Archive: 25/10/2016

New worm strain to facilitate study of Alzheimer's disease

Researchers from Yale-NUS College have partnered with researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and SingHealth Group to develop a novel Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worm strain which expresses an ...

Oct 25, 2016

Scientists find sight-impaired mice may help vision research

Mice may have poor vision when compared to humans, but how their visual system works when they go after prey may provide insights on how human brains make decisions based on visual cues, say University of Oregon researchers.

Oct 25, 2016

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Questions about quiet group of brain cells lead to new discovery

What started as a project investigating the role of memories in Parkinson's disease patients took Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) researchers Dr. Bin Hu and Taylor Chomiak, PhD, down a ten-year path towards what Hu calls ...

Oct 25, 2016

Can the brain feel it? The world's smallest extracellular needle-electrodes

A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology developed 5-μm-diameter ...

Oct 25, 2016

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People trying quit smoking don't always focus on tobacco cessation

Fifty per cent of statements made by smokers during counselling sessions designed to help them stop have nothing to do with quitting, a UBC study has found.

Oct 25, 2016

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Adolescents do not 'get the gist' when it comes to making risky decisions online

Adolescents are more likely than adults to take online risks, regardless of the gamble involved, according to new research by the University of Plymouth.

Oct 25, 2016

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New research shows dieting success may be hardwired into the brain

A new research paper, by Chen et al in Cognitive Neuroscience, studied the connections between the executive control and reward systems in the brain, and discovered the ability to self-regulate a healthy body weight may be ...

Oct 25, 2016

Peptide-based vaccination against VEGF results in efficient antitumor activity

A research team including professor Peter Timmerman of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has developed a peptide-based vaccine enabling a successful active anti-tumor immunization ...

Oct 25, 2016

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Sleep loss tied to changes of the gut microbiota in humans

Results from a new clinical study conducted at Uppsala University suggest that curtailing sleep alters the abundance of bacterial gut species that have previously been linked to compromised human metabolic health. The new ...

Oct 25, 2016

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FDA approves Merck's Zinplava to reduce recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection

International pharmaceutical company Merck has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Zinplava (its brand name for bezlotoxumab) to reduce recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) ...

Oct 25, 2016

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Archive: 25/10/2016

New worm strain to facilitate study of Alzheimer's disease

Scientists find sight-impaired mice may help vision research

Questions about quiet group of brain cells lead to new discovery

Can the brain feel it? The world's smallest extracellular needle-electrodes

People trying quit smoking don't always focus on tobacco cessation

Adolescents do not 'get the gist' when it comes to making risky decisions online

New research shows dieting success may be hardwired into the brain

Peptide-based vaccination against VEGF results in efficient antitumor activity

Sleep loss tied to changes of the gut microbiota in humans

FDA approves Merck's Zinplava to reduce recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection

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