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Study: Brain's neurons are more changeable in adulthood than previously thought

UT Southwestern researchers attempting to transform supporting brain cells into neurons instead reprogrammed mature inhibitory neurons into a different type of neuron that creates the neurotransmitter lost in Parkinson's disease.

12 Oct 2018

Video games could influence bystander attitudes and efficacy in situations of sexual assaults

As recent news headlines have shown, bystanders can play a pivotal role when it comes to sexual assault and relationship violence.

12 Oct 2018

A new vaccine shows promise in protecting people from rabies, Lassa fever

A novel vaccine designed to protect people from both Lassa fever and rabies showed promise in preclinical testing, according to new research published in Nature Communications.

12 Oct 2018

Eight promising biomedical research projects receive ASH Bridge Grants

Today, ASH announced the names of eight investigators who have each been awarded $150,000 through the ASH Bridge Grant Program.

12 Oct 2018

Gut microbiota could play greater role in pathogenesis of MS than previously thought

In multiple sclerosis, a defective response of the body’s own immune system leads to brain tissue damage. Gastrointestinal microbiota could play a far greater role in the pathogenesis of the disease than previously assumed, researchers at the University of Zurich have now found.

11 Oct 2018

Low levels of cellular copper may make fat cells fatter

In studies of mouse cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that low levels of cellular copper appear to make fat cells fatter by altering how cells process their main metabolic fuels, such as fat and sugar.

11 Oct 2018

New vaccine shows effective protection in animal models of Lassa fever

Lassa fever belongs to the same class of hemorrhagic fevers as Ebola. Like Ebola, it has been a major health threat in Western Africa, infecting 100,000-300,000 people and killing 5,000 per year.

11 Oct 2018

Scientists succeed in growing functional salivary gland

A research group led by scientists from Showa University and the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have, for the first time, succeeded in growing three-dimensional salivary gland tissue that, when implanted into mice, produced saliva like normal glands.

11 Oct 2018

Impact of sleep on women’s cardiovascular health

Jason Carter, associate vice president for research development and professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, is speaking at the 2018 National Institute of Health Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Research Conference on Sleep and the Health of Women in Bethesda, Maryland.

11 Oct 2018

Researchers develop new techniques for faster detection of Lyme disease bacteria

Researchers have developed techniques to detect Lyme disease bacteria weeks sooner than current tests, allowing patients to start treatment earlier.

11 Oct 2018

Color-changing contact lens could help doctors to monitor eye disease medications

For all the good they do, eye drops and ointments have one major drawback: It's hard to tell how much of the medication is actually getting to the eye.

11 Oct 2018

Scientists uncover how proteins meet on the cell membrane

Scripps Research scientists have uncovered the workings of a critical process in cell survival. Their study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show exactly how a protein called talin activates another critical protein, called integrin, to do its job on the cell membrane.

11 Oct 2018

Baseline PSA levels measured at midlife predict risk of aggressive prostate cancer in black men

Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with, and to die from, prostate cancer yet recommendations about prostate cancer screening are primarily based on studies of white men.

11 Oct 2018

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, together with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Boston Children's Hospital, has been awarded $11.3 million to map the three-dimensional structures of protein tangles that accumulate in the human brain.

11 Oct 2018

Research team awarded $3.6 million to assess safety of genome editing

As genome editing technologies quickly advance toward clinical therapies, they are raising hopes of a completely new way to treat disease. They are also bringing to light a number of challenges that need to be addressed before potential treatments can be widely used in patients.

11 Oct 2018

Virginia Tech researcher receives $1.7 million to study herpes simplex virus

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Andrea Bertke, an assistant professor of infectious diseases in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, $1.7 million to study the neuron-specific regulation of herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2.

11 Oct 2018

Laboratory News and Research

Study: Brain's neurons are more changeable in adulthood than previously thought

Video games could influence bystander attitudes and efficacy in situations of sexual assaults

A new vaccine shows promise in protecting people from rabies, Lassa fever

Eight promising biomedical research projects receive ASH Bridge Grants

Gut microbiota could play greater role in pathogenesis of MS than previously thought

Low levels of cellular copper may make fat cells fatter

New vaccine shows effective protection in animal models of Lassa fever

Scientists succeed in growing functional salivary gland

Impact of sleep on women’s cardiovascular health

Researchers develop new techniques for faster detection of Lyme disease bacteria

Color-changing contact lens could help doctors to monitor eye disease medications

Scientists uncover how proteins meet on the cell membrane

Baseline PSA levels measured at midlife predict risk of aggressive prostate cancer in black men

Columbia scientist and collaborators receive $11.3 million to find new targets against brain disease

Research team awarded $3.6 million to assess safety of genome editing

Virginia Tech researcher receives $1.7 million to study herpes simplex virus

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