Medical research
Can 'smell' trigger tumors?
How tumors emerge has always been quite a conundrum in the scientific community.
May 25, 2022
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Neuroscience
Study shows that behavioral engagement could affect hippocampal place codes
The hippocampus is a region of the brain known to the associated with memory, learning, spatial navigation and emotion. In 1971, neuroscientists discovered that the hippocampus influences spatial navigation through the formation ...
Medical research
Life after death for the human eye: Vision scientists revive light-sensing cells in organ donor eyes
Scientists have revived light-sensing neuron cells in organ donor eyes and restored communication between them as part of a series of discoveries that stand to transform brain and vision research.
May 11, 2022
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Medical research
New tool to create hearing cells lost in aging
Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and inner ear sensory cells—essential ...
May 4, 2022
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Neuroscience
Neural pathway key to sensation of pleasant touch identified
Studying mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide—a chemical messenger that carries signals between nerve cells—that transmit the sensation ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Neuroscience
An ocean in your brain: Interacting brain waves key to how we process information
For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes information through traditional circuits, whereby data zips straight from one cell to another. While that model is still accurate, a new study ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers develop injectable microtissue to preserve muscle function in rats with severed sciatic nerves
Researchers engineered the first injectable microtissue containing motor and sensory neurons encased in protective tissue, called tissue engineered neuromuscular interfaces (TE-NMIs). The TE-NMI neurons provide a source of ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Neuroscience
How the gut communicates with the brain
How the 'second brain' – the enteric nervous system in our gut—communicates with our first brain has been one of the most challenging questions faced by enteric neuroscientists, until now.
Mar 23, 2022
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Medical research
Piezo1 possible key to supporting muscle regeneration in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
One protein, Piezo1, is key to marshalling muscle stem cells' unique shapes and response to injuries, but it is in low supply in those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to a team at the Perelman School of Medicine ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Perception study may explain promising depression therapy
Rather than constantly repainting a new canvas with a picture of the surrounding world each time it takes in information, the human brain appears to build a working model supported by predictions constantly checked and rechecked ...
Jan 31, 2022
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