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NSAIDs prevent early sign of Alzheimer disease in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If taking nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or naproxen is to protect you from developing Alzheimer disease then you will have to start taking them at a very early age according to new research ...


Polycystins : proteins that regulate the cellular barometer

Polycystins : proteins that regulate the cellular barometer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What is the role of proteins called polycystins in patients with polycystic kidney disease? A team of researchers from CNRS and INSERM, led by Eric Honoré from the Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire ...


Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.


Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode ...


Study targets stroke prevention in children with sickle cell anemia

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators were recently awarded a $23 million federal grant to launch a national study of the drug hydroxyurea to prevent first strokes in children and adolescents with sickle cell ...


Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT cancer biologists have identified a subpopulation of cells that can give rise to pancreatic cancer. They also found that tumors can form in other, more mature pancreatic cell types, but ...


Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites ...


Novel mouse gene reduces major pathologies associated with Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new study reveals that a previously undiscovered mouse gene reduces the two major pathological perturbations commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the November 12 issue ...


Slipper-shaped blood cells

Slipper-shaped blood cells

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Red blood cells, which make up 45 percent of blood, normally take the shape of circular cushions with a dimple on either side. But they can sometimes deform into an asymmetrical slipper shape. A team of physicists ...


Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...



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