Two cardiovascular proteins pose a double whammy in Alzheimer's

Biology /

Dec 21, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

Researchers have found that two proteins which work in tandem in the brain's blood vessels present a double whammy in Alzheimer's disease. Not only do the proteins lessen blood flow in the brain, but they also reduce the ...

New 'smart' materials for the brain

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 21, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, are a ...

Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find

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Dec 21, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

Modern humans left Africa over 60,000 years ago in a migration that many believe was responsible for nearly all of the human population that exist outside Africa today.

Patient-derived induced stem cells retain disease traits

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 21, 2008 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen's lab dishes, he couldn't have been more pleased.The dying cells – the same type lost in patients with the devastating neurological disease spinal ...

Newly identified gene powerful predictor of colon cancer metastasis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

Dec 21, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

Cancer Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité – Universitäts Medizin Berlin (Germany) have identified a gene which enables them to predict for the first time with high ...

Ariane rocket puts telecom satellites into orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 21, 2008 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites into geostationary ...

Snails and humans use same genes to tell right from left

Biology /

Dec 21, 2008 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have tracked down genes that control the handedness of snail shells, and they turn out to be similar to the genes used by humans to set up the left and right sides of the body.