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Nearly a century later, new findings support Warburg theory of cancer

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

German scientist Otto H. Warburg's theory on the origin of cancer earned him the Nobel Prize in 1931, but the biochemical basis for his theory remained elusive.





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Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...


Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms

Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Schizophrenia waits silently until a seemingly normal child becomes a teenager or young adult. Then it swoops down and derails a young life.


Mice holding back muscular dystrophy research

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Humans and mice have previously unknown and potentially critical differences in one of the genes responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have found that t ...


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Intel wants a chip implant in your brain

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 50

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.


Generation of a severe memory-deficit mutant mouse by exclusively eliminating the kinase activity of CaMKIIalpha

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Japanese research group, led by Dr. Yoko Yamagata of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, has successfully generated a novel kinase-dead mutant mouse of the CaMKIIalpha gene that completely and exclusively ...


Mouse Model Provides Clues to Human Language Development

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists of the German Mouse Clinic at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen (Germany) have made a major contribution to understanding human language development. Using a comprehensive screening method, they studied a mouse model ...


Drug That Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier Reduces Formation of Brain Metastases in Mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The drug vorinostat is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and reduce the development of large metastatic tumors in mice brains by 62 percent when compared to mice that did not receive the drug, according ...


Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?

Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with "golden ears" - mice that have outstanding hearing as they age.


Progress towards Alzheimer's vaccine: Israeli researcher

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Israeli researcher working on a vaccine to combat Alzheimer's disease said on Monday he had made important progress following tests on gene-altered laboratory mice.


Transplanted human stem cells prolong survival in mouse model of rare brain disease

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study finds substantial improvement in a mouse model of a rare, hereditary neurodegenerative disease after transplantation of normal human neural stem cells. The research findings, published by Cell Press in the September ...



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