Studies showing how bird flu viruses could adapt to humans offer surveillance...
Bird flu viruses are potentially highly lethal and pose a global threat, but relatively little is known about why certain strains spread more easily to humans than others. Two studies published today...
View ArticleNuclear testing from the 1960s helps scientist determine whether adult brains...
The birth of new neurons in the adult brain sharpens memory in rodents, but whether the same holds true for humans has long been debated. A study published today in the journal Cell reveals that a...
View ArticleConflict-of-interest restrictions needed to ensure strong FDA review,...
A 2012 law that loosened conflict-of-interest restrictions for FDA advisory panels could weaken the agency's review system and could allow more drugs with safety problems to gain market approval, says...
View ArticleNew study sheds light on what causes compulsive behavior, could improve OCD...
By activating a brain circuit that controls compulsive behavior, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can block a compulsive behavior in mice—a result that could help researchers develop new...
View ArticleResearchers discover how brain circuits can become miswired during development
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered a mechanism that guides the exquisite wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain—gaining unprecedented insight into the faulty circuits...
View ArticleHerpes virus exploits immune response to bolster infection
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues report that the herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1), which affects an estimated 50 to 80 percent of all American...
View ArticleBreastfeeding boosts babies' brain growth, study finds
A study using brain images from "quiet" MRI machines adds to the growing body of evidence that breastfeeding improves brain development in infants. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development...
View ArticleAlzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism now can be studied with mature brain...
Difficult-to-study diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism now can be probed more safely and effectively thanks to an innovative new method for obtaining mature brain cells called...
View ArticleA way of thinking may enable battle but prevent war crimes
Combat troops must minimize the humanness of their enemies in order to kill them. They can't be effective fighters if they're distracted by feelings of empathy for opponents. But indifference to the...
View ArticleStudy finds novel gene correction model for epidermolysis bullosa
A research team led by pediatric blood and marrow transplantation experts Mark Osborn, Ph.D. and Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D. from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, have discovered a...
View ArticleHow similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might...
Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development...
View ArticleResearchers discover normal molecular pathway affected in poor-prognosis...
Through genetic engineering of laboratory models, researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center have uncovered a vulnerability in the way cancer cells diverge from normal regenerating...
View ArticleGene discovery to help parents to avoid fatal baby disease
(Medical Xpress)—One of the genes which causes a muscle disease so severe that newborn babies rarely survive beyond a few days has been discovered by an international team of scientists, coordinated by...
View ArticleFather's age affects offspring
(Medical Xpress)—In a new paper, USC Dornsife molecular and computational biologists Norman Arnheim and Peter Calabrese and their team found that the longer a man waits to have children, the greater...
View ArticleGene variant may provide novel therapy for several cancer types
(Medical Xpress)—A novel gene variant found in human and animal tissue may be a promising treatment for cancer, including breast and brain cancer, according to scientists from the Icahn School of...
View ArticlePromising results in minimally invasive brain surgery for epilepsy
(Medical Xpress)—A new minimally invasive laser-based tool for epilepsy surgery offers a quicker recuperation time for patients than major surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers report. The research is...
View ArticleUnborn babies 'practise' facial expressions in the womb
(Medical Xpress)—Unborn babies 'practise' facial expressions of pain in the womb, according to a study published today.
View ArticleComputer games may help forensic psychiatry patients
Brain-training computer games may help restore memory and competency to forensic psychiatry patients in state mental hospitals, researchers say.
View ArticlePD-like sleep and motor problems observed in alpha-synuclein mutant mice
The presence of Lewy bodies in nerve cells, formed by intracellular deposits of the protein α-synuclein, is a characteristic pathologic feature of Parkinson's Disease (PD). In the quest for an animal...
View ArticleClinical sequencing technology identifies new targets in diverse cancers
Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene, called FGFR fusions, were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with...
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