Ear wax as a possible screening medium for Parkinson’s disease

26-Jun-2025 - Most treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD) only slow disease progression. Early intervention for the neurological disease that worsens over time is therefore critical to optimize care, but that requires early diagnosis. Current tests, like clinical rating scales and neural imaging, can be ...

Pesco-vegetarian diets best for reducing risk of death in elderly

Pure vegetarian diets not as protective against certain neurological diseases in elderly

27-Aug-2024 - A variety of vegetarian diets appear to protect against risk of mortality and contributing conditions, with a pesco-vegetarian diet — which includes fish — providing the most protection against risk in very elderly people, according to a new study. Researchers at Loma Linda University Health ...

Soft gold enables connections between nerves and electronics

13-Aug-2024 - Gold does not readily lend itself to being turned into long, thin threads. But researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have now managed to create gold nanowires and develop soft electrodes that can be connected to the nervous system. The electrodes are soft as nerves, stretchable and ...

Novel approach for treatment of Parkinson's disease

Lario Therapeutics awarded $6M Grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

24-Jul-2024 - Lario Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class precision medicines for epileptic and neurological disorders, announced it has been awarded a $6 million USD grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF). The programme is in collaboration with ...

Parkinson's disease - New test procedure enables early detection in patients at risk

Up to seven years before the onset of typical motor symptoms

21-Jun-2024 - In an international cooperation project, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the Paracelsus-Elena-Klinik Kassel and University College London (UCL) have developed a test procedure that makes it possible to predict the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in at-risk ...

Innovative treatment helmet from a Basel spin-off promises advances in the treatment of Alzheimer’s

There is a huge market for the treatment of patients with degenerative brain diseases

15-Apr-2024 - The Basel spin-off company Bottneuro is developing a personalized treatment helmet – the Miamind neurostimulator. Thanks to targeted brain electrostimulation, the innovative device is intended to have a positive effect on the course of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, as there is a huge market for ...

World's first high-resolution brain developed by 3D printer

New model can advance research into neurodegenerative diseases

22-Mar-2024 - In a joint project between TU Wien and MedUni Vienna, the world's first 3D-printed "brain phantom" has been developed, which is modelled on the structure of brain fibres and can be imaged using a special variant of magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). As a scientific team led by TU Wien and MedUni ...

Vandria awarded €3.8M in prestigious Innosuisse and Eurostars grants

Grants to advance innovative drug programs for age-related diseases of the CNS and muscle

14-Feb-2024 - Vandria SA announced that it has been awarded two grants totalling € 3.8M from Innosuisse and Eurostars to support its two lead drug candidates addressing CNS and muscle diseases, respectively. This financial support from two independent research granting agencies is validation of Vandria’s ...

Parkinson’s disease: When the Cellular Waste Collector Doesn’t Show Up

Mechanism identified that promotes the breakdown of harmful protein deposits. If it malfunctions, it can lead to Parkinson’s disease

04-Jan-2024 - NEMO, a protein that is primarily associated with signaling processes in the immune system, prevents the deposition of protein aggregates that occur in Parkinson’s disease. For this purpose, it binds to certain protein chains that serve as markers for cellular waste removal, thus promoting the ...

Medical innovations with disruptive potential

Start-ups presented their ideas at the “Munich Demo Day” of the BioTech Bootcamp of BioM and SmiLe

12-Dec-2023 - As part of this year's BioTech Bootcamp ofBioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH and the life science business incubator„SmiLe Incubator“ from Lund, Sweden, the international, eight-week training program for prospective founders and young companies climaxed in the Munich “Demo Week”. Nine teams, ...