SearchPast Issues April 24, 2008

Come dancing Medical and occupational therapy students held a "senior prom" April 12 to facilitate social interactions between the school and the older adult community. Alzheimer's plaque buildup reduced by drug The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer's brain plaques, researchers found. Deadly genetic disease stopped before zebrafish birth School of Medicine research could lead to the prevention up to one-fifth of birth defects in humans caused by genetic mutations. Drug prevents abnormalities that lead to seizures School of Medicine scientists have used a drug to prevent the brain abnormalities that lead to seizures in mice with an inherited form of epilepsy. DBBS to mark 35th anniversary, 1,000th graduate The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences will mark two milestones May 1-2: its 35th anniversary and graduating its 1,000th student.