1. Researchers have found a compound P7C3 to boost pro-duction of brain cells, protects new cells from dying in mice, humans, rodents and rats. The results were drawn after the screening of individual 1000 molecules. The study took a span of 3 years and a budget of US$2.5 mil-lion.
2. A randomized study in Toronto gave some stroke patients a variety of Wii games, including cooking and kids’ games, and left others to traditional recreation. Those who played with Wii demonstrated “significant” motor skill improvement, compared with the controls. It turns out that Wii can also improve motor skills, the deli-cate interplay among brain, nerves and muscles that is interrupted by a stroke.
3. A nanotechnology using principles first discovered by Pierre Curie could make cancer detection as cheap and easy as a home pregnancy test. Pierre and his brother Paul-Jacques were credited in the early 1880s with piezo-electricity, the ability of crystals and ceramics to generate small electric fields. This can be detected with devices called acoustic wave sensors (AWS), made much like computer chips. What Jae Kwon has done at the University of Missouri is to create AWS devices that work in liquid and can detect differences in the property of cancerous and non-cancerous cells, which have different masses. These micro/nano-electromechanical systems (M/NEMS) are smaller than a human hair, but deliver almost immediate results.
4. Fat injections can help restore normal speech and improve quality of life in patients with paralyzed vocal cords, new research shows.
5. Cancer survivors who participated in a month-long program in the ancient art of yoga reported en-hanced quality of life, better sleep, less fatigue and less need for sleep medications.
6. Creativity often goes hand-in-hand with mental ill-ness, such as schizophrenia. The brain responds differently to the "feel good" chemical dopamine in both schizophrenics and the highly creative people , According to new research out of Sweden, both share similar dopamine systems in the brain.
7. A large study of European populations has uncovered seven new clusters of defective genes which may be responsible for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling disease that affects mainly the joints.
Student Focus | 2nd Edition
by Muhammad Sheraz Alam
D.P.T, College of Physiotherapy
K.E.M.U, Lahore
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