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Omega-3 fatty acids protect the brain against Parkinson’s disease, according to a study by Université Laval researchers published in the online edition of the FASEB Journal, the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. T ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2007 - 9:26am - 0 attachments

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, gained new insights into autophagy -- a cellular degradation process associated with a form of programmed cell death -- by studying the salivary gland cells of the fruit fly. Since its i ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2007 - 1:46pm - 0 attachments

... diseases such as acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, Alzheimer's and other vascular disorders. The Company's secondary focus is ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 10 2007 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

... also may go awry in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, promotes synapse development. "There are still a lot of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2007 - 1:02pm - 0 attachments

An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden and other institutions. Mad cow dise ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2007 - 11:30am - 0 attachments

A variant of the gene CDC2 could possibly be used as a risk marker for Alzheimer’s disease. The gene variant is considerably more common among Alzheimer’s patients. This is shown in a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in S ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2007 - 11:30am - 0 attachments

The observation that males evolve more quickly than females has been around since 19th century biologist Charles Darwin noted the majesty of a peacock’s tail feather in comparison with the plainness of the peahen’s. No matter the species, males appa ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2007 - 6:04pm - 0 attachments

A drug commonly used to treat severe acne can lead to depressive behaviour in mice, according to research published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Since the drug’s introduction in the early 1980s there have been controversial reports of de ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2007 - 12:20am - 0 attachments

A diet rich in fish, omega-3 oils, fruits and vegetables may lower your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, whereas consuming omega-6 rich oils could increase chances of developing memory problems, according to a study published in the November 13 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2007 - 5:20pm - 0 attachments

A UN eport says a ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is the global compromise on this ethical dilemma most likely to succeed. According to authors of a new policy analysis by the United Nations Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2007 - 1:56am - 0 attachments