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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID's origins reviewed: Lab leak or natural spillover?

Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested mystery.

Neuroscience

Mapping the mind: New framework links brainwaves to individual cognitive states

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and the capacity for creativity ...

Medical research news

Psychology & Psychiatry

Retinal neurons provide insight into schizophrenia disease mechanisms

Researchers analyzed the genetic connection of retinal cells and several neuropsychiatric disorders. By combining different datasets, they found that schizophrenia risk genes were associated with specific neurons in the retina. ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Fluorescent probes illuminate cholesterol and Alzheimer's research

The search for answers to Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders remains one of the most pressing goals in brain research. Maciej J. Stawikowski, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry ...

Oncology & Cancer

Key enzyme identified as potential target for cancer immunotherapy

Scientists from A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have uncovered that a key enzyme—P4HA1 prolyl hydroxylase, is strongly induced in CD8+ T cells in solid cancer, the primary immune cells involved in combating ...