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Smart biomaterial drug delivery system could improve CNS injury recovery europeanpharmaceuticalreview
September 21, 2020
The implanted biomaterial drug delivery system releases methylprednisolone and reduces inflammation, promoting central nervous system (CNS) repair.
NUS scientists develop artificial nervous system biospectrumasia
July 22, 2019
Robots and prosthetic devices may soon have a sense of touch equivalent to, or better than, the human skin with the Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES), an artificial nervous system developed by a team of researchers at the National University of Si
Combating Alzheimer's by restoring the brain's clean-up crew fiercepharma
April 04, 2019
In the central nervous system, microglia are responsible for scouting around for debris such as damaged neurons and protein plaques, and then cleaning it up in a process known as phagocytosis.
Good News, Bad News on Levodopa for Parkinson's Disease drugs
January 24, 2019
The most potent drug available for Parkinson's disease, levodopa, treats symptoms of the disease but does nothing to either ease or increase its still-mysterious underlying causes, a new clinical trial has concluded.....
Beware of Stressful Events in the Evening drugs
December 17, 2018
Stress in the evening may take more of a toll on your body than stress at other times of day, a new study suggests.The reason? Later in the day, the human body releases lower levels of the hormone that .....
Lilly teams up with AC Immune for Alzheimer’s drug pharmaceutical-technology
December 14, 2018
Eli Lilly has signed a licence and collaboration agreement with Swiss biotech AC Immune for the research and development of tau aggregation inhibitor small molecules.....