Monthly Archives: Febbraio 2018
To baldly grow: Japan scientists regrow hair at record rate
Polished pates and thinning thatches may one day be a thing of the past, thanks to Japanese scientists who have developed a way to...
New Path For Bipolar Disorder Comes to Light
Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a multifactorial brain disorder in which patients experience radical shifts in mood and undergo periods of depression followed by periods...
Novel metal-oxide magnesium battery for high-density energy storage
A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal-oxide magnesium battery cathode material, moving researchers...
Dim light may make us dumber
Nile grass rats exposed to dim lights (DLD) for four weeks experienced, on average, a 30 percent decrease in the number of 'dendritic spine'...
Research presents new information about the Flint water crisis
Based on a detailed statistical analysis of multiple datasets, the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership (FACHEP) research team found that the majority...
Exposure to Bisphenol A ‘hard to avoid’ in everyday life
86 per cent of teenagers have traces of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound used to make plastics, in their body, an Engaged Research...
Adding crizotinib to radiation therapy may help preserve hearing in patients with NF2
Adding the targeted cancer therapy drug crizotinib to radiation therapy for tumors associated with the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) may reduce the hearing...
Half of all dementias start with damaged ‘gatekeeper cells’
USC research sheds new light on how a breakdown in the brain's vascular system predates the accumulation of toxic plaques and tangles in the...
Mechanism behind common Parkinson’s mutation discovered
Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how a gene mutation results in buildup of a toxic compound known to cause Parkinson's disease symptoms, defining for...
The toxic relationship between ALS and frontotemporal dementia
ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative diseases with a toxic relationship, according to a new USC Stem Cell study published in Nature...
Cascading inflammation associated with Lyme arthritis linked to overactive immune response
Every year, more than 300,000 Americans contract Lyme disease, an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium transferred during a tick bite.
In a small...
Team targets tumor suppressor to treat ‘triple-negative’ breast cancer
A study by scientists at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and Cancer Research UK has found that the loss of a specific tumor...
Trains, planes, automobiles and heart disease
Noise may disrupt the body on the cellular level in a way that increases the risk of common heart disease risk factors, according to...
Scientists target glioma cancer stem cells, which could improve patient survival
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor and has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers.
Despite surgery, radiation...
Autism might be better detected using new two-minute questionnaire
Researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have developed a two-minute questionnaire for parents that could help pediatricians and other primary care providers detect...
