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• Brain disease resistance gene evolves in Papua New Guinea comm...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by scientists in the UK.
  2 weeks ago

• United States Changes Its Mind on Addiction - Its Not a Chronic Brain Disease After All

  
  Addiction in Society — Authority: 107
  Nora Volkow and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) insist, based on peering at MRIs, that addiction is a chronic brain disease.  You know - you saw it on HBO, and your kids learn this in school. But, as I point out to Nora, shes looking in the wrong place. If you examine actual human lives, addiction is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brain-eating ritual in tribes trigger striking example of rapid human evolution

  
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  London, November 19 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that a cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribes people were eaten by their relatives has triggered one of the most striking examples of rapid human evolution on record.In the middle of the 20th century, the Fore tribe of the Eastern Highlands ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orchids, daffodils, and mental illness

  
  ED Bites — Authority: 128
  I ran across a fantastic article in The Atlantic , titled The Science of Success , which examines the genetics of mental illness. Writes David Dobbs: Of special interest to the team was a new interpretation of one of the most important and influential ideas in recent psychiatric and personality research: that ...
  3 weeks ago

• New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease!

  
  Wide Trends — Authority: 140
  New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease! French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to apparently halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn’t cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain disease treated by gene therapy – A treatment based on HIV finds first success in…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A treatment based on HIV finds first success in humans.Researchers have halted a fatal brain disease by delivering a therapeutic gene to the stem cells that mature into blood cells. The gene was transferred using a virus derived from HIV, a technique that researchers have pursued for more than a decade but has not ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Resurgence for Gene Therapy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
  4 weeks ago

• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found.
  4 weeks ago

• New gene therapy halts 2 boys rare brain disease

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldnt cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter Tweets about ebay as of November 3, 2009

  
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  APerchedDove: Cleaning out my closet. About to sell most of my non-Loli clothes on eBay.2009-11-03 22:58:53 · Reply · ViewABLocalBargains: #eBay #Ballater! Locking Roof Box With Locking Roof Bars http://bit.ly/14Jb5i2009-11-03 22:58:41 · Reply · ViewLocal_Bargains: eBay Maybe Has Degenerative Brain Disease | The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Should mental illnesses be referred to as "brain diseases"?

  
  ED Bites — Authority: 128
  I stumbled across an interesting article in The Behavior Therapist, published by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, titled On the Brain Disease Model of Mental Disorders, by Brett Deacon and James Lickel . The "brain disease" model holds that mental illnesses are biologically-based and are the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Unlocking mysteries of the brain with PET

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
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  5 weeks ago

• Member of NFL Hall of Fame diagnosed with degenerative brain disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  (BOSTON) -- The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffe
  5 weeks ago

• Minds on the Edge

  
  ED Bites — Authority: 128
  Last week, a fantastic special on mental illness aired on PBS called Minds on the Edge that addresses many of the legal and ethical issues that people with mental illness (and their loved ones!) will face. Although the whole show was fantastic (and is worth watching), it was the hypothetical story of "Olivia" that ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (Paperback)

  
  Quick Penmanship — Authority: 440
  From Publishers Weekly Flaherty (The Massachusetts General Handbook of Neurology) mixes memoir, meditation, compendium and scholarly reportage in an odd but absorbing look [...]
  6 weeks ago

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