Discovery Paves the Way for Earlier Detection of Type 1 Diabetes
Scripps Research Institute via EurekAlert – Roughly 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes, and the incidence rate is increasing for reasons that aren’t fully understood. For…
How Memories Form and Fade
California Institute of Technology via Science Daily – Researchers have identified the neural processes that make some memories fade rapidly while other memories persist over time. To read the original…
Scorpion Toxin That Targets ‘Wasabi Receptor’ May Help Solve Mystery of Chronic Pain
University of California, San Francisco via Science Daily – Researchers have discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the ‘wasabi receptor,’ a chemical-sensing protein found in nerve cells that’s responsible for…
New Approaches to Heal Injured Nerves
Ruhr-University Bochum via EurekAlert – “Although we have so far only shown these effects in genetically modified mice and using gene therapy approaches, these findings open up various possibilities for…
Superheroes Meet 3D Printing to Give Israelis New Hands
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Israeli organization Haifa 3D utilizes cheap and cheerful technology to make bionic hands available to growing numbers of adults and children. Superman, Spiderman, Hello Kitty…
Bioprinting Complex Living Tissue in Just a Few Seconds
Ecole Polytechnique FaDaRale De Lausanne via EurekAlert – “The characteristics of human tissue depend to a large extent on a highly sophisticated extracellular structure, and the ability to replicate this…
Novel Immunotherapy May Prevent Brain Metastases
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Injection of synthetic DNA material found to activate brain’s immune cells and kill invading cancer cells, Israeli researchers say. Brain metastases are the final,…
Newly Discovered Organ Wakes Up Sleeping Stem Cells
Al Sears, MD, CNS – As the researchers started looking deeper into this organ, they noticed that the signals shooting back and forth through the fluid also influenced stem cells. Specifically,…
Optic Nerve Stimulation to Aid the Blind
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne via Science Daily – Scientists are investigating new ways to provide visual signals to the blind by directly stimulating the optic nerve. Their preliminary study…
Removing Cancer’s Protective Barrier Could Boost Immunotherapy Treatments
Cancer Research UK via EurekAlert – “Treatments that work with the immune system to kill cancer often fail because it can be difficult for our body’s defenses to get access…
Researcher Discovers Gene Mutation That Contributes to Addiction
University of Oklahoma via EurekAlert – “Early-life adversity doesn’t make everyone an alcoholic,” Lovallo said. “But this study showed that people with this genetic mutation are going to have a…
Stem Cells: Your Best Ally Against ALL Disease
Al Sears, MD, CNS – This new field of medicine is exciting and echoes what I’ve been telling my patients for years: keep your immune system strong. In the not-so-distant…
Microrobots Show Promise for Treating Tumors
California Institute of Technology via News Wise – “These micromotors can penetrate the mucus of the digestive tract and stay there for a long time. This improves medicine delivery,” Gao…
Concussion Symptoms Reversed by Magnetic Therapy
University of Saskatchewan via EurekAlert – Taghibiglou also found that certain proteins, which are important to protect the brain from various neurological conditions, were restored to their normal level by…
The Answer to a Colon Cancer Mystery
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – “[T]he method of cooking and eating the maize [corn] meal as a porridge results in an increase in resistant starch, which acts…
