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Not All Multiple Sclerosis-Like Diseases are Alike

May 21, 2020
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Sendai, Japan — An antibody appears to make a big difference between multiple sclerosis and other disorders affecting the protective myelin sheath around nerve fibers, report Tohoku University scientists...

New Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat

May 20, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their...

COVID-19 Cytokine Storm: Possible Mechanism for the Deadly Respiratory Syndrome

May 20, 2020
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Hokkaido, Japan —Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible...

Cutting Edge Two-Photon Microscopy System Breaks New Grounds in Retinal Imaging

May 20, 2020
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Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong — Retina is the only part of the central nervous system (CNS) that can be visualized noninvasively with optical imaging approaches. Direct retinal imaging plays an important...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 20, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

COVID-19 Related Strokes, Other Neurological Impact Under Study

May 20, 2020
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Augusta, GA — Traditional stroke treatments like clot-dissolving tPA and surgical removal of big clots in the brain are good choices as well when the stroke results from SARS-CoV-2 infection, investigators...

Nanobowls Serve up Chemotherapy Drugs to Cancer Cells

May 20, 2020
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Washington, DC — For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes — hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers — to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumour cells. But drugs can sometimes...

Artificial Pieces of Brain Use Light to Communicate With Real Neurons

May 20, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces an injured or missing part of the body. You can easily imagine a stereotypical pirate with a wooden leg or Luke Skywalker’s famous...

Antibody Neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 Coronaviruses

May 20, 2020
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Seattle, WA — An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 inhibits related coronaviruses, including the cause of COVID-19. The...

Researcher Envisions Energy and Environment Landscape After COVID-19

May 20, 2020
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Stanford, CA — As people shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have dropped by as much as 17 percent globally, according to a new study by the Global...

New and Diverse Experiences Linked to Enhanced Happiness, New Study Shows

May 19, 2020
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New York, NY — New and diverse experiences are linked to enhanced happiness, and this relationship is associated with greater correlation of brain activity, new research has found. The results, which...

Clinical Trial Shows Ability of Stem Cell-Based Topical Solution to Regrow Hair

May 19, 2020
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Durham, NC — The results of a clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine demonstrate how a topical solution made up of stem cells leads to the regrowth of hair for people with...

How Experiencing Traumatic Stress Leads to Aggression

May 19, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via deep...

Genome-Wide Pattern Found in Tumours from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy

May 19, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) — the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer — has simply...

Study Shows Antiviral Drug can Speed Up Recovery of COVID-19 Patient

May 19, 2020
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Toronto, ON — An international team of researchers led by Dr. Eleanor Fish, emerita scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, and professor in the University...

Enhancement of Bitter Taste Sensor Reduces Salt Intake and Improves Cardiovascular Dysfunction

May 19, 2020
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Chongqing, China — High salt intake is a well-known risk factor of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Reducing salt intake can significantly lower blood pressure and ameliorate target organ...

Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Stroke: COVID-19’s Dangerous Cardiovascular Complications

May 19, 2020
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Charlottesville, VA — COVID-19 can cause serious cardiovascular complications including heart failure, heart attacks and blood clots that can lead to strokes, emergency medicine doctors report in a...

Researchers Discover Potential Targets for COVID-19 Therapy

May 18, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — A team of biochemists and virologists at Goethe University and the Frankfurt University Hospital were able to observe how human cells change upon infection with SARS-CoV-2, the...

Cancer Cells’ Growth Amid Crowding Reveals Nuanced Role for Known Oncogene

May 18, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Like subway com muters on a crowded train, cells generally prefer not to be packed in too tightly. In fact, they have set up mechanisms to avoid this, a phenomenon called “contact...

Vitamin B3 Revitalizes Energy Metabolism in Muscle Disease

May 18, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — An international team of scientists, led by University of Helsinki reported that vitamin B3, niacin, has therapeutic effect in progressive muscle disease. Niacin delayed disease...

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