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ELRIG UK Elects Melanie Leveridge To Lead the Organisation as Chair
The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK, today announced the election of Melanie Leveridge as Chair. Melanie will guide the not-for-profit organisation serving the life science and drug discovery communities, to help drive further collaboration and knowledge exchange between academic and biopharma industry thought-leaders, through the provision of scientific meetings and conferences on an open access basis.
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Protein Tracer Could Help Track Parkinson's Progression
A new study describes an innovative approach for identifying molecules that can help track the progression of Parkinson's disease.
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Brain Implant Reveals Crosstalk Between Immune Cells and Sensory Neurons
Scientists at EPFL, ETH Zurich and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital have developed an implantable technology that enabled the discovery of an interaction between sensory neurons and immune cells.
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Computer Program Creates Images Based on Your Brain Waves
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to imagine what a human is thinking about. As a result of this imagining, the computer is able to produce entirely new information, such as fictional images that were never before seen.
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The Eye Adapts To Maintain Vision in Retinal Degenerative Disease
New insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time has been published today in the open-access eLife journal.
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These Mental Strategies Can Help Reduce the Perception of Pain
Is the heat still bearable, or should I take my hand off the hotplate? Before the brain can react appropriately to pain, it must evaluate and integrate sensory, cognitive and emotional factors, which requires the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. A new study has asked how cognitive strategies that affect one's subjective perception of pain influence the patterns of neural activity in the brain.
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How Tiny Movements Help Animals Sense the World Around Them
All animals great and small live every day in an uncertain world. Whether you are a human being or an insect, you rely on your senses to help you navigate and survive in your world. But what drives this essential sensing?
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Second Variant of Parkinson's Disease That Begins in the Gut Is Identified
New research suggests that Parkinson's disease is not one but two diseases, starting either in the brain or in the intestines. Which explains why patients with Parkinson's describe widely differing symptoms,. The findings points towards personalized medicine as the way forward for people with Parkinson's disease.
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Dr Kawashima Was Right: Playing Video Games As a Child May Boost Memory in Adulthood
A number of studies have shown how playing video games can lead to structural changes in the brain, including increasing the size of some regions, or to functional changes, such as activating the areas responsible for attention or visual-spatial skills. New research has gone further to show how cognitive changes can take place even years after people stop playing.
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$111 Million NIH Grant Awarded To Combat HIV-Associated Cancers
For 25 years, the AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) has led national and international efforts to prevent and treat HIV-related cancers. Now, Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have received a five-year, $111 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to lead this research consortium.
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