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Study pinpoints, prevents stress-induced drug relapse in rats
08-03-2013
All too often, stress turns addiction recovery into relapse, but years of basic brain research have provided scientists with insight that might allow them develop a medicine to help. A new study in the journal Neuron pinpoints the neural basis for stress-related relapse in rat models to an ...
Study in mice yields Angelman advance
Feb. 15 is International Angelman Day
14-02-2013
In a new study in mice, a scientific collaboration centered at Brown University lays out in unprecedented detail a neurological signaling breakdown in Angelman syndrome, a disorder that affects thousands of children each year, characterized by developmental delay, seizures, and other ...
Selenium suppresses staph on implant material
26-06-2012
Selenium is an inexpensive element that naturally belongs in the body. It is also known to combat bacteria. Still, it had not been tried as an antibiotic coating on a medical device material. In a new study, Brown University engineers report that when they used selenium nanoparticles to coat ...
Why carbon nanotubes spell trouble for cells
20-09-2011
It's been long known that asbestos spells trouble for human cells. Scientists have seen cells stabbed with spiky, long asbestos fibers, and the image is gory: Part of the fiber is protruding from the cell, like a quivering arrow that's found its mark.But scientists had been unable to ...
Magnetically controlled pill could boost body's absorption of drugs
19-01-2011
Do you want that in a pill or a shot? A pill, thank you, but most patients never have that choice. The problem with administering many medications orally is that a pill often will not dissolve at exactly the right site in the gastrointestinal tract where the medicine can be absorbed into ...
Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes
28-08-2009
Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to repair damaged neurons associated with disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease ...
URI awarded $13 million grant to develop vaccines for emerging infectious diseases
28-07-2009
University of Rhode Island Professor Annie De Groot has been awarded a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to pioneer the development and application of an integrated gene-to-vaccine program targeting emerging infectious diseases. It is the second multi-million dollar NIH ...
Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial
12-06-2009
BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The system is based on neuroscience, engineering and computer science ...
Lice genomes: Pieces of a new puzzle
31-03-2009
New research indicates that lice may actually be quite unique in the animal world. In a study published in Genome Research, scientists have analyzed the mitochondrial genome of the human body louse and discovered that it is fragmented into many pieces – a remarkable finding in animals that ...
Twin nanoparticle shown effective at targeting, killing breast cancer cells
12-03-2009
Breast cancer patients face many horrors, including those that arise when fighting the cancer itself. Medications given during chemotherapy can have wicked side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, anemia and hair loss. These side effects occur because medications released into the body ...
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