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Neurodegenerative Disease
Neurodegenerative Diseases: are debilitating and incurable conditions that result in progressive degeneration and / or death of nerve cells. These neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide. Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are the most common types.
MAR 22, 2016 | 8:15 AM
Genetic testing has been an important component of medical care for decades but the breadth and impact of testing has been steadily increasing as medical knowledge increases, appreciation of ...
MAR 17, 2016 | 7:30 AM
There is a growing appreciation of the relationship between gut microbiota, and the host in maintaining homeostasis in health and predisposing to disease. Bacterial colonisation of the gut pl...
MAR 16, 2016 | 10:30 AM
In the adult central nervous system (CNS) small populations of neurons are formed in the adult olfactory bulb and dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. In the adult hippocampus, newly born neuron...
JUL 22, 2015 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 22, 2015TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETHuman induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) bring human biology into pre-clinical aspects of drug discovery. iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes have em...
JUN 11, 2015 | 7:00 AM
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2015Time: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDT, 03:00PM BST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with nearly 44 million people affected worldwide. Chara...
MAY 13, 2015 | 6:00 AM
A new affinity-based spin column procedure has been developed for highly specific isolation of exosomes and other extracellular vesicles (EVs) from serum or plasma, as well as for vesicular R...
SEP 24, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Protein-protein interactions and allosterically regulated enzymes have been challenging but important targets for probe- and drug discovery. We and others have found that fragment-based lead...
