Zebrafish brain shows that new neurons are formed in the brain in a coordinated manner Using Zebrafish, researchers from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Faculty of Life Sciences of Tel Aviv University have developed an advanced simulation of a key process in the brain—the activation ... May 11, 2021 0 39
Bioengineering approach for functional muscle regeneration When trauma, illness, or injury causes significant muscle loss, reconstructive procedures for bioengineering functional skeletal muscles can fall short, resulting in permanent impairments. May 11, 2021 0 46
For the brain, timing is everything For decades the dominant approach to understanding the brain has been to measure how many times individual neurons activate during particular behaviors. In contrast to this "rate code," a more recent hypothesis proposes that ... May 11, 2021 0 3
How to predict severe influenza in hospitalized patients Published today in Nature Communications, the team from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), Alfred Health and Monash University sought to understand which patients would recover quickly ... May 11, 2021 0 6
In 'minibrains,' hindering key enzyme by different amounts has opposite growth effects Like many around the world, the lab of Professor Mriganka Sur in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT has embraced the young technology of cerebral organoids, or 'minibrains,' for studying human brain development ... May 11, 2021 0 21
Inhibition of proteins activated by nitric oxide reverses aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Centro de BiologĂa Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM-CSIC-UAM) have discovered that the nitric oxide (NO) pathway is overactivated in the aortas of mice and ... May 11, 2021 0 22
Study shows how our brains sync hearing with vision Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they ... May 11, 2021 0 74
Boosting body heat production: A new approach for treating obesity A receptor that helps conserve energy when food is scarce may be the key to a safer approach to treating diet-induced obesity, research led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has revealed. May 11, 2021 0 26
AIDS virus used in gene therapy to fix 'bubble baby' disease A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday. May 11, 2021 0 5
China issues total ban on synthetic cannabinoids China on Tuesday said it will add all synthetic cannabinoids to its list of banned drugs, in what it described as a first in the world, to curb their manufacturing, trafficking and abuse. May 11, 2021 0 2