Neuroscience
'Parts list' for inner-ear hair cells advances understanding of deafness and hearing loss
Tiny hair cells in the inner ear play an outsized role.
May 8, 2015
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Harvard Medical School
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
The aging brain needs REST: Research implicates new player in Alzheimer's, other dementias
Why do neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's affect only the elderly? Why do some people live to be over 100 with intact cognitive function while others develop dementia decades earlier?
Mar 19, 2014
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify new mechanisms by which new neurons sharpen memories
When it comes to the billions of neurons in your brain, what you see at birth is what get—except in the hippocampus. Buried deep underneath the folds of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the hippocampus continue ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Genetics
Loss of epigenetic information can drive aging, restoration can reverse it
An international study 13 years in the making demonstrates for the first time that degradation in the way DNA is organized and regulated—known as epigenetics—can drive aging in an organism, independently of changes to ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Medical research
How the germ behind flesh-eating disease hijacks neurons to avoid immune destruction
The germ that causes garden-variety strep throat gets most of its bad rap for the misery of swollen tonsils and missed school days, but this wily pathogen has a lesser known, darker side.
May 10, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New cell model of most common form of Alzheimer's points to molecular causes, drug target
Harvard Medical School geneticists have created a new model-in-a-dish of sporadic Alzheimer's disease, which accounts for more than 90 percent of Alzheimer's cases and tends to strike people without a family history of the ...
Jan 29, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New study reveals how the brain organizes information about odors
The premiere of the movie Scent of Mystery in 1960 marked a singular event in the annals of cinema: the first, and last, motion picture debut "in glorious Smell-O-Vision." Hoping to wow moviegoers with a dynamic olfactory ...
Jul 2, 2020
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Medications
Repurposing a familiar drug for COVID-19
For the past year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to engulf the globe, fueled in part by novel variants and the uneven distribution of vaccines. Every day, hundreds of thousands of new COVID-19 cases and thousands ...
Nov 17, 2021
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify a new mechanism that regulates the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in mice
The blood-brain barrier plays an essential role in protecting the central nervous system from harmful bacteria, toxins, and other blood-borne pathogens.
Mar 15, 2022
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Diabetes
Better understanding of glucosamine action may help to avoid birth defects in diabetic pregnancies
Most pregnant women with well-controlled diabetes give birth to healthy children. But their babies run much higher risks of birth defects than babies born to women without diabetes, because very early in embryonic development, ...
Jul 27, 2016
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