01 Mar 2011
Move over, genome, transcriptome, proteome. The latest ome aims to map every metabolite linked to human health and disease. Metabolomics, although still a nascent field, offers hope for biomarkers and treatments in neurodegenerative disease. The field
01 Mar 2011
Metabolomics has given researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease plenty to think about...
01 Mar 2011
Researchers show that prion infection and propagation can be separated from toxicity...
01 Mar 2011
For creatures ranging from yeast to worms to mice, impaired growth hormone signaling restricts size but brings big benefits...
28 Feb 2011
Metabolomics holds the promise of giant metabolite screens, leading to a bounty of clues to Alzheimer’s disease...
28 Feb 2011
A new study reports that smoking boosts one’s risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
27 Feb 2011
In the case of ALS, neuroscientists have come to believe that overexcitation of motor neurons contributes to excitotoxicity and degeneration...
25 Feb 2011
The human body contains thousands of metabolites, and metabolomics scientists plan to measure them all...
25 Feb 2011
Faulty autophagy is linked to Alzheimer’s and other age-related diseases...
25 Feb 2011
Modern scientists would like to know how to incorporate technology into the human body in order to help disabled people regain normal functions...
24 Feb 2011
You could say biological researchers have been binging on omes this past decade...
24 Feb 2011
While PD claims are well substantiated, other uses require much more careful study before both doctors and patients should rush to adopt deep-brain stimulation...
24 Feb 2011
This year’s MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease go to Randy Buckner and Marcus Raichle...
24 Feb 2011
The last decade has seen study after study confirm that falling amyloid-β (Aβ) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an indicator of incipient AD...
22 Feb 2011
Despite decades of research, much about how our memory works remains a mystery...