- 20 Million Square Kilometers - Antarctic Sea Ice New Record Maximum
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Antarctic sea ice reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 mill ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 2:02pm - 0 attachments
- Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell And William E. Moerner Receive 2014 Nobel In Chemistry
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Eric Betzig of Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and William E. Moer ...
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- Europe Reinvestigates Fetal Cell Transplants For Parkinson’s Disease
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... Substantia Nigra's dopamine producing cells degrade in Parkinson's disease Credit: Geoff B Hall - Own work. Licensed under Creative ...
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- Evolution Of Responses To (un)fairness
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... of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 12:48pm - 0 attachments
- Unusual Biochemistry: Fat Proteins Interact Directly With Mitochondria
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... can also lead to illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease. ...
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- Biologists Delay The Aging Process By 'Remote Control' Of A Gene
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... said. "Instead of studying the diseases of aging — Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular ... neurodegenerative diseases, including both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, are associated with the accumulation of protein aggregates, a type ...
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- A New Improved Gene Therapy Can Be The First Treatment For Machado-Joseph Disease
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A new improved gene therapy can be the first treatment for Machado-Joseph disease as Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit in a living organism the mutated copies of a gene, without affectin ...
Article - Catarina Amorim - Sep 1 2014 - 9:11am - 0 attachments
- Is That A Real Patient Or A Junkie? Now There's An App For That
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... field," said Norouzi. "There is other work out there on Parkinson's tremors, but much less on tremors from alcohol withdrawal." ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 3:44pm - 0 attachments
- Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Drug Made From Pomegranate
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... accompanies illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease could be reduced. The punicalagin polyphenol can ... – is a factor, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson's and cancer. Olajide and organic chemist Dr. Karl Hemming will ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2014 - 9:30am - 0 attachments
- Implanted Neurons Made From Adult Stem Cells Become Part Of The Brain
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... replace sick neurons with healthy ones in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients, for example. Prof. Dr. Jens ... at the type of neurons that die off in the brain of Parkinson's patients – namely the dopamine-producing neurons," Schwamborn ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2014 - 2:53pm - 0 attachments
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