Sentences with phrase «nervous system scientists»

October 26, 2016 Restoring the sense of touch in amputees using natural signals of the nervous system Scientists at the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University have found a way to produce realistic sensations of touch in two human amputees by directly stimulating the nervous system.

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One day, scientists hope to use sensors in the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.

New research led by University of Queensland scientist Associate Professor Bryan Fry has shown the venom of young brown snakes attacks the nervous system, while the venom of older snakes has dangerous effects on the circulatory system.

Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research on the effects of the Zika virus on the nervous system.

About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells.

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

«Our findings help us understand how the nervous system is communicating with the immune system, and the consequences of it,» said co-senior author Vijay Kuchroo, PhD, senior scientist at BWH, and an associate member of the Broad Institute.

But scientists are making progress in refining these therapies, and the first ever trial of fetal stem cells injected directly into the brain is currently under way in children with Batten disease, a rare and fatal illness of the nervous system.

Based on these observations, the scientists concluded that throughout the course of evolution the nervous system also participated in a controlling role for the microbiome, in addition to its sensory and motor tasks.

Until recently, many scientists viewed immune cells and the central nervous system (CNS) as a deadly mix.

Targeting problems in the nervous system, together with the harmful immune reactions, is essential, scientists say.

Scientists suspect this is to avoid overwhelming their nervous systems, which would have trouble coordinating a large number of bends and rotations.

Scientists describe these infectious connections as virological «synapses» because they resemble the way that cells of the nervous system or the immune system communicate through intimate cell - to - cell connections.

Many scientists and doctors familiar with the disease had long suspected a retrovirus, an organism rife in nature that invades the immune and central nervous systems, as seen in AIDS.

For these reasons, the scientists hypothesized that Del - 1 might prevent inflammation in the central nervous system just as it does in the gum tissue.

Tissue grafted into the central nervous system sparks a far less hostile response than tissue grafted to other parts of the body, prompting scientists to consider the brain «immunologically privileged.»

Much has been uncovered about its role in the brain and nervous system, but few scientists considered how sNGF levels in people's saliva might be related to the behavioral and biological components of the body's stress response.

Stephen Davies, a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado at Denver who studies nervous system regeneration using stem cells, is one of the key scientists working to overcome the obstacles in place.

About 13 projects in expression and regulation concerned the nervous system, and institute scientists are leaders in regulation of neural development, information storage in neurons, and sensory mechanisms.

Using a powerful imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.

«Scientists discover stem cells that build a fly's nervous system: Study in fruit flies sheds light on key aspect of development; findings could build understanding of comparable system in people.»

Such research promises to give scientists a better understanding of how transplanted tissue connects to the nervous system, paving the way for improved regenerative therapies in humans.

«Neurons outside of the central nervous system have many functions, from relaying sensory information to controlling organ function, but some of these peripheral neural circuits are not yet well understood,» says Ben Deverman, senior research scientist and director of the Beckman Institute's CLOVER Center.

Scientists have developed the first true animal model of Huntington's disease, a progressive and often fatal deterioration of the central nervous system.

Scientists working on AI are aware of this disparity and are trying to build ever more humanlike central nervous systems, such as computers that «learn» through trial and error.

What's more, in female rats lacking ovaries — prone to hot flashes, depression, memory problems, and stroke — DHED reversed these nervous system — linked menopause symptoms without any detectable impacts on the rest of the body, the scientists report online today in Science Translational Medicine.

Research from other scientists at Johns Hopkins, he says, had suggested that some tumors, particularly those that affect the nervous system, have mutations in the ATRX gene, which produces proteins that appear to maintain the length of telomeres, repetitive segments of DNA on the ends of chromosomes that typically shorten each time a cell divides.

Prior to Gouaux's study, scientists had only a limited view of how those subtypes were arranged in the NMDA receptor complex and how they interacted to carry out specific functions within the brain and central nervous system.

DEET is great at keeping away mosquitoes — 200 million people around the world rely on it — but this common insect repellent may also interfere with the human nervous system, a group of European scientists warn.

New research might bring a frown to even the most heavily botoxed faces, with scientists finding how some of the potent toxin used for cosmetic surgery escapes into the central nervous system.

Scientists have unraveled how mutant molecules damage the nervous system of people with Charcot - Marie - Tooth (CMT) disease, a group of disorders that hinder people's ability to move and feel sensation in their hands and feet, according to a paper published October 21, 2015 in Nature.

Specifically, stem cell scientists at McMaster can now directly convert adult human blood cells to both central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) neurons as well as neurons in the peripheral nervous system (rest of the body) that are responsible for pain, temperature and itch perception.

Typhoid vaccine, cardiac catheterization, even electrodes implanted in the nervous system came about because scientists recruited themselves as their own guinea pigs.

Special Online Collection: Modeling the Mind This week, Science and its online companion sites explore how scientists are using mathematical models and computer simulations to study and predict the behavior of the nervous system.

To accompany the story, we've collected images from his recent book, which describes the tools that scientists have used to observe the nervous system from the second century to the present.

Scientists studying the condition have mostly concentrated on the central nervous system, but Rejji Kuruvilla, an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biology, said that leaves out a lot.

Investigating the participants» cerebral structure, scientists were able to relate their behaviours with the anatomy of specific areas of the nervous system.

«Research traces cause of organ dysfunction in Down syndrome: Scientists find overload of one gene hinders peripheral nervous system.»

Scientists hope that this latest finding could help clarify how the disease destroys the central nervous system.

A team of international scientists led by Baylor College of Medicine has discovered a novel gene (CLP1) associated with a neurological disorder affecting both the peripheral and central nervous systems.

Not only are neuropathic pain symptoms quite common in knee osteoarthritis (OA), but scientists can predict who will respond to treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by assessing the nervous system's own capacity to regulate pain, new research suggests.

This includes a study published Nov. 21, 2016 by Nature Medicine, in which scientists generated human intestine with an enteric nervous system.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy and functional neurons, shown in green in this image in the brain of a mouse with Alzheimer's disease.

«We believe the mother's immune response to HSV - 2 could be disrupting fetal central nervous system development, raising risk for autism,» says lead author Milada Mahic, a post-doctoral research scientist with the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy, functional neurons, which are critical for transmitting signals in the brain.

«We know there are receptors for vitamin D throughout the central nervous system and in the hippocampus,» said Robert J. Przybelski, a doctor and research scientist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

«This protein is highly expressed in the nervous system and has an integral role in neuronal development,» said Elizabeth Wilson - Kubalek, senior staff scientist in Professor Ron Milligan's laboratory at TSRI and co-first author of the new paper with Christopher Garnham and Annapurna Vemu of the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Ultimately, the enhanced understanding of central nervous system organization that has derived from the research of these three scientists may lead to new and more effective ways to repair diseased or damaged circuits embedded in the human brain and spinal cord.

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), working closely with researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have mapped out the structure of an important protein involved in cellular function and nervous system development.