As part of a joint research effort with the University of Michigan, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time defined the structure of one of the cell's most basic engines, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2011
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Scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are developing a technique based on a new discovery which could pave the way towards detecting Alzheimer's disease in its earliest stages - and could help to develop ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 21, 2011
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The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) is studying the development of a system based on satellite localization which can be used to find missing Alzheimer's patients and monitor battered women, as well as for inmate ...
Engineering
Apr 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists from The Australian National University have discovered a new way that ageing-related diseases can progress, opening up new preventative and treatment possibilities for conditions such as heart disease ...
Biochemistry
Mar 22, 2011
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Cell biologists pondering the death of neurons -- brain cells -- said today that by eliminating one ingredient from the cellular machinery, they prolonged the life of neurons stressed by a pesticide chemical. The finding ...
Biochemistry
Mar 11, 2011
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By mimicking the structure of the silk moth's antenna, University of Michigan researchers led the development of a better nanopore---a tiny tunnel-shaped tool that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 28, 2011
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered that the genetic mechanism which destroys brain cells is responsible for early development of Alzheimer's Disease ...
Biochemistry
Jan 12, 2011
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Alzheimer's disease is widely believed to be caused by the gradual accumulation in the brain of amyloid-beta peptide which is toxic to nerve cells. Amyloid beta peptide is formed from a protein known as APP, which is found ...
Biochemistry
Nov 15, 2010
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Researchers suspect that a protein superstructure called amyloid beta is responsible for much of the neural damage of Alzheimer's disease.
Biochemistry
Nov 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scottish scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding how Alzheimer’s disease takes hold of the brain.
Biochemistry
Nov 8, 2010
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