Tissue engineering holds enormous promise for millions suffering from debilitating diseases Scientists at Emory University and engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating to imitate nature by using advanced techniques of molecular genetics and cell biology to incorporate living cells with synthetic and natural materials. The resulting tissue-engineered substitutes have the potential of repairing or replacing tissue damaged by disease or injury. Over the next decade these products are expected to gradually replace strictly artificial materials as the next generation of biomedical implants. The losses of Parkinson's disease differ for each patient and multiply and intensify over the years. Patients often live with it for decades.
Drugs can offer relief for years and then fail for a variety of reasons.
But Emory University researchers and clinicians are making strides toward finding long-term strategies to deal with this degenerative disease, which affects more than 1 million people in the United States alone. Emory researchers find Fragile X mutation has multiple negative effects on neuronal proteins Scientists from Emory University recently announced the discovery of important new clues to the molecular basis of Fragile X syndrome, the most frequent cause of inherited mental retardation in humans. The findings, which identify additional proteins that are affected by a mutation in the Fragile X gene, could lead to new targets for drug therapy as well as help explain numerous related psychiatric and developmental problems. Women abused as children show elevated hormonal responses to stress that may add to risk of adult psychiatric disorders Women who were sexually or physically abused as children show significantly elevated hormonal responses to stress compared to women with no history of childhood abuse, according to a study by researchers at the Emory University Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders. Reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the findings suggest that childhood abuse is associated with persistent sensitization or hyperactivity of the pituitary-adrenal and autonomic stress response, which in turn may contribute to greater vulnerability to psychiatric disorders in adulthood.