Science news articles about 'cause paralysis'

... and 40 people in every 100,000 are affected by the condition, which causes paralysis on one side of the face. Paralysis is usually temporary, but a third of people suffer ongoing problems including ...

... worms lived through the paralyze-unparalyze cycle. Scientists were not sure how the switch causes paralysis. The study demonstrates that photoswitches may have great potential in turning photodynamic ...

... the right side of the body, and vice versa. Thus, a stroke on the left side of the brain can cause paralysis on the right side of the body. In such a patient, anti-nogo would, it's hoped, spur the ...

... endings in the brain and extremities, inhibiting their ability to release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and causing paralysis. In an important 1995 discovery, John Middlebrook, Ph.D., of the ...

... anencephaly. Spina bifida affects 1,500 to 2,000 babies born in the United States annually, causing paralysis, spine abnormalities, incontinence and other problems. Anencephaly occurs when ...

... molecule, a mouse was made to help understand nervous system diseases that impair feeling and cause paralysis of the arms and legs in humans. Scientists have created a mouse to help understand human ...

... anticoagulant in the salivary glands of both species has become a much more extreme compound that causes paralysis and death in prey that is bitten." In the first part of the study, Aminetzach and ...