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Marine Biological Laboratory [ Watch The Video Spinal Cord Regerenation In Sea Lamprey ] Discovery will accelerate research on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence is reported this week in the...
The origin of an innate ability the brain has to protect itself from damage that occurs in stroke has been explained for the first time. The Oxford University researchers hope that harnessing this inbuilt biological mechanism, identified in rats, could help in treating stroke and preventing other neurodegenerative diseases in the future. 'We have shown for the first time that the brain has mechanisms that it can use to protect itself and keep brain cells alive,' says Professor Alastair...
Neuron-ESB 3.0 simplifies Application Integration and Web Services for the Microsoft Platform IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to extend its lead on Integration and SOA middleware built on the Microsoft platform, Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV and a trusted technology partner in business innovation, announced today the release of version 3.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron-ESB 3.0 is the latest version of Neudesic's Enterprise Service Bus that...
[ Watch the Video: Scientists Read a Mouse’s Mind ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers at Stanford University have revealed a new technique for observing hundreds of neurons firing in real time in the brain of a live mouse. They have linked this activity to long-term information storage. The unprecedented work, published in a recent issue of Nature Neuroscience, could provide a useful tool for designing new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Are you tired of being cold all the time? Do you wish you could turn the cold off at the push of a button? Well neuroscientists from the University of South Carolina (USC) may have some good news for you. It seems this group of researchers, led by David McKemy, associate professor of neurobiology in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science, have been able to isolate chilliness at the cellular level, identifying a...
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 2 young EPFL scientists have developed a device that can create 3-D images of living cells and track their reaction to various stimuli without the use of contrast dyes or fluorophores In the world of microscopy, this advance is almost comparable to the leap from photography to live television. Two young EPFL researchers, Yann Cotte and Fatih Toy, have designed a device that combines holographic microscopy and computational image processing to...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE MKT: CUR) announced that President and CEO Richard Garr will present at the 15(th) Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2013 in New York City on Tuesday, February 12, at 9:30 a.m. EST, in the Duke of Windsor Room at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Garr will present an update on the company's NSI-566 cell therapy clinical trials, including the FDA-approved chronic spinal cord injury Phase I; ALS Phase II; and the...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA has revealed that the disease process in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) involves a complex genetic interplay between motor neurons and astrocytes. Motor neurons are the cells that die during the disease, leading to paralysis. Astrocytes normally support motor neurons but switch to the opposite role during disease progression. ALS is a progressive...
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute In stroke and other neurological disorders, nitric oxide damages neurons and blocks the brain's ability to repair itself Nitric oxide, a gaseous molecule produced in the brain, can damage neurons. When the brain produces too much nitric oxide, it contributes to the severity and progression of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute recently discovered that nitric oxide...
Cell Press [ Video 1 ] [ Video 2 ] For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric drug discovery, according to authors of the study, appearing online on January 31 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. "Our work is the first to show brain activities in real time in an intact animal during that animal's natural...
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Formation and Orientation The development of the brain is broken down into stages. The basic evolution begins in the third week of the embryonic process where the neural plate is formed. By week four, the neural plate has developed into the neural tube. The anterior part of the tube, the telencephalon, grows rapidly as it prepares to later give way to the brain. As time goes on, cells begin to classify themselves as either neurons or glial cells, thus determining their functions. Glial...
