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Alzheimer’s disease has thwarted the best of modern medicine. No treatment can halt the brain-destroying illness. It’s the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States and third in San Diego, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/17/ucsd-alzheimer-trial-solanezumab/
In the present study, we found that CBD inhibited U87-MG and T98G cell proliferation and invasiveness in vitro and caused a decrease in the expression of a set of proteins specifically involved in growth, invasion and angiogenesis.
Carmat hopes to finish human trials of its artificial heart by the end of next year and to obtain regulatory approval for an EU launch by early 2015, its chief executive told Reuters.
President Obama announced Thursday an administrative change in one of the bedrock ideas of the new health-care law, allowing insurers to continue offering individual insurance plans for another year even if they do not comply with the law’s rules for minimum benefits.
Heavy smokers who regularly puffed more than a packet of cigarettes a day cut down or quit for six months after their brains were stimulated with magnets, researchers say.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/12/smokers-quit-magnetic-brain-stimulation
A father’s cocaine use may make his sons less sensitive to the drug and thereby more likely to resist addictive behaviors, suggests new findings from an animal study presented by Penn Medicine researchers at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2013/11/wimmer/
A new "broadband" invisibility cloak which hides objects over a wide range of frequencies has been devised.
New research from a team of researchers in Taiwan indicates that a peptide fragment derived from cow’s milk, known as lactoferricin B25 (LFcinB25), exhibited potent anticancer capability against human stomach cancer cell cultures. The findings, published in the Journal of Dairy Science®, provide support for future use of LFcinB25 as a potential therapeutic agent for gastric cancer.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=136242&CultureCode=en
This microscopic image shows dozens of individual bacterial cells of the recently discovered species Tersicoccus phoenicis. This species has been found in only two places: clean rooms in Florida and South America where spacecraft are assembled for launch.
An 8-year-old girl in Jiangsu Province is the youngest person in China to have received a diagnosis of lung cancer, which a doctor treating her has attributed to air pollution, according to an official news report.
