Celldex shares cratered by 30% after Pfizer dumped its partnership to develop a new brain cancer vaccine.
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Mitchell may be one of the first to benefit from a new brain cancer vaccine, now in midstage testing at Pfizer and Avant Immunotherapeutics.
So you might think that doctors would welcome a new brain wave monitor, made by Aspect Medical Systems, that indicates whether a patient is awake or asleep.
"This is beginning to open a new wedge into brain science, " Ropper said.
The findings could have promising implications for diseases that involve a neurogenesis deficit -- in other words, a lack of new brain cells being born -- which happens in conditions such as depression, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the authors said.
Swanson, who was inspired to go into cancer research after her father died of lung cancer, hopes her simulation will lead to a new generation of customized brain cancer treatments.
But, in fact, the Cirrus parachute has saved 21 people, including a grandfather and his grandson over Canada's Monashee Mountains, as well as a man who suffered a brain seizure while flying north of New York City.
It could be a team assisting one another by brain storming some new innovative thoughts about a new product they are launching.
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Prince Harry has opened the new headquarters of a brain injury charity supported by his mother, during his first official visit to Nottingham.
There were 113 cases of definite or probable vCJD in the UK between 1996, when doctors distinguished it as a new form of the rare brain-wasting disease CJD, and 3 December.
The brain has to deal with a large amount of new information, and this would be stressful and overwhelming if only a limited part of the brain were used to handle it.
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The experiment also shows that a new sensory input can be interpreted by a region of the brain that normally does something else (without having to "hijack" the function of that brain region).
Making and correcting errors is important to how the brain adapts to a new task.
Pickens does all the right things to keep a brain healthy: trying new activities and exercising regularly.
Our inventions will always be shadowed by uncertainty, by the serendipity of brain cells making a new connection.
The project will use supercomputer-based models and simulations to reconstruct a virtual human brain to develop new treatments for neurological conditions.
Men and boys with autism have fewer neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California in San Diego and the MIND Institute at UC Davis.
" "Doing something enjoyable gets brain cells firing, creates a new paradigm, brings in new people and improves morale and overall well-being.
Each cube has an electronic brain that holds a blueprint for building new towers.
Instead, you want to start a new, more sophisticated dialogue, not just between brain and body, but between big brain, little brain, and body.
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When news broke that Disney had acquired Lucasfilm and would be making new Star Wars movies, a part of my brain lit up with the excitement I felt in 1977 and has been sparking every since.
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There is even a new business discipline, neuroleadership, that promises to use brain science to improve senior management.
The fun part about being patient in a slump is that it gets your brain churning in new ways.
Almost immediately, researchers discovered something new: the first signs of a universal architecture of brain connections underlying most day-to-day neural activity.
For her pioneering approach to biomaterial development to regenerate damaged nerve tissue and for her development of a new method to deliver drugs to the spinal cord and brain.
"They are trying to bring something new and a little different to the understanding of how the brain works, " said neuroscientist Stephen Smith at Stanford University Medical School.
Each rat had, in effect, grown a new nervous system which ran from the motor cortexes of its brain, down its spinal column, past the breaks in its spine and into its back legs.
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The constant threat of IEDs has meant a new generation of service members with multiple traumatic injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury.
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