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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tony Goldberg is not whacking through the brush of central Africa, one of the world's great cauldrons of emerging human and animal disease, he is scouring another disease hot spot: the southwestern suburbs of Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news167582012.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:10:01 EST news167582012 The latest work to 'turn off the taps' in the brain and stop a chemical being released in excess amounts - which can lead to Parkinson's Disease - will be presented at The British Pharmacological Society's Summer Meeting in Edinburgh today (Wednesday, 8 July 2009). http://www.physorg.com/news166251940.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:20:02 EST news166251940 The joint research, funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the UK MS Society as well as the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was conducted by scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and University of Cambridge and was published today in the journal Genes and Development. http://www.physorg.com/news165668931.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:05 EST news165668931 A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine finds no evidence to suggest that a controversial antidote recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to treat patients poisoned with highly toxic insecticides improves their chance of survival. The results may even add weight to existing concerns about pralidoxime, the treatment recommended by the WHO, by suggesting that it could be harmful in patients who have deliberately poisoned themselves with insecticides. http://www.physorg.com/news165565193.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:20:30 EST news165565193 A variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is associated with increased risk for obesity, according to an international study in which Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University played a major role. The research adds to evidence that genes influence appetite and that the brain plays a key role in obesity. http://www.physorg.com/news165217406.html Medicine & Health Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:02 EST news165217406 (PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a link between copper and the normal functioning of prion proteins, which are associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob in humans or "mad cow" disease in cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news165161592.html Chemistry Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:20:01 EST news165161592 Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can be successfully treated using a carefully personalized chemotherapy regimen without cranial radiation, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. Such radiation of the brain was once a standard ALL treatment to prevent recurrence of the leukemia in the central nervous system (CNS). http://www.physorg.com/news165085011.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:03 EST news165085011 Video gaming computers and video game consoles available today typically contain a graphics processing unit (GPU), which is very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics. However, the unit's highly parallel structure also makes it more efficient than a general-purpose central processing unit for a range of complex calculations important to defense applications. http://www.physorg.com/news165059236.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:48:07 EST news165059236 A marker in the blood of both cats and humans that was identified in a recent study might signal both species` susceptibility for a painful bladder disorder called interstitial cystitis, a condition that is often difficult to diagnose. http://www.physorg.com/news164294373.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:20:00 EST news164294373 Women with multiple sclerosis who breastfeed exclusively for at least two months appear less likely to experience a relapse within a year after their baby's birth, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news163697971.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:08 EST news163697971 (PhysOrg.com) -- As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news163175924.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:39:29 EST news163175924 An experimental drug derived from cottonseed shows promise in treating the recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme, widely considered the most lethal brain cancer, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.physorg.com/news162725213.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 10:31:50 EST news162725213 It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the renowned journal Current Biology, a team of molecular biologists led by Pia Aanstad of the University of Innsbruck reports that a variety of molecular mechanisms accounts for the interpretation of the concentration of the signaling molecule Hedgehog. http://www.physorg.com/news162215335.html Biology Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:30 EST news162215335 (PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery made by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital offers new hope for the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. http://www.physorg.com/news162210645.html Chemistry Fri, 22 May 2009 11:31:53 EST news162210645 (AP) -- Japanese computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday that it has successfully developed the world's fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader. http://www.physorg.com/news161600187.html Electronics Fri, 15 May 2009 09:56:53 EST news161600187 Driving Miranda, a protein in fruit flies crucial to switch a stem cell's fate, is not as complex as biologists thought, according to University of Oregon biochemists. They've found that one enzyme (aPKC) stands alone and acts as a traffic cop that directs which roads daughter cells will take. http://www.physorg.com/news161519009.html Biology Thu, 14 May 2009 11:24:08 EST news161519009 Japan's ailing IT giant NEC Corp. said Thursday that it would withdraw from a government-backed supercomputer project as part of its efforts to cut costs during the economic slump. http://www.physorg.com/news161507489.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 08:12:04 EST news161507489 A genetic variant that substantially improves survival of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been indentified by a consortium of researchers led by John Landers, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Robert Brown, MD, DPhil, Chair and Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Discovery of the KIFAP3 gene variant is reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news161315545.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 02:53:46 EST news161315545 Researchers at the Université de Montreal (UdeM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University have discovered that cells which normally support nerve cell (neuron) survival also play an active and major role in the death of neurons in the eye. The findings, published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience, may lead to more streamlined therapies for a variety of acute and chronic neurological disorders, including glaucoma and retinal artery occlusion. http://www.physorg.com/news160912042.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 10:54:38 EST news160912042 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease regained long-term memories and the ability to learn. http://www.physorg.com/news160835025.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 13:24:31 EST news160835025 Ethnicity is having a significant impact on timely access to cardiac care in Calgary and likely across Canada as the population's ethnic diversity grows, according to new research led by a team from the University of Calgary. http://www.physorg.com/news160754247.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 14:57:58 EST news160754247 The sense of smell is a complex process of the central nervous system that involves specific areas of the brain. In fact, olfactory dysfunction is seen in various central nervous system disorders that involve immune-mediated mechanisms, such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that sometimes involves the central nervous system in a condition known as neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE). http://www.physorg.com/news160322968.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:10:09 EST news160322968 (PhysOrg.com) -- The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that allows for such productivity. Crops like potatoes, dry beans and tomatoes have long been protected from bugs and weeds by the fungicide maneb and the herbicide paraquat. http://www.physorg.com/news159542625.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:24:40 EST news159542625 (AP) -- Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him. http://www.physorg.com/news158686123.html Space & Earth Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:28:59 EST news158686123 (AP) -- Federal officials confirmed Monday they found traces of salmonella in a central California pistachio processing plant that sparked a nationwide recall of the nut. http://www.physorg.com/news158301005.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:31:04 EST news158301005 (PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania and University of Wisconsin chemists and anesthesiologists have identified a fluorescent anesthetic compound that will assist researchers in obtaining more precise information about how anesthetics work in the body and will provide a means to more rapidly test new anesthetic compounds in the search for safer and more effective drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news157986643.html Chemistry Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:11:10 EST news157986643 A research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla has identified a protein in the brain of mice that protects neurons from excessive inflammation, which can lead to neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Their study, which identifies the protective function of a protein called Nurr1 and defines the pathway by which it works, will be published in the April 3 edition of the journal Cell. http://www.physorg.com/news157895578.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:56:59 EST news157895578 Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies. http://www.physorg.com/news157718167.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:36:42 EST news157718167 Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley. This is the earliest dated evidence -- by 1200 years -- for the presence and use of domesticated maize. http://www.physorg.com/news157047461.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:19:18 EST news157047461 A newly identified molecular pathway that directs stem cells to produce glial cells yields insights into the neurobiology of Down's syndrome and a number of central nervous system disorders characterized by too many glial cells, according to a recent study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news156174646.html Biology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:51:52 EST news156174646