Sentences with phrase «new brain tissue»

Sleep deprivation can even hinder the process of memory consolidation, as well as the development of new brain tissue.

But some scientists remain dubious that stem cells can be used to grow new brain tissue.

Week 34 Brain development is rapid and thus the size of the head is growing to hold new brain tissue.

«We took advantage of the fact that transplanted interneurons can integrate remarkably well into new brain tissues, and that each interneuron can control thousands of excitatory neurons,» said Palop, who is also an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Not exact matches

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

Include protein - rich food in your diet — this means more of fish and lean meats because your body needs amino acids to build new cells and develop feat brain, heart, muscle and tissue.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

Yet Friston says the techniques used to analyze brain tissue density in the new study are extremely strict.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

The Zika virus can cross the blood - brain barrier, and could target cancer cells, sparing normal adult brain tissue and opening a potential new way to attack the disease.

Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during surgery and distinguish between healthy and diseased tissues.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

This early stage research will explore how the virus targets stem cells and provide the starting point to develop new treatments that seek out the tumour and spare the surrounding healthy brain tissue.

In the new study, researchers mined databases of genomic data from humans and chimpanzees, to find enhancers expressed primarily in the brain tissue and early in development.

In precision medicine era legacy gifts of patient brain tissue reveal disease mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Right now, the only widely available treatment for preventing brain damage from stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which breaks up blood clots; it must be given within a few hours to be effective, and though it limits initial damage, it doesn't help the brain restore lost synapses or form new ones.

Four weeks after the team switched on the enzyme, they found that tissue had regenerated in several organs, new brain cells were developing and the mice were living longer.

A dye used for more than a century to stain autopsied brain tissue can prevent the devastating effects of Huntington's disease in mice, new research shows.

Now, a team from the University of Rochester in New York, led by neurobiologist Martha C. Bohn, reports promising results using a less invasive scheme: The researchers injected engineered viruses directly into the afflicted brain tissue of rats.

«Zebrafish brain repair following concussion: New model enables study of animal's remarkable ability to regenerate injured brain tissue.»

Like Lieber's new brain implant, it matches the physical qualities of the tissue where it is embedded.

Research from the University of Copenhagen is shedding new light on the brain's complicated barrier tissue.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

By removing tissue from each side of Molaison's brain, the surgeon helped quell the attacks but destroyed his patient's ability to form new memories.

In their new paper, Cheyette and his team examined the gene DIXDC1 — a key piece of the WNT signaling pathway that is active in tissues of the brain and interacts with DISC1, a gene implicated in schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorders.

«These images give us a new sense of the raw and fluid complexity of brain tissue,» he says.

Like muscle, brain tissue can change with «exercise», he claims, so a valid new question is whether the changes would reverse without practice.

New neurons (green) were visible in a newborn's brain (top), but not in brain tissue from a 35 - year - old man (bottom).

For the new analysis, his team spent 5 years collecting brain tissue from 59 people who had died or had such tissue removed during surgery for epilepsy at different ages, ranging from before birth to 77 years of age.

In a new study, published 11 August in Science, researchers classified neurons from mouse and human brain tissue by their methylation patterns.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

New studies are examining contributing factors ranging from vaccine reactions to atypical growth in the placenta, abnormal tissue in the gut, inflamed tissue in the brain, food allergies, and disturbed brain wave synchrony.

Dr Kaye Morgan, lead researcher on the paper from Monash University, said the new x-ray imaging method allows researchers to look at soft tissue structures, for example the brain, airways and lungs, which are effectively invisible in conventional x-ray images.

«Discovery could lead to better recovery after stroke: Researchers identify molecule that signals brain tissue to make new connections.»

A better understanding of the nerve fibers that carry signals from the brain to fat tissues could lead to new obesity drugs

A new genetic analysis reveals that our brawny cousins had a number of distinct genes involved in the buildup of certain types of fat in their brains and other tissues — a trait shared by today's Europeans, but not Asians.

If the compound identified in this study successfully reduces tissue death and improves recovery in further experiments, it could lead to new approaches for preserving brain cells after an ischemic stroke,» said Francesca Bosetti, Ph.D., Pharm.D., program director at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

The development of the brain - like tissue cultures not only opens doors to new research approaches.

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

«Linking the navigation capability with these new results would allow therapeutics to be delivered directly to a specific site of the brain, potentially improving significantly the efficacy of the treatment while avoiding systemic circulation of toxic agents that affect healthy tissues and organs,» Carret added.

New studies in mice have shown that immature stem cells that proliferate to form brain tissues can function for at least a year — most of the life span of a mouse — and give rise to multiple types of...

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University have discovered a new hormone produced by fat tissue and presumably acting on the brain to regulate weight.

Harnessing the powerful healing properties of adult stem cells found in your own fat tissue, Okyanos Cell Therapy offers new hope for this neurodegenerative condition by enabling brain and nerve cell repair for the chance at an improved quality of life.

We are using a new technique, called single cell RNA sequencing, to isolate thousands of single neurons from human brain tissue, study all the genes that are expressed in each individual cell, and make cell - to - cell comparisons between normal, early stage and late stage AD.

Thomson still supports lifting Bush's restrictions, he said, because no one knows whether the new iPS cells can match embryonic cells» knack for growing into any kind of tissue — brain cells, heart muscle, insulin - producing cells and dozens of others — in mass quantities.

Dublin — 9th March, 2018 — Researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science institute have developed a new biomaterial which is capable of both regenerating tissues which respond to electrical stimuli (such as the nerves, spinal cord, heart, brain and muscles) as well as eliminating infection — an ever - growing problem in hospitals.