News tagged with neuromuscular control

Simple, Accurate In-Office Tool Predicts Athletes at High-risk for ACL Injury

Previously, determining athletes at high-risk for ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries required expensive and complex laboratory-based motion analysis systems, such as those used in creating video games. But a new study ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Cyborg insects generate power for their own neural control

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years, researchers have been working on designing and fabricating micro-air-vehicles (MAVs), flying robots the size of small insects. But after realizing how difficult it is to create ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 24 | with audio podcast feature

New microscope unlocks the cell's mysteries at the molecular level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Among science’s "final frontiers," one of the most difficult to cross has been looking into the molecular-level workings of living cells. Now, a University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Singing' mice -- the ongoing debate of nature vs. nurture

What happened to being "quiet as a mouse"? Researchers have recently shown that, rather than being the silent creatures of popular belief, mice emit ultrasonic calls in a variety of social contexts, and these ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Novel mechanism for control of gene expression revealed

Dr. David Levin, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine discovered recently a novel, evolutionarily ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New gene test offers personalized treatment for inherited neuromuscular disorder

The gene, GFPT1, has been identified by researchers at Newcastle University working with international colleagues, as crucial in causing a variation of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS).

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Minimally invasive technique appears helpful to reanimate facial paralysis

A procedure involving only one small incision and no major modifications to bone can be used to transpose a tendon and appears helpful in reanimating the lower face after paralysis, according to a report in the January/February ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vital balance brought to elders
 by Tele-Tai Chi

Imagine swaying to and fro, dancing to the rhythm of a slow love song. Then switch that image to maintaining balance while standing on one foot. How about standing straight with two feet on the ground and not moving? It's ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some kids with spinal cord injury may be overlooked for walking rehabilitation

The traditional way to predict whether children can regain movement after spinal cord injuries may exclude a small subset of patients who could benefit from therapy, according to two studies presented by University of Florida ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What research brings spinal cord-injured patients closer to a cure?

Millions of people worldwide experience spinal cord injuries. Breakthroughs bring researchers progress, but a complete cure is a long way off.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Northwestern first site open for spinal cord stem cell trial

Northwestern Medicine is the first site open for enrollment in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for participants with a subacute thoracic spinal cord injury. Following the procedure, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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