Archive: 27/04/2016

'Walk-DMC' aims to improve surgery outcomes for children with cerebral palsy

Children with cerebral palsy frequently undergo invasive surgeries—lengthening tendons, rotating bones, transferring muscles to new locations—in hopes of improving their physical ability to walk or move.

Apr 27, 2016

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Computational model finds new protein-protein interactions in schizophrenia

Using a computational model they developed, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered more than 500 new protein-protein interactions (PPIs) associated with genes linked to schizophrenia. ...

Apr 27, 2016

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Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

The ability of children to speak any two dialects - two closely related varieties of the same language—may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak two or more substantially ...

Apr 27, 2016

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Exercise genes? Study suggests certain people with depression may benefit from exercise

Call it personalized medicine for depression—but the prescription in this case is exercise, which University of Florida Health researchers have found helps people with certain genetic traits.

Apr 27, 2016

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Fireflies light the way to female HIV transmission

Finding the vulnerable points where HIV enters the female reproductive tract is like searching for needles in a haystack. But Northwestern Medicine scientists have solved that challenge by creating a glowing map of the very ...

Apr 27, 2016

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Hot melt extruded and injection moulded dosage forms

Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) and Injection Moulding (IM) are becoming more prevalent in the drug delivery field due to their advantages over current pharmaceutical manufacturing techniques. HME is a continuous process that can ...

Apr 27, 2016

Study reveals COPD linked to increased bacterial invasion

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common smoking-related lung illness and the third leading cause of death in the United States. Scientists have long believed that inhaling toxic gases and particles from tobacco ...

Apr 27, 2016

Scientists discover a surprising central role of darks in brain visual maps

Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks. Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps ...

Apr 27, 2016

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Brain's 'thesaurus' mapped to help decode inner thoughts

What if a map of the brain could help us decode people's inner thoughts?

Apr 27, 2016

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Dexamethasone for asthma in the ER: Better compliance, nearly equal effectiveness

Adults with asthma who were treated with one-dose dexamethasone in the emergency department had only slightly higher relapse than patients who were treated with a 5-day course of prednisone. "Enhanced compliance and convenience ...

Apr 27, 2016

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