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·January 19, 2011·4 min read

MicroRNA-29 Makes Brain Cells Resist Programmed Cell Death

Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...

Featured Neurology

·January 20, 2011·2 min read

Amyloid Fiber Mystery Unraveling – First Reaction Pinpointed

Scientists discovered the reaction which starts the formation of amyloid fibers. Amyloid fibers are problematic in many diseases and disorders...

Featured Genetics Neurology

·February 16, 2011·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Symptoms Reversed in Mice with Human Tau Genes

Alzheimer’s disease research has lead to important findings involving the tau gene and the possibility of reversing the disease’s progression....

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·March 17, 2011·4 min read

Similarities Between Plant Reproduction and Animal Nervous Systems

Research using tobacco plants and Arabidopsis Thaliana weeds has answered long standing mysteries about sexual reproduction in plants. The research...

Neurology Neuroscience

·March 22, 2011·3 min read

New Method Delivers Alzheimer’s Drug to the Brain

Oxford University scientists have developed a new method for delivering complex drugs directly to the brain, a necessary step for...

Neurology

·March 29, 2011·2 min read

Indications of Alzheimer’s disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease have lower glucose utilization in the brain than those with normal cognitive function, and that those decreased levels may be detectable approximately 20 years prior to the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

Neurology

·April 4, 2011·2 min read

Researchers Link Herpes to Alzheimer’s Disease

‘Cold sores’ connected to cognitive decline Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute...

Featured Neuroscience

·April 7, 2011·2 min read

Freeway Air Bad for Mouse Brain

Study finds brain damage typical of aging and memory loss after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution If mice commuted, their...

Neuroscience

·May 13, 2011·4 min read

As Time Goes by, It Gets Tougher to ‘Just Remember This’

It’s something we just accept: the fact that the older we get, the more difficulty we seem to have remembering...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·May 18, 2011·3 min read

Neutrons Provide First Sub-nanoscale Snapshots of Huntington’s Disease Protein

Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural...

Neuroscience

·May 20, 2011·2 min read

High Iron Or Copper Levels Block Brain-cell DNA Repair

No one knows the cause of most cases of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative disorders. But researchers have found that certain factors are consistently associated with these debilitating conditions. One is DNA damage by reactive oxygen species, highly destructive molecules usually formed as a byproduct of cellular respiration. Another is the presence of excessive levels of copper and iron in regions of the brain associated with the particular disorder.