Did you know that your brain processes information in a hierarchy? As you are reading this page, the signal coming in through your eyes enters your brain through the thalamus, which organizes it. That information then goes ...
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Researchers have shown that when parts of a genome known as enhancers are missing, the heart works abnormally, a finding that bolsters the importance of DNA segments once considered "junk" because they do not code for specific ...
Oct 5, 2016
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To treat or not to treat? That is the question researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hope to answer with a new advance that could help doctors and their cancer patients ...
Aug 31, 2016
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Many neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, are marked by impaired motor skills. In addition, growing evidence suggests there's a link between some neurodegenerative diseases and body ...
Nov 11, 2015
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The vast majority of the thousands of chemicals in our homes and workplaces have not been tested to determine if they cause cancer. That's because today's options are lacking. Rodent tests are too slow, and cell culture tests ...
Jun 25, 2015
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In the on-going search for a better understanding of how the brain and central nervous system develop, a potentially powerful new tool could soon be available. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Mar 25, 2015
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low-dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent ...
Mar 10, 2015
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In recent years it has been established that copper plays an essential role in the health of the human brain. Improper copper oxidation has been linked to several neurological disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ...
Nov 26, 2014
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Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have learned new details about how an important tumor-suppressing protein, called p53, binds to the human genome. As with ...
Nov 24, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Every day, some of your cells stop dividing, and that's a good thing. Cells that proliferate indefinitely are immortal, an essential early step in the development of most malignant tumors.
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