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Medical Xpress / Copper drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins, preclinical study finds
Monash University researchers have found in laboratory experiments that a drug that delivers copper to the brain significantly reduces toxic Alzheimer's proteins and improves long-term spatial memory.
Medical Xpress / World's largest genetic study of 'moliness' helps unravel mysteries of melanoma
QIMR Berghofer scientists have uncovered hundreds of genes that play a role in the growth of both moles and melanoma, in a discovery that could lead to new ways of preventing and treating the deadliest form of skin cancer. ...
Medical Xpress / Slow breathing can influence brain activity and decision behavior
A new study from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam–Rehbruecke (DIfE) and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin shows for the first time that targeted control of human breathing rhythm can influence decision behavior ...
Medical Xpress / Blood test estimates biological ages of 11 separate organ systems to predict disease risk years ahead
The candles on your birthday cake don't tell the whole story. As anyone who ever attended a high school reunion can tell you, some people age faster than others.
Medical Xpress / mRNA flu vaccine offers immune protection against diverse strains
A new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that an investigational mRNA influenza vaccine helps the immune system recognize a wider range of influenza viruses than today's ...
Medical Xpress / Brain keeps familiar routes intact as new experiences get layered on top, study suggests
Every time we move through a familiar environment, the hippocampus consults an internal map, a detailed spatial representation built up through repeated experience. But what happens when something unexpected occurs on a well-known ...
Medical Xpress / Crohn's atlas maps gene shifts across more than 50 gut cell types
A detailed cellular study of Crohn's disease has mapped how gene activity changes across more than 50 cell types in the gut. The study provides an open resource of the genes that characterize each cell type and those whose ...
Medical Xpress / Microplastics mapped in living tissue in fine detail for months
Microplastics have been mapped deep within the tissue of living organisms in fine detail in a new study involving Kingston University London. The study, published in Advanced Science, shows noninvasive methods can be used ...
Medical Xpress / Bilingualism may be driven by a single neurological 'grammar engine'
It's not uncommon for bilingual speakers to mistakenly apply the grammatical rules of one language while speaking the other—for example, saying "I have 20 years" instead of "I am 20" when asked about their age.
Medical Xpress / Cohabiting people share about a quarter of their gut and oral microbiota, study finds
People who live together share more oral and gut microbes with each other than with other people in their communities, according to a study published in Cell Press Blue. This was true regardless of the cohabitants' relationships—siblings, ...
Medical Xpress / Clinician–scientists identify brain network linked to deadliest childhood brain cancer
A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain cancer, has been identified by UCL clinician-scientists, raising the possibility of entirely new ...
Medical Xpress / Brain stimulation adapts to Parkinson's patients' every step, easing gait and falls
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a new form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that adjusts in real time as a person walks, helping improve gait and reduce falls in people with Parkinson's disease.
