The discovery is a step towards harnessing the protective effects of cooling the brain to treat patients with acute brain injury and even to prevent dementias, such as Alzheimer’s. When the body cools down significantly, it increases its levels of RBM3, a molecule known as the cold shock protein – a phenomenon first observed in […]
‘Biohybrid’ device could restore function in paralysed limbs
Researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms or legs.
Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture Monday 27th February
Professor Patrick Chinnery will be delivering a lecture to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on Monday 27th February. Further details are included in the poster below. POSTER – Patrick Chinnery LENT 2023 The lecture is free and open to everyone who is interested to attend.
Clinical trial for new stem cell-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease given go ahead
The Swedish Medical Products Agency has granted approval for the trial to proceed; ethical approval has already been obtained from the Swedish Ethics Review Authority. The team, led from Lund University in Sweden, is poised to begin recruitment. STEM-PD uses human embryonic stem cells, a type of cell that can turn into almost any type of […]
Scientists detect dementia signs as early as nine years ahead of diagnosis
In research published today in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, the team analysed data from the UK Biobank and found impairment in several areas, such as problem solving and number recall, across a range of conditions. The findings raise the possibility that in the future, at-risk patients could be screened to […]
‘Digital mask’ could protect patients’ privacy in medical records
Scientists have created a ‘digital mask’ that will allow facial images to be stored in medical records while preventing potentially sensitive personal biometric information from being extracted and shared.
Ultra-powerful brain scanners offer hope for Parkinson’s disease patients
7T MRI scanners could be used to help identify those patients with Parkinson’s disease and similar conditions most likely to benefit from new treatments for previously-untreatable symptoms, say scientists.
Immune cell characteristics mapped across multiple tissues
The research, from the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, and collaborators, has created an open-access atlas of the immune cells in the human body and focuses on those found within tissues, which are understudied, compared to those circulating in the blood. This study is part of the international Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which […]
‘Stressed’ cells offer clues to eliminating build-up of toxic proteins in dementia
A characteristic of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s – collectively known as neurodegenerative diseases – is the build-up of misfolded proteins. These proteins, such as amyloid and tau in Alzheimer’s disease, form ‘aggregates’ that can cause irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain. Protein folding is a normal process in the body, and […]
Cognitive impairment from severe COVID-19 equivalent to 20 years of ageing, study finds
The findings, published in the journal eClinicalMedicine, emerge from the NIHR COVID-19 BioResource. The results of the study suggest the effects are still detectable more than six months after the acute illness, and that any recovery is at best gradual. There is growing evidence that COVID-19 can cause lasting cognitive and mental health problems, with […]
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