Archive: 04/10/2016

Can you zap your brain back to health? Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain

Rather than taking medication, a growing number of people who suffer from chronic pain, epilepsy and drug cravings are zapping their skulls in the hopes that a weak electric current will jolt them back to health.

Oct 4, 2016

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Can childhood traumas make you old before your time?

(HealthDay)—Childhood trauma might promote faster cellular aging in people, a new study suggests.

Oct 4, 2016

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Impact of cognitive functions on oral cancer therapies

The development of oral cancer drugs as a modality therapy over the last decade has highlighted the problem of non-adherence. Only cancer drugs that are taken can actually work. Contrary to what is expected, a significant ...

Oct 4, 2016

Study highlights gene that could lead to therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have published a new study that describes a novel molecular mechanism that could lead to the development of new therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ...

Oct 4, 2016

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Antibody function may help keep tuberculosis infection under control

A study led by investigators from the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard finds evidence that antibody protection may help control infection with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB). In their study receiving online ...

Oct 4, 2016

Study explains how an intestinal microbe protects against other, more dangerous bacteria

Antibiotics save millions of lives. But their tendency to kill helpful and harmful bacteria alike, coupled with the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, means that they are not without their downside.

Oct 4, 2016

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Study provides insight on why risk-taking behavior increases during adolescence

Adolescents among humans and non-human animals alike are more inclined to engage in heightened risk-taking behavior, exploration and novelty seeking. Although these attributes provide adaptive value in enabling individuals ...

Oct 4, 2016

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Gum disease genes identified

Researchers at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CDM) Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified 41 master regulator genes that may cause gum disease, also known as periodontal disease. The study ...

Oct 4, 2016

Blocking key gene reduces cigarette smoke toxicity in fish embryos

A Duke University-led study shows how exposure to the particulate matter from cigarette smoke may affect early development in zebrafish embryos and increases the risk of neurological disorders and physical deformities.

Oct 4, 2016

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DNA structures called microsatellites play a greater role in cancer than previously thought

Short, unstable stretches of DNA, called microsatellites, may play a far greater role in the development and progression of cancer than previously thought, UW Medicine researchers report in a study appearing Oct. 3 in the ...

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Archive: 04/10/2016

Can you zap your brain back to health? Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain

Can childhood traumas make you old before your time?

Impact of cognitive functions on oral cancer therapies

Study highlights gene that could lead to therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Antibody function may help keep tuberculosis infection under control

Study explains how an intestinal microbe protects against other, more dangerous bacteria

Study provides insight on why risk-taking behavior increases during adolescence

Gum disease genes identified

Blocking key gene reduces cigarette smoke toxicity in fish embryos

DNA structures called microsatellites play a greater role in cancer than previously thought

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