News tagged with brain blood

'Green' nanoparticles, that may enhance medication delivery and improve MRI performance

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown a new category of "green" nanoparticles comprised of a non-toxic, protein-based nanotechnology that can non-invasively cross the blood brain barrier and is capable ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New type of extra-chromosomal DNA discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina in the US have discovered a previously unidentified type of small circular DNA molecule occurring outside ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Trojan horse bacteria use nanobodies to conquer sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness, caused by the trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted to humans (and animals) via the bite of the tsetse fly. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Microbial Cell Factories ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New device for rapid, mobile detection of brain injury

When accidents that involve traumatic brain injuries occur, a speedy diagnosis followed by the proper treatment can mean the difference between life and death. A research team, led by Jason D. Riley in the Section on Analytical ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists combine tumor-targeting peptides and nanoparticles to destroy glioblastoma

Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. Rather than presenting as a well-defined tumor, glioblastoma will often infiltrate the surrounding brain tissue, making it extremely difficult to treat surgically ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Rebuilding the head of an armoured dinosaur (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta-led research team has taken a rare look inside the skull of a dinosaur and come away with unprecedented details on the brain and nasal passages of the 72 million year ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

First detection of pregnancy protein in older people destined for Alzheimer's disease

In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stanford group creates miniature self-contained fluorescence microscope

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working at Stanford University have devised a means for building the smallest self-contained fluorescence microscope ever. Weighing just under 2 grams and slightly larger ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Drug boosts snakebite survival time by half: study

Rubbing snakebites with an ointment that slows the functioning of lymph glands could boost survival times by 50 percent, according to a study released Sunday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists cultivate human brain's most ubiquitous cell in lab dish

Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain bypass surgery sparks restoration of lost brain tissue

Neurosurgeons at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, have for the first time, initiated the restoration of lost brain tissue through brain bypass surgery in patients where blood flow to the brain is ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deciphering hidden code reveals brain activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mini-stroke doubles risk of heart attack

Patients who have suffered a "mini stroke" are at twice the risk of heart attack than the general population, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transplanting umbilical cord and menstrual blood-derived stem cells offer hope for disorders

Transplanting stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood cells and menstrual blood cells may offer future therapeutic benefit for those suffering from stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Drug could help preserve brain function after cardiac arrest

(PhysOrg.com) -- An experimental drug that targets a brain system that controls inflammation might help preserve neurological function in people who survive sudden cardiac arrest, new research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0