Archive: 27/12/2017

Why walking with your doctor could be better than talking with your doctor

Gyms across the country will be packed this week with people vowing to "get moving" to lose weight this year.

Dec 27, 2017

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Computer game highlights stroke paralysis partly due to a lack of 'mental focus'

An inability to focus the brain on tasks may partially explain why paralysis commonly occurs in people following a stroke, according to a news study.

Dec 27, 2017

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Cooling glove helps athletes and patients

A cooling device that has been improving strength and endurance in mostly male athletes for 15 years is finding new uses in helping people with multiple sclerosis live normal lives, preventing overheating in Ebola workers ...

Dec 27, 2017

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Neuroscientists identify a circuit that helps the brain record memories of new locations

When you enter a room, your brain is bombarded with sensory information. If the room is a place you know well, most of this information is already stored in long-term memory. However, if the room is unfamiliar to you, your ...

Dec 27, 2017

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Improved nutrition for extremely low birth weight preemies

At the neonatology ward of the Vienna General Hospital (Medical University Vienna), physicians compared two mixtures of intravenous lipids for nutrition with support coming from the FWF. The researchers found no amelioration ...

Dec 27, 2017

Mitochondrial metabolite linked to regulation of neurotransmission

A team of researchers has discovered a novel level of regulation of the communication between neurons and other cells. The metabolite alpha-ketoglutarate, a product of the metabolism of mitochondria, the energy generators ...

Dec 27, 2017

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Study suggests ways to manipulate T cell migration in autoimmune or inflammatory disease

To eradicate pathogens or counteract inflammation, cells of the immune system move through often rapid blood flow toward peripheral disease sites, such as skin, gut or lung. Thus a goal of immunologists has been to define ...

Dec 27, 2017

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Study establishes benchmarks for HIV vaccine candidates

The development of a vaccine that protects against HIV infections has proven extraordinarily difficult. One of the reasons is that naïve precursor B cells that can give rise to mature B cells producing broadly neutralizing ...

Dec 27, 2017

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New assessment highlights growing impact of diabetes in southeast Ohio

The Centers for Disease Control have found that diabetes is more common in Appalachia than in the nation as a whole. And according to a recent needs assessment by the Diabetes Institute at the Ohio University Heritage College ...

Dec 27, 2017

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Understanding the molecular mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Scientists have revealed more details of the molecular mechanism behind neuronal cell death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a step toward controlling progression of the disease.

Dec 27, 2017

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