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...
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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...
Stomach acid-powered micromotors get their first test in a living animal
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have shown that a micromotor fueled by stomach acid can take a bubble-powered ride inside a mouse....
From Fiction To Science
When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a wound that severs a salamander’s...
Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks
Your brain transmits information about your current location and memories of past locations over the same neural pathways using different frequencies of a rhythmic electrical...
Using stem cells to grow new hair
In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new hair. The study represents the...
Biological safety lock for genetically modified organisms
The creation of genetically modified and entirely synthetic organisms continues to generate excitement as well as worry. Scientists have genetically recoded a strain of E....
How a cancer-causing virus blocks human immune response
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a type of cancer-causing virus called...
Potential New Drug Target for Lung Cancer
A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated metabolic programming may lead to...
New device allows deaf people to ‘hear with their tongue’
Cochlear implants are expensive, invasive and are occasionally unsuitable for elderly patients - so scientists are working on a device which sends small electric shocks...
Stem cells can become anything – but not without this protein
How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they "decide" to give up that...
How cancer turns good cells to the dark side
Cancer uses a little-understood element of cell signaling to hijack the communication process and spread, according to Rice University researchers. A new computational study by...
The brain’s electrical alphabet
The brain’s alphabet is a mix of rate and precise timing of electrical pulses: the observation was made by researchers at the International School for...
