Neuroscience

Scientists reveal structures of neurotransmitter transporter

Neurons talk to each other using chemical signals called neurotransmitters. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have drawn on structural biology expertise to determine structures of vesicular monoamine transporter ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

High metabolism is an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, finds study

An early phase in the process of developing Alzheimer's disease is a metabolic increase in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, report researchers from Karolinska Institutet in a study published in Molecular Psychiatry. ...

Inflammatory disorders

A promising target to fight inflammatory bowel diseases

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, arise when there is a dysregulation of the cell signaling pathways controlling the maintenance of homeostasis in the gut, leading to a chronic ...

Medical research

Why tuberculosis bacteria form long chains

A researcher team from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne led by Dr. Vivek Thacker now group leader at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital have studied why tuberculosis bacteria form ...

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