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Hirnregionen automatisch bestimmen

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2016Healthandrew straw, automatisch, bestimmen, florian schulze, funktion des gehirns, hirnregion, karin panser, laszlo tirian, universitaet freiburg

Biologen entwickeln neue Analysemethode von Hirnaufnahmen und zeigen deren Anwendbarkeit am Beispiel von Fruchtfliegen

Muster in der genetischen Aktivität von Nervenzellen erkennen und daraus Rückschlüsse auf den Aufbau des Gehirns ziehen: Wie das möglich ist, zeigt ein Team von Biologinnen und Biologen um Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw am Beispiel von Fruchtfliegen. Die Arbeiten zu der Studie, die in der Fachzeitschrift „Current Biology“ erschienen ist, fanden an der Universität Freiburg und am Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pathologie (IMP) in Wien/Österreich statt.

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Political pitfalls in handling Ebola may carry over to Zika

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2016Health, Politicsebola czar, ebola outbreak, handling ebola, politicizing health issues, politicizing of zika, strategic politicization

ANN ARBOR — If the United States responds to Zika the way it did to Ebola—and early indications are that in many ways it is—the country can expect missteps brought about by a lack of health care coordination and a lot of political finger pointing, according to an analysis by the University of Michigan. (more…)

Conception timed with periods of low mosquito activity could reduce Zika virus infection

By Guest PostAugust 16, 2016Healthaedes aegypti, alex perkins, conception time, genus flavivirus, infection, micaela martinez, mosquito activity, pregnancy, primary carrier, zika virus

Women could prevent contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus while pregnant by timing the first months of pregnancy with seasonal declines in mosquito activity, according to a new paper. The paper is the first to suggest that women in the numerous countries affected by the Zika virus epidemic can still safely pursue motherhood rather than forgo pregnancy altogether. (more…)

Copper is Key in Burning Fat

By Guest PostAugust 15, 2016Healthburning fat, copper, copper supplements, fat metabolism, obesity research

Berkeley Lab scientist says results could provide new target for obesity research

A new study is further burnishing copper’s reputation as an essential nutrient for human physiology. A research team led by a scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at UC Berkeley has found that copper plays a key role in metabolizing fat. (more…)

Ready to fight against calcium disorders

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2016Healthcalcium disorders, calcium sensing receptor, casr, hypocalcemia, jenny yang, neonatal hyperparathyroidism, protein

Michigan State University was part of a team that’s providing new insights into the molecular basis of human diseases resulting from mutations in the calcium-sensing receptor, or CaSR, a protein found in cell membranes. (more…)

IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer and Diseases at the Nanoscale

By Guest PostAugust 1, 2016Health, Technologybiological particles, cancernanoscale, carlos cordon cardoseparate, chip breakthroug, detect, gustavo stolovitzky, ibm

IBM scientists will collaborate with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to test on prostate cancer

Yorktown Heights, N.Y. – 01 Aug 2016: IBM scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear. (more…)

3 Options for Coping with Social Anxiety

By Guest PostJuly 30, 2016General, Health, Scienceadam cook, addiction, addictionhub, asd, coping, meditation, ptsd, self medication, social anxiety, website, yoga

Social anxiety can be a crippling disability to live with. It can interfere with your ability to make friends, find romantic connections, and even leave your home. Learning to cope properly is important because many people resort to self-medication, which leads to addiction. Healthy ways to manage anxiety come in many forms, and each person needs to find what works for them. With that in mind, we share a few options for people to cope with social anxiety in healthy ways. (more…)

Stem cell advance could be key step toward treating deadly blood diseases

By Guest PostJuly 28, 2016Healthblood diseases, diana dou, hanna mikkola, hoxa genes, stem cell, vincenzo calvanese

UCLA scientists get closer to creating blood stem cells in the lab

Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have made several discoveries that are critically important to understanding how blood stem cells are created and maintained — both in the body and in the laboratory. (more…)

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