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Max Planck Florida’s Sunposium 2017 Neural Circuits Conference
Once again, several of the world’s most esteemed neuroscience researchers will gather in Palm Beach County to speak at the...
Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin
On August 7, 2016, the New York Times Magazine published “The Brain That Couldn’t Remember,” an article adapted from the...
New method opens up the possibility of customizing breast milk for premature children
About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child’s...
Could suppression of Gαq/11 signaling be a promising target for treating bone loss?
Intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment (iPTH) and mechanical loading through exercise have both been shown to stimulate bone formation. These osteoanabolic...
New breakthrough in understanding dystonia
Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven have managed to get a clearer view on the roots of dystonia, a neurological disorder that...
New research supports the removal of drug use as a restriction to hepatitis C treatment
New, highly curative hepatitis C therapy is both safe and effective as a treatment option for people who inject drugs...
Where there’s smoke — and a mutation — there may be an evolutionary edge for humans
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps...
Study may lead to better breast cancer drugs
Biomedical scientists have revealed the inner workings of a group of proteins that help to switch critical genes on and...
How to engineer a stronger immune system
Photo Credit: Elisabeth Fall SAN FRANCISCO, CA–With a trick of engineering, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes improved a potential weapon...
Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for 6 million Americans
Boston, MA – Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems–polyfluoroalkyl and...
Cascade of events leading to prion disease described
Philadelphia, PA, August 9, 2016 – Prion diseases are deadly neurodegenerative disorders in humans and animals that are characterized by...
HIV is not a super-spreader of drug-resistant tuberculosis
While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic fuels tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks, it does not drive the development and transmission of...
Discovery could help treatments for sickle cell disease
An interdisciplinary, international group of researchers has found new biophysical markers that could help improve the understanding of treatments for...
Scientific serendipity yields new neuron type in mouse retina
In the retina of mice, a new type of neuron that falls outside century-old classifications has been discovered. Neurons are...
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