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A molecular map of the brain’s decision-making area

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have come one step closer toward understanding how the part of our brain that is central for decision-making and the development of addiction is organized on a molecular level. In mouse models and with methods used for mapping cell types and brain tissue, the researchers were able to visualize...

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Many younger patients with stomach cancer have a distinct disease, Mayo research discovers

MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, Minn. — Many people under 60 who develop stomach cancer have a “genetically and clinically distinct” disease, new Mayo Clinic research has discovered. Compared to stomach cancer in older adults, this new, early onset form often grows and spreads more quickly, has a worse prognosis, and is more resistant to traditional chemotherapy...

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Injection of Virus-Delivered Gene Silencer Blocks ALS Degeneration, Saves Motor Function

Writing in Nature Medicine, an international team headed by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new way to effectively deliver a gene-silencing vector to adult amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mice, resulting in long-term suppression of the degenerative motor neuron disorder if treatment vector is delivered prior to disease onset,...

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Can brain injury from boxing, MMA be measured?

by  American Academy of Neurology For boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters, is there a safe level of exposure to head trauma? A new study shows different effects in the brain for younger, current fighters compared to older, retired fighters. The study is published in the December 23, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal...

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Breaking the dogma: Key cell death regulator has more than one way to get the job done

by  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a new way that the molecule RIPK1 leads to cell death in infected, damaged or unwanted cells showing that more than one mechanism can trigger the process. The findings appeared online today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. “Our findings break...

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Could higher magnesium intake reduce fatal coronary heart disease risk in women?

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC./GENETIC ENGINEERING NEWS New Rochelle, NY, December 23, 2019–A new prospective study based on data from the Women’s Health Initiative found a potential inverse association between dietary magnesium and fatal coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women. The study, which also showed a trend between magnesium and sudden cardiac death in this population,...