2 genes responsible for causing aggressive brain cancer found
The Times of India Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:33 AM PST
The two genes -- C/EPB and Stat3 -- which were found by researchers from Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology can lead to diagnosis of the incurable tumours -- glioblastoma multiforme, journal Nature reported. |
Despite illnesses, she savors home, family
The Bay Bulletin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:43 AM PST
PALM BAY รข€" For a while, 53-year-old Druscilla Maynard didn't know if she would live to see another Christmas, let alone celebrate it with family members. Nearly two years after battling breast cancer and a brain tumor, the Palm Bay mother of three finds herself relishing the simple joys. |
How Do We Understand Written Language?
Medical News Today Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:24 AM PST
How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the USA have now identified a specific part of the brain - named the left fusiform gyrus - which is necessary for normal, rapid understanding of the meaning of written text as well ... |
The disease from a dark place
Vancouver Sun Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:17 AM PST
Multiple sclerosis is a frustrating black box. Something is going on in that box that leads to lesions in the brain and damage to the myelin insulating layer on nerve cells. What that means to patients such as Gabrielle Veto is muscle pain, loss of strength, constant fatigue, occasional paralysis and the spectre of life in a wheelchair always lurking beyond the next attack. |
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