A drug used for decades for liver diseases could effectively slow down Parkinson’s
It seems like re-purposing drugs can be a gold mine for future drug development. Now, scientists have discovered that a ...
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Scientists successfully implant new neurons into the brain
Scientists have "reprogrammed" skin cells to act as neurons and then successfully implanted them into the brain of mice. After ...
Skin cells of a monkey reverse engineered into stem cells
Researchers have managed to take skin cells from monkeys, reverse engineer them into stem cells, and then transplant into the ...
Parkinson’s tremors significantly reduced after electrical signal cancels brain waves
Credit: John-Stuart Brittain et al./Current Biology For most Parkinson's patients, tremors associated with this devastating disease make living a normal ...
Intelligent nanoparticles drop anti-aging cargo
A group of researchers have successfully tested a novel nanodevice treatment, in which intelligent nanoparticles selectively open and release drugs ...
New method allows visualizing of protein self-assembly – paves way for nanotech against diseases
Be it a bacteria or a fully complex being, say a human, all living, biological organisms undergo lighting fast protein ...
Scientists genetically engineer glowing dog
(c) Genesis In a recent groundbreaking research study, scientists from Seoul National University in South Korea have successfully created a ...
Gene therapy for Parkinson disease boasts remarkable results
While gene-therapy is still regarded as a very innovative practice, it seems like the procedure might take traction as of ...
Bad science: injecting meth instead of ecstasy for trials
It never ceases to amaze me how this kind of idiotic, or perhaps even intentionally wrong studies are published and ...
Potential Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Cure Found In Century-old Drug
Every once in a while, you hear about the hardest of problems that have really easy solutions. In numerous cases, ...