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Forget about it: Inducible and selective erasure of memories in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Targeted memory erasure is no longer limited to the realm of science fiction. A new study describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain in a controlled ...





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Could Maxwell's Demon Exist in Nanoscale Systems?

Could Maxwell's Demon Exist in Nanoscale Systems?

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 30 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maxwell’s demon may be making a comeback. Physicists know that the demon, an imaginary creature that decreases the entropy of a system, cannot exist in macroscopic systems due to the energy ...


Protected fear memories

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest issue of Science, researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, show how a class of proteins surrounding nerve cells allows fear memories to persis ...


Remembering what to remember and what to forget

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People in very early stages of Alzheimer's disease already have trouble focusing on what is important to remember, a UCLA psychologist and colleagues report.


Can EP4 agonist alleviate gastric lesions?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over 300 million patients use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the world to treat pain, arthritis, fever and other diseases. Nearly 30% of the users suffer from gastric lesions and bleeding. To mitigate NSAIDs' ...


Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...


Enzyme inhibitor takes an unexpected approach toward blocking cancer-promoting protein

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have discovered a unique method of attack that may be used to inhibit signaling enzymes called kinases, which often have a role in sustaining drug-resistant cancerous cells. They have ...


Antitumor activity of nutlin-3 in neuroblastoma with wild-type p53

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The small-molecule inhibitor nutlin-3 may be a viable treatment option for neuroblastoma patients with wild-type p53 activity, according to a new study published online November 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer In ...


Survival of the healthiest: Selective eradication of malignant cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ultimate goal in cancer research, a treatment that kills cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells untouched, is brought nearer by the success of a new therapeutic approach. The potential therapy, published in BioMed ...


Validity of cost-effectiveness models based on randomized clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cost-effectiveness studies are widely used to guide prescribing policy in many countries, as part of health technology assessment programmes. However, a new study published this week in PLoS Medicine by Tjeerd-Pieter van St ...


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Link Between Antidepressants and Birth Defect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Denmark have studied almost half a million Danish children and found a slightly higher rate of septal heart abnormalities in babies whose mothers took an SSRI antidepressant ...



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