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News tagged with mouse model
Researchers discover the first-ever link between intelligence and curiosity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered a molecular link between intelligence and curiosity, which may lead to the development ...
Alzheimer's researchers find high protein diet shrinks brain
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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One of the many reasons to pick a low-calorie, low-fat diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and fish is that a host of epidemiological studies have suggested that such a diet may delay the onset or slow the progression of Alzheimer's ...
Scientists identify enzyme important in aging
Jul 10, 2009 |
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The secret to longevity may lie in an enzyme with the ability to promote a robust immune system into old age by maintaining the function of the thymus throughout life, according to researchers studying an "anti-aging" mouse ...
New study pinpoints gene controlling number of brain cells (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 04, 2009 |
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In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes - proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials - and differentiation, in which ...
Researchers effectively treat tumors with use of nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 03, 2009 |
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By injecting man-made, microscopic tubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, scientists have discovered a way to effectively kill kidney tumors in nearly 80 percent of mice. Researchers say ...
Traffic jam in brain causes schizophrenia symptoms
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Schizophrenia waits silently until a seemingly normal child becomes a teenager or young adult. Then it swoops down and derails a young life.
Some mice stem cells divide in unexpected ways
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new genetic tools, Cornell researchers have found that some stem cells in mice behave dramatically different than in fruit flies, where most of the pioneering stem cell work has been ...
Drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A potential new drug for lung cancer has eliminated tumours in 50% of mice in a new study published today in the journal Cancer Research. In the animals, the drug also stopped lung cancer ...
Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...
Scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness
Feb 07, 2009 |
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Though based on mouse studies, the research bolsters the idea that humans suffering from these and other eye conditions may be able to help preserve function by adding antioxidants to their diet, and explains why this would ...
Disruption of immune-system pathway key step in cancer progression
May 18, 2009 |
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Human immune cells communicate constantly with one another as they coordinate to fight off infection and other threats. Now researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine have shown that muffling a key voice in this ...
Unlikely genetic suspect implicated in common brain defect
Aug 09, 2009 |
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A genetic search that wound its way from patients to mouse models and back to patients has uncovered an unlikely gene critically involved in a common birth defect which causes mental retardation, motor delays ...
The Nobel Prize and Pond Scum as a 'Model' Organism
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A man is a man and a mouse is a mouse, but if you talk to a few biomedical scientists about their research, at least one is likely to spring the term “mouse model” on you.
Researchers find a weak link in cancer cell armor
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Robert Weiss has found that when two particular genes are inhibited, cancer cells are destroyed at a greater rate. The study is published in the Nov. 9 issue of PNAS.
Delaying the aging process protects against Alzheimer's disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Aging is the single greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. In their latest study, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that simply slowing the aging process in mice prone to ...
