The outer layer of the brain, known as the cortex, is made of different types of neurons. Neuroscience studies suggest that these different neuron types have distinct functions, yet for a long time this was difficult to ascertain, ...
Zebrafish have been widely used in developmental biology, immunology, neurobiology, and drug screening, showing significant superiority in large-scale heterogeneous studies of development and drug effects due to their small ...
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Researcher Pilar Baldominos, who is currently pursuing her Universitat Politècnica de València Ph.D. at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has completed a study on the defense mechanisms used by some tumor ...
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Neuropeptides play fundamental roles in modulating cellular and circuit functions within the brain. One such signaling molecule—orexin—regulates arousal and wakefulness, and its failure can lead to constant daytime sleepiness ...
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CD4+ T cells are important parts of the immune system and play a key role in defending the body against pathogens. As they possess a great variety of defense mechanisms against HIV in their resting state, they are infected ...
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are thought to have great potential in the field of regenerative medicine, which has the aim of restoring damaged tissues. However, not much was known about in vivo plasticity of them—until ...
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An aggressive type of cancer has provided a team of researchers supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation with an answer to the question of which tumor cells are at risk of spreading.
Jul 14, 2021
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report the formation of human cells containing a green fluorescent protein or GFP (one of the most important proteins in biology and fluorescence imaging) genetically ...
May 18, 2021
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IL-11 is known to promote the development of colorectal cancer in humans and mice, but when and where IL-11 is expressed during cancer development is unknown. "To address these questions experimentally, we generated reporter ...
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COVID-19, the disease caused by the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is primarily regarded as a respiratory infection. Yet the virus has also become known for affecting other parts of the body in ways not as well understood, ...
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