New data on an uncharted dark spot of the mouse brain map reveals how connections between brain cells form networks…
Magdalena Kegel
Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Articles by Magdalena Kegel
New research from University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière at Sorbonne University, France indicates that couples at risk of transmitting Huntington’s disease…
Caregivers of  people with Huntington’s disease describe themselves as invisible patients in a healthcare system they are profoundly disappointed with,…
Groundbreaking research from the University of Copenhagen showed that healthy glial cells, transplanted into the brains of mice in a Huntington’s disease…
A protein, known for its role in the kidneys, has been identified by University of Louisville scientists as a…
Scientists at the University of Guelph in Canada, have concluded in a recent study, that exercise can increase the…
Converging evidence suggests that neurodegenerative conditions, such as Huntington’s disease, are caused by persistent inflammatory immune processes that ultimately kill…
Beneficial effects of the investigational neuroprotective drug olesoxime have mainly been attributed to its effects on mitochondria, but new research…
Exemplar Genetics announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mini pig for…
Fungicides Might Contribute to Neurodegenerative Disease Development in Disease Like Huntington’s
Researchers discovered that frequently used fungicides – chemicals used commercially to get rid of fungi in crops – cause the same…