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What drove the cow mad? Lessons from a tiny fish
Mar 10, 2009 |
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For over twenty years, scientists have known that a normal protein in the brain, PrP, or prion protein, can turn harmful and cause deadly illnesses like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
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Decreased activity of basal ganglia is the main cause of abnormal muscle constrictions in dystonia
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary abnormal muscle constrictions. More than 300,000 people in North America are affected, but the mechanism of abnormal muscle constrictions has not been well ...
Prenatal meth exposure linked to abnormal brain development
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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A first of its kind study examining the effects of methamphetamine use during pregnancy has found the drug appears to cause abnormal brain development in children. The research is published in the April 15, 2009, online issue ...
New CT technology shows anorexia impairs adolescent bone development
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Children and teenagers with even mild cases of anorexia exhibit abnormal bone structure, according to a new study appearing in the December issue of Radiology and presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Societ ...
Blocking formation of toxic plaques implicated in type 2 diabetes
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Amid growing evidence that the same abnormal clumping of proteins in Alzheimer’s disease also contributes to type-2 diabetes, scientists in New York are reporting discovery of a potent new compound that reduces formation ...
Abnormal heart function associated with reduced capacity for exercise
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Patients with abnormal diastolic function (when the heart is relaxed and expanded) in the left ventricle of the heart have a substantially lower maximum capacity for exercise, according to a study in the January 21 issue ...
Researchers determine the composition of centromeric chromatin
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The Stowers Institute's Gerton Lab has provided new evidence to clarify the structure of nucleosomes containing Cse4, a centromere-specific histone protein required for proper kinetochore function, which plays a critical ...
Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at the University at Buffalo have used rational drug design to synthesize small, cell-permeable molecules that are effective in vitro against two common types of myotonic muscular ...
Biologists discover link between CGG repeats in DNA and neurological disorders
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Jan 11, 2009 |
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Researchers have long known that some repetitive DNA sequences can make human chromosomes "fragile," i.e. appearing constricted or even broken during cell divisions. Scientists at Tufts University have found that one such ...
'Addicted' cells provide early cancer diagnosis
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have detected subtle changes that may make the bowel more vulnerable to the development of tumours.
Gene packaging tells story of cancer development
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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To decipher how cancer develops, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators say researchers must take a closer look at the packaging.
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