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... in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease you have to ensure that these cells make proper ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2007 - 1:48pm - 0 attachments

... processes, such as many neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Parkinson's disease) and complications linked to other illnesses, like ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2007 - 12:03am - 0 attachments

Controlling the properties and behavior of matter at the smallest scale—in effect, "domesticating atoms"—can help to overcome some of the world’s biggest challenges, concludes a new report on how diverse experts view the future of nanotechnology. Relea ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2007 - 12:48am - 0 attachments

Huntington’s disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that affects roughly 30,000 Americans, is incurable and fatal. But a new discovery about how cells repair their DNA points to a possible way to stop or slow the onset of the disease. The res ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2007 - 12:36pm - 0 attachments

For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct. April 14, at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in Jacksonville, Fl ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2007 - 6:12pm - 0 attachments

... cancer drug. "A number of human disorders including Parkinson's disease, and colon and breast cancers, are caused by defective ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2007 - 1:38am - 0 attachments

Several neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, alcoholism, and Parkinson’s disease, are associated with changes in the brain that affect the nerves that communicate with each other through the naturally-produced chemical dopam ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2007 - 6:05pm - 0 attachments

... contributing to aging and aging-related diseases like Parkinson's. This might happen more often or differently in males, Tower ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2007 - 4:59pm - 0 attachments

... for which people hold out the most hope -- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, for example -- there's been little evidence to date that stem ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2007 - 3:48pm - 0 attachments

... model an array of adult neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, ALS, Alzheimer's - particularly those with a genetic component. ... in their quest for understanding diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and a host of other neurological diseases. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2007 - 10:52pm - 0 attachments