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Neuroscience

Neurons linked to empathy: Study reveals brain cells that help us understand others

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan Cao, Ph.D., an instructor ...

Neuroscience

Machine learning sheds light on how the human brain perceives feeling

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, co-authored by Edward A. Vessel, the Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor of Computational ...

Medical research news

Immunology

SMYD3 enzyme found to suppress antiviral immune response

Interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) is a key transcription factor in the type I interferon signaling. Its activation must be tightly controlled to efficiently activate innate immunity while avoiding its overactivation. ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Cholesterol metabolism byproduct linked to Parkinson's disease

Researchers led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China have discovered a cholesterol metabolite that plays a critical role in the development of Parkinson's disease in mice. Published in the journal PLOS Biology, the ...

Health

Tweets and AI models reveal heat stroke risks in urban areas

Heat stroke poses a significant health risk, especially during extreme temperature conditions. As global temperatures rise due to climate change, the frequency and severity of heat waves have increased, putting vulnerable ...

Sleep disorders

Scientists develop 'smart pajamas' to monitor sleep disorders

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable "smart pajamas" that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome equipment or a visit to a specialist sleep clinic.

HIV & AIDS

HIV protein switch may help virus squeeze into host cell nucleus

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its inner core into the host cell's nuclear membrane. The findings, by a University of Pittsburgh team ...