News tagged with brain defects
Therapeutically useful stem cell derivatives in need of stability
Human stem cells capable of giving rise to any fetal or adult cell type are known as pluripotent stem cells. It is hoped that such cells, the most well known being human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), can be used to generate ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Hope for children with rare genetic defect
To date, there is no therapy for Batten disease. Patients pass away in their teens or twenties. Four years ago, the working group lead by Dr. Mika Ruonala at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany started to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Feb 21, 2011 |
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People with common heart defect also more likely to have brain aneurysms
A new study shows that people with a common heart defect may also be more likely to have brain aneurysms. The study is published in the May 4, 2010, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neu ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 03, 2010 |
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New treatment cures baby of often-fatal metabolic disorder
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicians at Packard Children's Hospital believe they are the first to cure an infant of a serious disorder using prenatal infusions followed by liver transplant after his birth.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 26, 2010 |
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New clue why autistic people don't want hugs
Why do people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic defect that is the best-known cause of autism and inherited mental retardation, recoil from hugs and physical touch - even from their parents?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Experiment takes aim at genetic learning disorder
(AP) -- A pill to ease a type of mental retardation? An experiment is under way to develop one, aimed at a genetic disorder that might unravel some of the mysteries of autism along the way.
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first
A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Researchers restore missing protein in rare genetic brain disorder
UCSF researchers have successfully used protease inhibitors to restore to normal levels a key protein involved in early brain development. Reduced levels of that protein have been shown to cause the rare brain disorder lissencephaly, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 06, 2009 |
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Unlikely genetic suspect implicated in common brain defect
A genetic search that wound its way from patients to mouse models and back to patients has uncovered an unlikely gene critically involved in a common birth defect which causes mental retardation, motor delays ...
Aug 09, 2009 |
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Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth
New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Mystery solved: Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage in Huntington disease
Johns Hopkins brain scientists have figured out why a faulty protein accumulates in cells everywhere in the bodies of people with Huntington's disease (HD), but only kills cells in the part of the brain that controls movement, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits
How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2009 |
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Brain surgery patient left in OR after doc no-show
(AP) -- One of the highest-paid doctors in New York refused to perform brain surgery on an already-anesthetized patient whose scheduled surgeon had failed to show up, and the state health department is investigating.
May 10, 2009 |
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Birth brain defect could be treated with vitamin supplement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pioneering research published today suggests that a vitamin supplement taken during pregnancy could prevent hydrocephalus - one of the common forms of birth brain defect.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 17, 2009 |
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