RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM IMAGE: MELANIE MARK FROM THE RUB BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP CREDIT: RUB, MARQUARD Stimulation of certain cerebellar areas could help combat absence seizures. However, what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the brain in this form of epilepsy and how exactly stimulation has an effect is not yet understood in detail....
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK IMAGE: CHROMOSOMES (SHOWN IN PINK) ARE SHARED BY THE SPINDLE (BLUE). MEMBRANES (GREEN) ARE A RISK FACTOR FOR CORRECT CHROMOSOME SHARING. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK When a cell divides abnormally, it does not share the correct number of chromosomes with the two new cells, and this can lead to cancer New research...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)— Overwhelming evidence shows that infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) causes dysfunction of multiple organ systems, including the nervous system. Neurologic symptoms are frequently reported even in patients with mild illness and for some, these neurologic symptoms may persist as part of long-haul COVID. To describe the prevalence,...
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY IMAGE: 3D RENDITION OF T CELLS ATTACKING CANCER CELLS. CREDIT: LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY LA JOLLA—It’s not often that a failed clinical trial leads to a scientific breakthrough. When patients in the UK started showing adverse side effects during a cancer immunotherapy trial, researchers at La Jolla Institute for...
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Embargoed for: 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Gene discovery allows production of inner or outer ear hair cells Death of outer hair cells due to aging or noise cause most hearing loss Master gene switch turns on ear hair cell development CHICAGO — Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer...
by University of Toronto Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new nationally representative study published online in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports found hearing impairment and vision impairment to be independently associated with cognitive impairment. After considering sex, age and other socio-demographic characteristics, older adults with hearing impairment had more than double the odds of cognitive impairment, while those with vision...
by University of East Anglia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the search for eternal youth, poo transplants may seem like an unlikely way to reverse the aging process. However, scientists at the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia have provided evidence, from research in mice, that transplanting fecal microbiota from young into old mice can reverse hallmarks of...
by Mohammed Asheruddin, Indian Institute of Science Soft wearable glove for stroke rehabilitation. Credit: Mesoscopic Lab, Department of Physics, IISc Stroke is India’s third leading cause of death and the sixth leading cause of disability. Physiotherapy is one of the few treatments available for rehabilitating stroke victims and patients with physical injuries. However, physiotherapy can take days to months...
by University of Massachusetts Amherst An interdisciplinary team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has developed a low-cost shoe insole, equipped with force-sensitive resistors (FSR), that aims to improve the management of health conditions that impair mobility, such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease and osteoarthritis. The insole “measures two important kinetic parameters that are relevant to...
Kelli Whitlock Burton April 01, 2022 Patients with persistent cognitive impairment months after illness with mild COVID-19 have higher levels of inflammatory markers in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Researchers found elevated levels of CSF immune activation and immunovascular markers in individuals with cognitive post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Patients whose cognitive symptoms developed during...
