.

20 Aug 2019

Using principles of mechanics and physics to identify state of individual cells

Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have discovered a new way to identify the state of individual cells by bringing principles of mechanical engineering and physics to bear on processes that are now well understood at the macro level, but not yet at the cellular level: how stressors such as injury and disease force an organism into a new level of equilibrium -- a biological process of finding a "new normal" called allostasis.

20 Aug 2019

Umea researchers' model reveals why memory deteriorates as the body ages

Researchers in Umeå, Sweden, have presented a model that explains why memory deteriorates as the body ages. With age, the brain receives an increased load from the heart's beating as the body's large arteries stiffen over the years, causing damage to the smallest blood vessels in the brain.

20 Aug 2019

Aging News and Research

Sophisticated chip mimics the effects of osteoarthritis to develop effective drugs

Caltech researchers determine how memories form and fade

Addiction clinics market pricey, unproven treatments to desperate patients

New insights into improving function, independence and quality of life in cerebral palsy patients

Eye-tracking tests may help identify people at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Heart attack patients with mild cognitive impairment less likely to receive proven treatment

Study: Lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants associated with frailty

Enzyme induced by stress associated with liver cancer growth

New computational modeling technology to noninvasively assess likelihood of heart attack

BU researcher receives NIH grant to study childhood adversity and later life health outcomes

Research examines role of Nicotinamide in preventing retinal cell damage caused by glaucoma

Middle-life hypertension may shrink the brain in later life

Online brain games could help elderly improve cognitive abilities

Using principles of mechanics and physics to identify state of individual cells

Umea researchers' model reveals why memory deteriorates as the body ages

Online brain games can enable older people to multitask cognitively like younger individuals

Rutgers studies find prevalence of elder abuse in the Chinese American community

Unsatisfied Chinese Americans' expectations lead to increased mortality risks

Northwestern scientists receive $3.1 million grant to investigate drug therapies for ALS

Fruit fly model for studying diseases like gout, kidney stones reveals new drug targets

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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