Working towards the ultimate goal to develop therapeutics to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,…
Month: June 2015
Smartphone app may prevent dangerous freezing of gait in Parkinson’s patients
CuPID is striving to provide personalized rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s disease who experience gait…
Study highlights ‘important safety issue’ with widely used MRI contrast agents
New results in animals highlight a major safety concern regarding a class of magnetic resonance…
Artificial blood to assist in mosquito control research
Scientists continue to advance research on controlling one of the world’s most notorious species of…
Cancer drug makes fruit flies live longer
Adult fruit flies given a cancer drug live 12 percent longer than average, according to…
What controls blood flow in the brain?
Scientists present the strongest evidence yet that smooth muscle cells surrounding blood vessels in the…
Calcium uptake by mitochondria makes heart beat harder in fight-or-flight response
In a life-threatening situation, the heart beats faster and harder, invigorated by the fight-or-flight response,…
Songbirds have a thing for patterns
You might think that young children would first learn to recognize sounds and then learn…
Potential drug lessens neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease model
The first test in a mammalian model of a potential new class of drugs to…
Functional class helps predict mortality risk after surgery
Information on functional status—whether or not a person can carry out routine daily tasks independently—improves…