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Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reconstruct 3-D hand movement using brain signals

Researchers have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way, according to a study in the March 3 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding uses a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study examines how diving marine mammals manage decompression

Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or "the bends." As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light (w/ Video)

In an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off "switch" that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

New study makes key finding in stem cell self-renewal

A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells like brain, liver or skin.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Studies reveal structure of EV71, a virus causing childhood illnesses

Researchers have discovered critical new details about the structure of a virus that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children, pointing toward designs for antiviral drugs to treat ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stem cells used to reverse paralysis in animals

A new study has found that transplantation of stem cells from the lining of the spinal cord, called ependymal stem cells, reverses paralysis associated with spinal cord injuries in laboratory tests. The findings show that ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

CDC: West Nile virus illness continue to decline

(AP) -- Last year's West Nile virus season was the mildest in eight years, and just one case of serious illness has been reported so far this year.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Preserving nerve cells in motor neuron disease

A team of researchers, led by Scott Oakes, at the University of California, San Francisco, has identified a way to prevent symptom onset, weight loss, and paralysis and extend survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Living in the matrix: Sugar residues regulate growth and survival of nerve cells

Researchers in Bochum have found out that certain sugar residues in the spinal cord regulate the growth and survival of nerve cells which control the movement of muscles. "We hope that our findings can improve ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation

US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Removing wrinkles with RHAMM

Hollywood stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More pain means real gain in complex regional pain syndrome treatment

The saying "more pain, more gain" may be true for those already in terrible pain due to a chronic and debilitating condition, contrary to received wisdom. For those with Type I Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), working ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light

In an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off "switch" that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jackler on removing a tumor, saving a smile

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every doctor carries at least one patient in his or her head -- a memory of a difficult case, perhaps, or of a tragic outcome. And sometimes there’s a patient who simply touches the heart. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Paralysis

Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Paralysis can cause loss of feeling or loss of mobility in the affected area.

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