News tagged with incurable neurological disorder
New hope for treatment of neurodegenerative disorder
Researchers from the University of Southern California have taken an important first step toward protecting against Huntington disease using gene therapy.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Scientists create novel RNA repair technology
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a compound that can help repair a specific type of defect in RNA, a type of genetic material. The methods in the new study could accelerate ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Coffee could offer key ingredient for new treatments for Parkinson's disease
Scientists from Heptares Therapeutics have used Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to understand the structure of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological ...
Sep 05, 2011 |
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A possible fix for misfolding proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubled proteins in need of rescue may someday have a champion in a common drug used to treat high blood pressure.
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Neutrons provide first sub-nanoscale snapshots of Huntington's disease protein
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Early indications of Parkinson's disease revealed in dream sleep
During a large-scale study of the socioeconomic costs of this neurodegenerative disease, Danish researchers, some from the University of Copenhagen, discovered that very early symptoms of Parkinson's disease may be revealed ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Mutant prions help cells foil harmful protein misfolding
Romping clumps of misfolded proteins are prime suspects in many neurological disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. Those diseases are devastating and incurable, but a team of biologists ...
Mar 20, 2011 |
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Scientists describe new model for neurodegeneration
A team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative disease. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Rebooting the brain helps stop the ring of tinnitus in rats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers were able to eliminate tinnitus in a group of rats by stimulating a nerve in the neck while simultaneously playing a variety of sound tones over an extended period of time, says a study published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Stem cell research: What progress has been made, what is its potential?
The use of stem cells for research and their possible application in the treatment of disease are hotly debated topics. In a special issue of Translational Research published this month an international group of medical expert ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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