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Stimulating a bile acid receptor can help protect the vision of premature newborns

It sounds like bile acid in the eye would hurt, but scientists think stimulating one of its receptors can actually help protect the vision of premature newborns.

30 May 2023

New research shows astrocytes are key to swaying the pendulum in Alzheimer's disease progression

Why do some people develop Alzheimer's disease while others don't? And, even more puzzlingly, why do many individuals whose brains are chock-full of toxic amyloid aggregates - a telltale sign of Alzheimer's brain pathology - never go on to develop Alzheimer's-associated dementias?

29 May 2023

Penn State researchers create first protein-based nano-computing agent

The first protein-based nano-computing agent that functions as a circuit has been created by Penn State researchers.

26 May 2023

Research could help develop better treatments for swallowing disorders

Sensory cells in the vagus nerve can detect and locate food in the esophagus. Their signals help transport the food onward to the stomach. Signal failure leads to swallowing disorders, say a team led by Carmen Birchmeier at the Max Delbrück Center.

26 May 2023

Defective proteins involved in ER-phagy can cause neurodegenerative diseases

Our cells are crisscrossed by a system of membrane tubes and pockets called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It is crucial for the production of biomolecules and is continuously built up and degraded.

26 May 2023

Tracking changes in blood vessels may hold clues to early detection of neurodegenerative diseases

While age-related brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease often develop slowly across an individual's lifetime, they usually aren't detected until symptoms have already started.

26 May 2023

Fibromyalgia causes structural brain changes

Pain-processing regions are particularly affected by changes in brain volume. The good news is that these changes may be reversible.

26 May 2023

RECOVER study: An important step toward defining long COVID

A study led by the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health, home to the effort's Clinical Science Core (CSC), provides an expanded working definition of long COVID.

25 May 2023

UQ neuroscientists uncover how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in schizophrenia

Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have uncovered how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in schizophrenia, using new technology.

25 May 2023

Importance of analyzing the impact of life stressors on those with MS

A Michigan Medicine-led study finds that stressors across the lifespan - including poverty, abuse and divorce - are associated with worsening health and functional outcomes for people with multiple sclerosis.

25 May 2023

Cancer researchers join together to fight lethal childhood brain cancer

Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have joined a Children's National Hospital effort to treat deadly brain tumors with ultrahigh frequency sound waves.

22 May 2023

Blood vessel abnormalities in the eye could drive Alzheimer's disease

Blood vessel abnormalities in the eye are a major factor in the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to research from Cedars-Sinai investigators published in the peer-reviewed journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.

22 May 2023

Valbenazine improves chorea associated with Huntington's disease

The drug valbenazine statistically improves chorea, a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington's disease, when compared to a placebo, according to a recent international study led by UTHealth Houston researcher Erin Furr Stimming, MD, who served as principal investigator on behalf of the KINECT-HD Huntington Study Group.

19 May 2023

Biosensor Versatility; From Analytical Chemistry to Diagnostics

At Pittcon 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we spoke to this year's recipient of the Ralph N. Adams Award in Analytical Chemistry, Professor Joseph Wang to discuss the versatility of biosensor technologies.

From Pittcon 18 May 2023

Oral cancer game-changer: Researchers develop 'normalized nerve density' metric for tumor assessment

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17 May 2023

Magnetic stimulation therapy can help reduce the debilitating symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis

Magnetic stimulation of a group of nerves key to how our gut and brain communicate may help correct the conversation that goes awry in painful, debilitating diabetic gastroparesis, researchers say.

16 May 2023

Biomedical engineering students create low-cost robotic arm as an alternative to conventional prostheses

ARM2u is a multidisciplinary biomedical engineering team made up of 15 students on the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology Engineering, the master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and the master’s degree in Automatic Control and Robotics at the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC).

16 May 2023

Nerve News and Research

Stimulating a bile acid receptor can help protect the vision of premature newborns

New research shows astrocytes are key to swaying the pendulum in Alzheimer's disease progression

Penn State researchers create first protein-based nano-computing agent

Research could help develop better treatments for swallowing disorders

Defective proteins involved in ER-phagy can cause neurodegenerative diseases

Tracking changes in blood vessels may hold clues to early detection of neurodegenerative diseases

Fibromyalgia causes structural brain changes

RECOVER study: An important step toward defining long COVID

UQ neuroscientists uncover how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in schizophrenia

Importance of analyzing the impact of life stressors on those with MS

Cancer researchers join together to fight lethal childhood brain cancer

Blood vessel abnormalities in the eye could drive Alzheimer's disease

Valbenazine improves chorea associated with Huntington's disease

Biosensor Versatility; From Analytical Chemistry to Diagnostics

Oral cancer game-changer: Researchers develop 'normalized nerve density' metric for tumor assessment

Magnetic stimulation therapy can help reduce the debilitating symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis

Biomedical engineering students create low-cost robotic arm as an alternative to conventional prostheses

Higher sunlight and vitamin D exposure is associated with a lower likelihood of having high perceived stress

A machine-learning approach for the early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

Nervous system of people with post-Covid fatigue found to be underactive in three key areas

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

How microplastics and bacteria interact to drive antibiotic resistance

Single-cell proteomics: Revealing proteome diversity from cellular heterogeneity to non-canonical biology

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