However, there is no further deterioration in memory, and some patients may even recover some of their memory capacity, reveals a thesis from the University of…
Previous studies have shown that education offers some degree of protection against the symptoms of disorders of the brain.“This mechanism has previously been…
In a paper published online May 30 in Nature Neuroscience, a team at the University of Rochester Medical Center identifies the molecule adenosine as a central…
“Our results could help address the fact that approximately 40 percent of infertility cases can be traced to male infertility,” said the senior author of the…
“We're finding that some portion of cognitive impairment usually blamed solely on the disease of schizophrenia might actually be a combination of schizophrenia…
To gauge the effect of sarcopenia on insulin resistance (the root cause of Type 2 diabetes) and blood glucose levels in both obese and non-obese people, UCLA…
Yoichi Kato, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and his lab team found that the gene — known in scientific shorthand as BCL6 —…
These findings were described in the May 27 issue of Nature by Jaime Grutzendler, M.D., and colleagues. The study was supported by the National Institute on…
“To our knowledge, this is the first study of time trends for performance measures in a large representative sample of women undergoing screening mammography…
By creating a three-dimensional model, Queen's University biochemistry professor Zongchao Jia and post-doctoral student Jimin Zheng discovered exactly how the…
“Arterial spin labeling is a powerful technique that can help reduce the cost and complexity of examinations,” said the study's lead author, Lukas Scheef,…
Physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have diagnosed a rare parasitic infection in six people who had consumed raw crayfish from…
Kari Hortos, a Michigan State University professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Department of Internal Medicine, was one of seven site…
In the paper “A genome-wide RNA interference screen reveals an essential CREB3L2-ATF5-MCL1 survival pathway in malignant glioma with therapeutic implications,”…
“Current influenza vaccines are effective against only a narrow range of influenza virus strains,” said Peter Palese, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the…
We’ve all heard about the importance of raising HDL, or the so-called “good” cholesterol, and lowering LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, to improve heart health. While we’ve come to assume HDL cholesterol is an inherently good thing, a new study shows that for a certain group of patients, this is not always the case. The study is the first to find that a high level of the supposedly good cholesterol places a subgroup of patients at high risk for recurrent coronary events, such as chest pain, heart attack, and death. …
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