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What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Dravet Syndrome and Why Is It Hard to Treat?

Dravet syndrome is a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, resists most standard medications, and is caused by a single faulty g...

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Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91% Health

Zorevunersen Reduces Seizures in Dravet Syndrome by 91%

The experimental drug zorevunersen has reduced seizure frequency by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome. The results of a clinical trial publis...

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How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain Health

How Alzheimer's Disease Develops in the Brain

Alzheimer's disease begins silently decades before any symptoms appear. Here is what actually happens inside the brain — from rogue proteins to dying...

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What Is Tau Protein and How It Triggers Alzheimer's Health

What Is Tau Protein and How It Triggers Alzheimer's

Tau protein keeps brain cells healthy — until it doesn't. Here's how this tiny molecule goes rogue, forms toxic tangles, and drives Alzheimer's and ot...

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Work and Who They Help Science

How Brain-Computer Interfaces Work and Who They Help

Brain-computer interfaces translate raw neural signals into commands for machines — offering hope to people with paralysis, ALS, and other conditions....

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Bionic Eye Beats Blindness in Major NEJM Trial Health

Bionic Eye Beats Blindness in Major NEJM Trial

A wireless retinal implant has restored functional central vision to 81% of patients blinded by advanced age-related macular degeneration, according t...

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Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's Onset Years Ahead Health

Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's Onset Years Ahead

Scientists have developed a blood test that can estimate when Alzheimer's symptoms will emerge years before cognitive decline begins, opening a new wi...

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Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's Onset Years in Advance Health

Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's Onset Years in Advance

A new blood test measuring the protein p-tau217 can predict when a person will develop Alzheimer's symptoms with a margin of error of just 3–4 years,...

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New Blood Test Forecasts Alzheimer's 4 Years Out Health

New Blood Test Forecasts Alzheimer's 4 Years Out

A Washington University study published in Nature Medicine shows a blood test measuring the protein p-tau217 can predict Alzheimer's symptom onset wit...

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Shingles Vaccine Tops Alzheimer's Prevention Study Health

Shingles Vaccine Tops Alzheimer's Prevention Study

An international panel of 21 dementia experts screened 80 existing drugs and ranked the shingles vaccine as the most promising candidate for preventin...

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Mini spinal cord grown in laboratory and healed Health

Mini spinal cord grown in laboratory and healed

Scientists at Northwestern University created a mini model of the human spinal cord from stem cells, simulated traumatic injuries on it, and successfu...

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Lab-Grown Mini Spinal Cords Open New Front in Paralysis Research Health

Lab-Grown Mini Spinal Cords Open New Front in Paralysis Research

Northwestern University scientists have created the most advanced laboratory model of the human spinal cord to date, using it to simulate traumatic in...

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