News tagged with animal disease
New class of brain-protecting drugs emerging
Researchers have identified a compound that mimics one of the brain's own growth factors and can protect brain cells against damage in several animal models of neurological disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Spice in curry could prevent liver damage
Curcumin, a chemical that gives curry its zing, holds promise in preventing or treating liver damage from an advanced form of a condition known as fatty liver disease, new Saint Louis University research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Revisited human-worm relationships shed light on brain evolution
"Man is but a worm" was the title of a famous caricature of Darwin's ideas in Victorian England. Now, 120 years later, a molecular analysis of mysterious marine creatures unexpectedly reveals our cousins as worms, indeed.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Molecular mechanism triggering Parkinson's disease identified
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the death of key nerve cells whose loss causes Parkinson's disease. This discovery not only may explain how a genetic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Scientists warn of emerging fungal peril
Fungal diseases are a major threat not just to wild plants and animals, but to us.
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Dolphins' health shed light on human and ocean health
A panel of governmental, academic and non-profit scientists speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled research suggesting that diseases ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Oxygen treatment hastens memory loss in Alzheimer's mice
A 65-year-old women goes into the hospital for routine hip surgery. Six months later, she develops memory loss and is later diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Just a coincidence? Researchers at the University of South ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Scientists Find a New Toxin That May be Key to MRSA Severity
A research project to identify all the surface proteins of USA300—the most common community-associated strain of the methicillin-resistant form of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)—has resulted in the identification ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 17, 2010 |
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Energy poverty creating a respiratory disease 'epidemic' for almost half the world's population
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Researchers Genetically Link Lou Gehrig's Disease in Humans to Dog Disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- An incurable, paralyzing disease in humans is now genetically linked to a similar disease in dogs. Researchers from the University of Missouri and the Broad Institute have found that the genetic mutation ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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China 'moon bear' agony persists, despite successes
One by one, 13 sick and traumatised Asian black bears squeezed into tiny cages are pulled from a truck, a lifetime of agonising torture now over.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Pesticide exposure found to increase risk of Parkinson's disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that allows for such productivity. Crops ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Magnetic attraction of stem cells creates more potent treatment for heart attack
Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have found in animals that infusing cardiac-derived stem cells with micro-size particles of iron and then using a magnet to guide those stem cells to the area of the heart damaged ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Diabetes drug could work against Alzheimer's
Scientists from Berlin, Bonn and Dundee show in animal models that the diabetes drug metformin has an effect against one of the main causes of the Alzheimer's disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects against deadly pneumonia
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 22, 2011 |
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