Scientists discover new mechanism controlling brain size
Credit: Assist. Prof. Canan Doganli, University of Copenhagen Under the leadership of Professor Lars Allan Larsen and Professor Søren Tvorup ...
Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology
Reversal of glial scar tissue back to neuronal tissue through neuroregenerative gene therapy
Credit: Jinan University Brain or spinal cord injury often results in glial scar tissue that is correlated to neural functional ...
Dartmouth professor awarded $400k grant to conduct research on space station
Zi Chen to investigate forces behind early embryonic developmentCredit: Dartmouth Engineering Dartmouth Engineering Professor Zi Chen has received a $400,000 ...
Organoids produce embryonic heart
Credit: Giuliana Rossi (EPFL) There was a time when the idea of growing organs in the lab was the stuff ...
3D printed stents that treat inflammation
Credit: Dong-Woo Cho (POSTECH) Radiation esophagitis, characterized by the inflammation of the esophagus, is the most common acute adverse effect ...
USask launches first study on effects of smoked cannabis on brain development
Credit: Robert Laprairie/USask SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) pharmacologist Robert Laprairie will use a Brain Canada research grant to ...
WEHI joins forces with World Health Organisation to combat anaemia
Credit: WEHI, Australia The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated Australian medical research institute WEHI as the WHO Collaborating Centre ...
Cockroach mating habits and developmental features help uncover insect evolution
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that a "lost" family of cockroaches may be the missing link in the ...
Shifts in water temperatures affect eating habits of larval tuna at critical life stage
Credit: Cedric Guigand NEWPORT, Ore. - Small shifts in ocean temperature can have significant effects on the eating habits of ...
Researchers identify key marker to help speed development of CMV vaccines
The finding provides a surrogate for testing the effectiveness of vaccine candidatesCredit: Jennifer Jenks, Duke University School of Medicine DURHAM, ...
Hormone differences
UD researcher studies how birth experience shapes developmentCredit: Graphic illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase It is an experience we all ...
Crown-of-thorns eat themselves out of house and home
Credit: Morgan Pratchett. A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their ...
What’s for dinner? Dolphin diet study
Ecology of NZ Hauraki Gulf shows signs of strainCredit: Cetacean Ecology Research Group (CERG), Massey University More evidence has emerged ...
Genomic data ‘catches corals in the act’ of speciation and adaptation
Credit: Forsman, et al. (2020) A new study led by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Hawai'i Institute of Marine ...
Just like us – Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us
Neanderthals introduced solid food in their children's diet at around 5-6 months of ageCredit: ERC project SUCCESS, University of Bologna, ...
Beetle larvae think with a brain ‘under construction’
Researchers at the University of Göttingen compare the development of beetle brains with that of fliesCredit: M Farnworth In the ...
A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain
People born without a corpus callosum do not have a bridge between the two cerebral hemispheres. Neuroscientists from UNIGE have ...
Children with asymptomatic brain bleeds as newborns show normal brain development at age 2
Study finds that neurodevelopmental scores and gray matter volumes at age two years did not differ between children who had ...
Collecting sperm from Covid-19 patients
How does Covid-19 affect sperm and thus the next generation´s immune system? Norwegian researchers are collecting sperm to find the ...
Study finds seabird ecosystem shift in Falkland islands
Credit: Dulcinea Groff Seabird populations in the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean are facing direct and indirect impacts of climate ...