How neurons lose their connections
Strengthening and weakening the connections between neurons, known as synapses, is vital to the brain’s development and everyday function. One ...
Stimulus plan?
It may sound unusual, but it’s true: In recent years a growing number of people have been hooking their heads ...
Study finds altered brain chemistry in people with autism
MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a ...
Music in the brain
Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception. Now, for the first time, ...
How one gene contributes to two diseases
Although it is known that psychiatric disorders have a strong genetic component, untangling the web of genes contributing to each ...
Protein imaging reveals detailed brain architecture
MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new way to classify neurons by labeling and imaging the proteins found ...
Singing in the brain
Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers. ...
How the brain processes emotions
Some mental illnesses may stem, in part, from the brain’s inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. For example, ...
Scientists reveal endocardial origin of liver vasculature
On March 29, Nature Genetics published a research article entitled “Genetic lineage tracing identifies endocardial origin of liver vasculature”, from ...
Targeting the gut microbiome to fight heart disease
Washington, DC – April 5, 2016 – A compound found in red wine, resveratrol, reduces the risk of heart disease ...
Argentinian researchers develop trap for mosquito that transmits Zika
Argentinian researchers from the Centro de Investigaciones de Plagas e Insecticidas have developed a new trap that can be used ...
Inflammatory factors cause damage to back of eye following keratoprosthesis implantation
BOSTON – Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the ...
A key gene in the development of celiac disease has been found in ‘junk’ DNA
Credit: A. Castellanos Coeliac disease is a chronic, immunological disease that is manifested as intolerance to gluten proteins present in ...
Scientists discover how Chinese medicinal plant makes anti-cancer compound
Credit: Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences New research led by Professor Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre has ...
Is a popular painkiller hampering our ability to notice errors?
It’s been known for more than a century that acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but according to a new U ...
A newly discovered way for cells to die
Some cells are meant to live, and some are meant to die. The linker cell of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny ...
Application of novel alignment-free sequence descriptors in Zika virus characterization
The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for ...
Zika virus may now be tied to another brain disease
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Zika virus may be associated with an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain’s myelin similar ...
UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly
Credit: Tara Brown Photography/University of Washington Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial ...
Methods used to create textiles also could help manufacture human tissues
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Tissue engineering is a process that uses novel biomaterials seeded with stem cells to grow and replace ...
