Archive: 23/11/2016

Mutant prion protein could help reveal neurodegenerative disease mechanisms

For the first time, scientists have isolated a mutated prion protein that can multiply in the lab but not in living animals, according to a PLOS Pathogens study. The mutant prion provides new insights into the mechanisms ...

Nov 23, 2016

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Diet quality low but steadily improving among US kids

On the whole, the diet of U.S. children improved markedly between 1999 and 2012 but it remains poor, said the authors of a new study that examined diet quality data from more than 38,000 kids. Moreover, disparities remain ...

Nov 23, 2016

Going beyond genetics yields clues to challenging childhood brain cancer

Cancer is often seen as a disease of genetic changes. But one type of childhood brain tumor has stymied efforts to identify a recurring genetic defect.

Nov 23, 2016

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Missed connections: As people age, memory-related brain activity loses cohesion

Groups of brain regions that synchronize their activity during memory tasks become smaller and more numerous as people age, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology.

Nov 23, 2016

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Malaria elimination in Sub-Saharan Africa predicted to be possible under right conditions

Malaria elimination in historically high transmission areas like southern Africa is possible with tools that are already available, provided those tools are deployed aggressively - according to new research published in PLOS ...

Nov 23, 2016

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Cancer signaling pathway could illuminate new avenue to therapy

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have better defined a pro-growth signaling pathway common to many cancers that, when blocked, kills cancer cells ...

Nov 23, 2016

An Alzheimer's drug fails, but many others still in testing

Another major Alzheimer's drug study has failed, leaving patients and families wondering if there ever will be a treatment to slow or reverse the most common form of dementia, which afflicts more than 5 million in the United ...

Nov 23, 2016