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Researchers Identify New Vision Of How We Explore Our World
Date: Apr-09-2013Brain researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have discovered that we explore the world with our eyes in a different way than previously thought. Their results advance our understanding of how healthy observers and neurological patients interact and glean critical information from the world around them. The research team was led by Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde, Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at Barrow, in collaboration with fellow Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Rachel Langston, and Dr...
Suicide Risk, Gun Ownership, Political Conservatism And Church Membership
Date: Apr-09-2013Residents of states with the highest rates of gun ownership and political conservatism are at greater risk of suicide than those in states with less gun ownership and less politically conservative leanings, according to a study by University of California, Riverside sociology professor Augustine J. Kposowa. The study, "Association of suicide rates, gun ownership, conservatism and individual suicide risk," was published online recently in the journal Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology in February...
Clues To Wound Healing Offered By Fruit Flies
Date: Apr-09-2013A person's skin and a fruit fly's exoskeleton, called a "cuticle" may not look alike, but both coverings protect against injury, infection, and dehydration. The top layers of mammalian skin and insect cuticle are mesh-works of macromolecules, the mammal version consisting mostly of keratin proteins and the fly version predominantly of the carbohydrate chitin. Yet the requirement of an outer boundary for protection is so ancient that the outermost cells of both organisms respond to some of the same signals...
Promising New Minimally Invasive, MRI-Guided Laser Treatment For Recurrent Glioblastoma
Date: Apr-09-2013The first-in-human study of the NeuroBlate™ Thermal Therapy System finds that it appears to provide a new, safe and minimally invasive procedure for treating recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), a malignant type of brain tumor...
Diagnostic Achilles' Heel For Biothreat Detection In Highly Lethal Ebola Virus
Date: Apr-09-2013By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test. "Detecting single viral protein components can be challenging, especially at very low levels...
Rewiring Appetite Control
Date: Apr-09-2013Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have made a discovery in neuroscience that could offer a long-lasting solution to eating disorders such as obesity. It was previously thought that the nerve cells in the brain associated with appetite regulation were generated entirely during an embryo's development in the womb and therefore their numbers were fixed for life. But research published in the Journal of Neuroscience has identified a population of stem cells capable of generating new appetite-regulating neurons in the brains of young and adult rodents...
Clinical Trial Finds Fecal Microbial Transplantation An Effective Treatment For Ulcerative Colitis
Date: Apr-09-2013A Spectrum Health clinical trial has found that fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) has resulted in the improvement or absence of symptoms in most pediatric patients with active ulcerative colitis. The phase I clinical trial of the procedure was conducted by members of the Pediatric Specialty Department of the Spectrum Health Medical Group at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, the first in the country to study FMT in children...
High Survival Rate In Liver Transplantation For Patients With Genetic Liver Conditions
Date: Apr-09-2013Journal of American College of Surgeons study reports that, despite the risks and the costs, liver transplant may also serve as a model for gene therapy through solid organ transplantation for some patients. Patients faced with the diagnosis of a life-threatening liver disease have to consider the seriousness of having a liver transplant, which can be a definitive cure for many acquired and genetic liver diseases...
Rising Blood Pressure Rates Seen Across US Counties
Date: Apr-09-2013New data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation show variations among communities, genders and ethnic groups in treatment and control of high blood pressure One in five Americans are completely unaware that they are at risk for the second leading cause of premature death: high blood pressure. In the first ever analysis of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension for every county, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington revealed significant differences across the US...
First Mutations Leading To Leukemia Identified
Date: Apr-09-2013The first mutations leading to leukemia in the mother's womb have been identified, according to researchers who sequenced the entire genomes of identical twins with the disease. The experts conducted their study at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). After examining two pairs of identical twins, the investigators discovered indicators of the emergence of leukemia in kids...
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