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A Parkinson's disease vaccine developed by the Austrian biotech company AFFiRiS ... protein plays a key role in the onset and progression of Parkinson's as well as multiple system atrophy (MSA), an orphan disease. This ... strategies. Current scientific understanding is that Parkinson's – as well as MSA – is caused by deposits of pathological forms ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2014 - 10:49am - 0 attachments

The chemical messenger dopamine, colloquially called the 'happiness hormone', is important outside social psychology articles on Valentine's Day also; it has been linked to motivation and motor skills and may help neurons with difficult cognitive tasks. & ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2014 - 11:59am - 0 attachments

E-cigarettes should not be sold in Australia, as a therapy or a consumer product. gdvcom/Shutterstock By Ross MacKenzie ; Benjamin Hawkins , London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine , and Thomas Novotny , San Diego State Uni ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 18 2014 - 6:30pm - 0 attachments

... protein-1 – Drp1, could hold the key to treating Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson's Disease  is a progressive neurological condition that affects ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 9:56pm - 0 attachments

... possibility for treatment of patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.  When we get older, defects begin to develop in ... capacity. The risk of developing diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's also increases. Alzheimer's disease is currently ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

California is no stranger to anti-science beliefs; from anti-vaccine to anti-agriculture to anti-energy, you can stick a pin in a map of the coast and find alarmingly one-sided views on politics, medicine and science. Los Angeles City Council wants ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Oct 24 2014 - 2:00pm - 0 attachments

Unusual and severe impulse control disorders, including pathological gambling, hypersexuality and compulsive shopping, have been reported in patients taking dopamine receptor agonist drugs. Dopamine receptor agonist drugs, which activate the dopamine ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 5:18pm - 0 attachments

The Natural Resources Defense Council became the first environmental group to   file suit   in an attempt to block the rollout of the latest GMO crop and weed killer system, Enlist Duo, developed by Dow AgroSciences. ...

Article - Jon Entine - Oct 17 2014 - 1:15pm - 0 attachments

... to several diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, as well as aging-related diseases. In ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

... Mason, A B Zonderman, L Franke, B S Kristal, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC)118, North American Brain ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 11 2014 - 10:30am - 0 attachments