Monthly Archives: March 2015

Recording seizures from within the brain

March 27th, 2015 (1 Comment)

Get out your tin foil hat: newer deep brain stimulation devices allow doctors to record seizures over many months

Regrouping on fragile X drug strategies

March 23rd, 2015 (No Comments)

Several clinical trials for people with fragile X syndrome didn’t meet organizers’ goals. The field is regrouping.

Potential HIV drugs hit three targets at once

March 19th, 2015 (No Comments)

News from the American Chemical Society meeting in Denver

ACC 2015: Newer heart risk calculator may better accounts for racial differences

March 16th, 2015 (No Comments)

ACC/AHA risk calculator includes effects from arterial stiffness, which affects African Americans more than Caucasians

Who regulates the regulators? Drosha

March 13th, 2015 (No Comments)

February 2015 paper in Molecular Cell on regulation of Drosha from Zixu Mao and colleagues

Are TrkB agonists ready for translation into the clinic?

March 12th, 2015 (No Comments)

7,8-dihydroxyflavone can be found in plants such as Godmania aescufolia, and has positive effects in animal models of several neurological diseases.

Next generation sequencing roundup

March 11th, 2015 (No Comments)

Incidental findings, insurance coverage, FDA regulation…

BAI1: a very multifunctional protein

March 10th, 2015 (No Comments)

Research on brain cancer leads to a discovery in the area of learning and memory