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Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. The study, published in Cur (Read More)
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A drug to stop bleeding during a brain injury and a mattress that will prevent bedsores are among the scientific discoveries at NJIT that received earlier this week more than a million dollars in funding from the New Jersey C (Read More)
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Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. (Read More)
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A study at Orebro University in Sweden indicates that mobile phones and other cordless telephones have a biological effect on the brain. It is still too early to say if any health risks are involved, but medical researcher Fr (Read More)
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A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery. Neurosurgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and (Read More)
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Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the full U.S. market release of MASTERGRAFT® Strip - a new, highly flexible ceramic scaffold intended for use in combination with a patient's own bone for fusing multiple levels of the po (Read More)
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An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant to (Read More)
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Enhancing the effects of dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. Published today in Current Biology, the study con (Read More)
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Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPHMD) announced that a newly published study shows that a phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting antibody similar to the company's lead product candidate bavituximab demonstrated potent an (Read More)
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