Growing functioning brain tissue in 3D
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize into a three-dimensional structure similar...
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Capitalizing on a new insight into HIV's strategy for evading antibodies—proteins produced by the immune system to identify and wipe out invading objects such as...
Healthy’ fat tissue could be key to reversing type 2 diabetes
Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research has found. Dr. Axel Kallies...
How are sea anemones so good at producing nerve cells?
A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body. A study published in the...
Scientists find gene vital to central nervous system development
Scientists have identified a gene that helps regulate how well nerves of the central nervous system are insulated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine...
Pacemakers with Internet connection
The healthcare sector is not escaping from the revolution in information and communications technologies. Thanks to the latest advances in microelectronics and communications technologies, it...
Brain region vulnerable to aging is larger in those with longevity gene variant
People who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with longevity also have larger volumes in a front part of the brain involved...
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