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Advanced paternal age associated with risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children

It is no secret that genetic factors play a role in determining whether children have neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternal exposure to drugs and viral or bacterial illnesses can be detrimental too.

21 Apr 2020

Study shows why MDS cells have a competitive advantage that supports disease progression

A powerful clue has emerged in a long-running mystery about how the cells of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) manage to outcompete normal blood cells to cause a disease state that often leads to leukemia, according to a study published online April 20, 2020, in Nature Immunology.

21 Apr 2020

Research could help stabilize and improve brain-computer interfaces

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments.

20 Apr 2020

Discovery could open door to the development of new anti-cancer drugs

A team of scientists led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified the binding site where drug compounds could activate a key braking mechanism against the runaway growth of many types of cancer.

20 Apr 2020

CSIRO researchers unveil new approach to understand evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus strains

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analyzing the genetic codes - or the blueprint - of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

20 Apr 2020

Scientists discover an earlier origin to human language pathway in the brain

Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years.

20 Apr 2020

Using genome-wide CRISPR technology to identify leukemia's weakness

A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer that remains difficult to treat and is marked by frequent relapse.

20 Apr 2020

Male-female cardiac repair differences found in heart failure survival after heart attack

The short-term acute inflammatory response triggered to mend injured cardiac tissue following a heart attack can lead to weakening of the heart's pumping function if the inflammation remains active over the long-term.

20 Apr 2020

Type 2 diabetics secrete too much glucagon when α-cells become insulin resistant

Patients with type 2 diabetes secrete not only too little insulin but also too much glucagon, which contributes to poor blood glucose control.

20 Apr 2020

Study reveals new therapeutic options for multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is known as "the disease with a thousand faces" because symptoms and progression can vary dramatically from patient to patient.

20 Apr 2020

Research pinpoints potential new therapeutic target for retinal degeneration

Multi-disciplinary work led by researchers from Trinity College Dublin has pinpointed a potential new therapeutic target for treating retinal degeneration. The work has discovered that a protein (SARM1) involved in neuronal cell injury may also have a role in the progression of retinal degeneration.

20 Apr 2020

Study shows how interactions between microbiome and the immune system contribute to liver disease

A new study by researchers in the Quadram Institute has provided insights into how interactions between gut microbes and cells of the immune system contribute to cholestatic liver disease.

20 Apr 2020

FAU scientists win $1.7 million NIH grant for research on neuroinflammation

Anxiety, depression and cognitive decline are prominent psychopathologies that together affect more than 40 million people in the United States.

20 Apr 2020

Wind turbine noise has small but significant effect on dream sleep, shows study

Wind turbine noise (WTN) influences people's perception of the restorative effects of sleep, and also has a small but significant effect on dream sleep, otherwise known as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. A night of WTN resulted in delayed and shortened REM sleep.

20 Apr 2020

New neuromorphic memristor mimics the human brain in efficient learning

Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic computing could only dream of a device using miniature tools called memristors that would function/operate like real brain synapses.

20 Apr 2020

Study adds increasing evidence that autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease

A new study co-led by scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology adds increasing evidence that Parkinson's disease is partly an autoimmune disease. In fact, the researchers report that signs of autoimmunity can appear in Parkinson's disease patients years before their official diagnosis.

20 Apr 2020

Researchers identify a promising model for testing COVID-19 therapeutics

After comparing how infections from SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and two other human coronaviruses develop in cynomolgus macaques, researchers report that SARS-CoV-2 gives the animals a mild COVID-19-like disease.

18 Apr 2020

Polycistronic delivery of IL-10 and NT-3 to enhance spinal cord injury repair

Spinal cord injury creates a complex microenvironment that is not conducive to repair; growth factors are in short supply, whereas factors that inhibit regeneration are plentiful.

18 Apr 2020

UC San Diego Health launches serological tests to detect past exposure to novel coronavirus

Clinical laboratory physicians and scientists at UC San Diego Health have launched a pair of serological tests that will look for novel coronavirus antibodies -- evidence in persons tested that they have previously been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the viral cause of COVID-19, even if they never experienced tell-tale symptoms.

18 Apr 2020

MIT researchers devise new way to remotely control hormone release

Abnormal levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol are linked to a variety of mental health disorders, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

18 Apr 2020

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Advanced paternal age associated with risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children

Study shows why MDS cells have a competitive advantage that supports disease progression

Research could help stabilize and improve brain-computer interfaces

Discovery could open door to the development of new anti-cancer drugs

CSIRO researchers unveil new approach to understand evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus strains

Scientists discover an earlier origin to human language pathway in the brain

Using genome-wide CRISPR technology to identify leukemia's weakness

Male-female cardiac repair differences found in heart failure survival after heart attack

Type 2 diabetics secrete too much glucagon when α-cells become insulin resistant

Study reveals new therapeutic options for multiple sclerosis

Research pinpoints potential new therapeutic target for retinal degeneration

Study shows how interactions between microbiome and the immune system contribute to liver disease

FAU scientists win $1.7 million NIH grant for research on neuroinflammation

Wind turbine noise has small but significant effect on dream sleep, shows study

New neuromorphic memristor mimics the human brain in efficient learning

Study adds increasing evidence that autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease

Researchers identify a promising model for testing COVID-19 therapeutics

Polycistronic delivery of IL-10 and NT-3 to enhance spinal cord injury repair

UC San Diego Health launches serological tests to detect past exposure to novel coronavirus

MIT researchers devise new way to remotely control hormone release

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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