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Mitochondrial Dysfunction - The Genetic Disease That Gets Little Funding Or Coverage

Mitochondrial dysfunction, which leads to rare genetic disorders in children, some forms of heart disease, and most likely some cases of Parkinson’s disease, is bewildering in the variety and complexity of problems it can cause.  Mitochondria are, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2017 - 9:04am - 0 attachments

Simulations Point To A Promising Compound That Could Reduce Parkinson’s Symptoms

A novel computational approach to design has created a new compound that in laboratory studies has reduced deficits and neurodegenerative symptoms that underlie Parkinson’s disease. In their study , the researchers describe how their compound, dubbe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2016 - 12:49pm - 0 attachments

Alzheimer's Beginnings Prove To Be A Sticky Situation

... of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Lapidus pioneered the use of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2016 - 8:02pm - 0 attachments

Novel Method Enables Absolute Quantification Of Mitochondrial Metabolites

... dysfunction is found in several disorders, including Parkinson's disease, cardiovascular disease, and mitochondrial diseases. Until ... by mitochondrial dysfunction--such as neurons damaged by Parkinson's disease--with normal cells or other cell types seemingly unaffected ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2016 - 5:45am - 0 attachments

Alzheimer’s – Infectious Or Infection?

... diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, may be transmissible under some circumstances. Secondly, ... diseases, Alzheimer’s, Huntington's, and Parkinson's all involve the accumulation of insoluble amyloid proteins. For ... The misfolded proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease are not true prions as neither Alzheimer’s or ...

Article - David Clark - Aug 5 2016 - 5:09am - 0 attachments

Antioxidant Therapies May Help In The Fight Against Neurodegenerative Diseases

... of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple sclerosis. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2016 - 1:38pm - 0 attachments

Hugh Hefner's Wife Was Not Poisoned By Breast Implants

Crystal Hefner, wife of Playboy entrepreneur Hugh Hefner, recently elected to have her breast implants removed because she believed that they “were slowly poisoning her.” This was after she read Internet comments from people who shared similar symptom ...

Article - Jack Fisher - Jul 22 2016 - 8:56am - 0 attachments

How A Former Naturopath Can Help Unravel The Trickery Of Alternative Medicine

Just a few years ago, I was a practicing naturopathic doctor. I considered myself to be a primary care physician who had been trained in the best of two worlds: supposedly, one was modern medicine and the other was a mixture of alternative practices based ...

Article - Britt Marie Hermes - Jul 8 2016 - 7:10pm - 0 attachments

The Academic Biomedical Workforce Is Aging, And It Will Affect Academic Funding

... $3 billion of taxpayer money, convinced that it would cure Parkinson's or other diseases. The science never met the hype and now ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2016 - 9:59am - 0 attachments

New Findings Challenge Current View On Origins Of Parkinson's Disease

The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson's disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the ... stress were used. Some inherited forms of early-onset Parkinson's disease have typically been blamed on poorly functioning ... picture of what is happening within cells affected by Parkinson's. Researchers from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2016 - 6:02am - 0 attachments