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Potential Therapeutic Targets Revealed For Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Date: Apr-29-2013Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with researchers from Icelandic Heart Association, Sage Bionetworks, and other institutions, have discovered that a network of genes involved in the inflammatory response in the brain is a crucial mechanism driving Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease (LOAD). The findings, published online in the journal Cell, provide new understanding of key pathways and genes involved in LOAD and valuable insights to develop potential therapies for the disease...
Global Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence
Date: Apr-29-2013Global attitudes about domestic violence changed dramatically during the first decade of the 2000s, according to a new University of Michigan study that analyzes data from 26 low- and middle-income countries. Nigeria had the largest change, with 65 percent of men and 52 percent of women rejecting domestic violence in 2008, compared with 48 percent and 33 percent, respectively, in 2003...
Why Austerity Kills And What We Can Do About It? New Book
Date: Apr-29-2013Why do economic crises affect people's physical health so differently? During the Swedish banking crisis suicide rates dropped, during the catastrophic great depression of the 1930s the health of Americans actually improved, but in the Russian crisis in the 1990s millions of men "disappeared" and in Greece HIV rates have increased by over 200% in the last two years...
Smart Environments At The Wave Of A Hand: Potential Applications In The Home, Office, Hospitals, Nursing Homes And Schools
Date: Apr-29-2013Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. But now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated how these touch-based interfaces can be created almost at will, with the wave of a hand. CMU's WorldKit system enables someone to rub the arm of a sofa to "paint" a remote control for her TV or swipe a hand across an office door to post his calendar from which subsequent users can "pull down" an extended version...
Researchers Discover New Hormone Spurring Beta Cell Production - A Potential Diabetes Breakthrough
Date: Apr-29-2013Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans. The researchers believe that the hormone might also have a role in treating type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. The work was published by the journal Cell as an early on-line release. It is scheduled for the May 9 print edition of the journal...
Revolution In Tactile Sensing
Date: Apr-29-2013Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals. The arrays could help give robots a more adaptive sense of touch, provide better security in handwritten signatures and offer new ways for humans to interact with electronic devices. The arrays include more than 8,000 functioning piezotronic transistors, each of which can independently produce an electronic controlling signal when placed under mechanical strain...
Potential Therapy For Alzheimer's Disease Revealed By Gene Networks In Brains Of Deceased Patients
Date: Apr-29-2013Most information about the cause of Alzheimer's disease is based on studies from animal models. Now, a study published by Cell Press in the journal Cell examines the brain tissue of deceased human patients and sheds light on dysfunctions in molecular networks in the brain that are at the root of Alzheimer's disease. By showing that the TYROBP gene plays a key role in disrupting immune system pathways in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, the study reveals a potential therapeutic target for preventing brain damage caused by this debilitating disease...
Review Of Financial Exploitation In Psychologically Vulnerable Older Adults
Date: Apr-29-2013Researchers at Wayne State University, in collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technology, recently published a study advising clinical gerontologists in the field to be aware of older adults' needs for assessment of financial exploitation or its potential when working with highly vulnerable individuals. Financial exploitation of the elderly is on the rise according to the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, and the numbers are expected to continue to grow as Baby Boomers age...
Study Deciphers Components Of The Machinery That Duplicates DNA On Which Most Chemotherapeutic Agents Currently Act
Date: Apr-29-2013The Genomic Instability Group led by researcher Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has for the first time obtained a panoramic photo of the proteins that take part in human DNA division, a process known as replication. The research article, published in the journal Cell Reports, is the result of a collaborative study in which other CNIO groups have also participated, including the Proteomics Unit led by Javier Muñoz and the DNA Replication Group led by Juan Méndez...
The Negative Effect Of Trees On Health And The Environment
Date: Apr-29-2013After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show exactly how trees help create one of society's predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit isoprene, an abundant molecule in the air known to protect leaves from oxygen damage and temperature fluctuations...
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